Exclusive – Sen. Jim Banks: Trump Is First President Bold Enough to Call China Our Enemy
Donald Trump is the first modern president bold enough to call China our enemy, Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) told Breitbart News.

Donald Trump is the first modern president bold enough to call China our enemy, Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) told Breitbart News.

President Donald Trump’s “Donroe Doctrine” essentially told China that it is not welcome in our backyard, Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) told Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle on Thursday during an event on the threat of China.

Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) on Thursday said during a Breitbart News policy event that the coronavirus pandemic proved the urgency with which the United States needs to bring drug manufacturing back from China.

Reflection, an AI startup supported by chip manufacturer Nvidia, is currently in discussions to raise $2.5 billion at a valuation of $25 billion, with plans to take on China’s open source approach to artificial intelligence popularized by DeepSeek.

Breitbart News hosts a policy event discussing the current and emerging threats presented by China and the Chinese Communist Party on Thursday, March 26.

Are there administration insiders profiting from knowing news about the war with Iran before the public does? Recent news stories from the world of “prediction markets” seem to indicate that may in fact be happening.

President Donald Trump announced plans to meet with Chinese dictator Xi Jinping in Beijing, China, in May, adding that he was looking “forward to spending time with” him.

Two Chinese pharmaceutical companies and six Chinese citizens have been indicted for allegedly supplying chemical precursors used to make fentanyl to be smuggled into the United States. According to FBI Director Kash Patel, the indictments handed down by a federal grand jury in Ohio were connected to Operation Box Cutter and revealed an alliance between the Chinese companies and Mexico’s Gulf Cartel.

The FCC has prohibited the import of consumer routers manufactured outside the United States, effectively blocking the majority of networking devices from entering the American market. The danger of Chinese hackers to everyday Americans has caused the government to label foreign-made routers an “unacceptable risk” to the security of the nation.

A survey found that 87 percent of battleground voters remain highly concerned about the prospect of America having to import agricultural inputs from China. The 2026 Farm Bill aims to address this major concern.

The Chinese government, through its state media arms, objected on Monday to Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae’s visit to the White House last week in which she appeared to enthusiastically enjoy talks with President Donald Trump and the formalities of the welcome she received.
A video showing seven dogs making their way home after escaping from thieves in northeastern China has accumulated over 230 million views, with many fans expressing admiration for the loyalty and courage displayed by the canines.

The International Trade Administration Commission of South Africa (ITAC) announced on Friday that it will impose heavy tariffs on Chinese steel, after an investigation found evidence of product dumping.

Sony Pictures and Chinese regime-linked corporation Pop Mart on Thursday announced that they are in the early states of co-developing a film based on the based Labubu blind-box plush toy, which China has used to improve its global image.

The Chinese Communist Party published a national AI gameplan that specifies blurring the lines between the civil and military to achieve Beijing’s global technological supremacy, author Wynton Hall details in his upcoming book, Code Red: The Left, the Right, China, and the Race to Control AI (HarperCollins).

Federal prosecutors have charged three individuals connected to server manufacturer Super Micro Computer, including the tech giant’s co-founder, with illegally diverting billions of dollars worth of Nvidia-powered AI servers to China in violation of U.S. export controls.

Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae headed to Washington on Thursday for what she anticipated would be a “very difficult” meeting with President Donald Trump on the war in Iran.

American A.I. and robotics companies are reportedly asking Congress to impose curbs on Chinese robotics manufacturers, due to their unfair business practices and the security risks they pose, Chinese media complained this week.

Wynton Hall, Breitbart News social media director and author of Code Red: The Left, the Right, China, and the Race to Control AI, explained on Steve Bannon’s War Room show that America can beat China without becoming a “techno-authoritarian” surveillance state.

Wynton Hall’s new book Code Red: The Left, The Right, and The Race to Control AI includes a sobering look at the rapidly evolving danger of autonomous weapons, which look to change warfare in the Twenty-First Century as profoundly as nuclear weapons did in the Twentieth — and it will be far more difficult to keep the AI genie bottled than it was to restrain the proliferation of nuclear bombs.

Muslims in Britain have a more favourable view of China, Russia, and Iran than the United States, a poll has found.

China’s Taiwan Affairs Office on Wednesday made a public offer of energy stability for Taiwan if it would agree to “reunification,” or peacefully submitting to rule by the Chinese Communist Party.

The hype around artificial intelligence (AI) is so thick and constant that people are fatigued by it. Unfortunately, though, that fatigue will allow bad actors to dominate the race to AI dominance, which would be a very bad thing.

The Chinese government is scrambling to end hostilities between Pakistan and Afghanistan, two countries where Beijing has made enormous financial and political investments — including the crown jewel of China’s Belt and Road infrastructure project, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) said that China is probably thinking “now’s a good time for me to go in and take over Taiwan or Russia’s saying don’t talk to me about Ukraine,

The Taliban junta in Afghanistan said on Tuesday that at least 400 people were killed and 250 injured by a Pakistani airstrike that hit a 2,000-bed drug rehabilitation hospital in Kabul.

President Donald Trump has decided to delay his trip to China by “a month or so,” reportedly due to the Iran war.

The Taiwan Defense Ministry said on Sunday that Chinese military aircraft are once again flying near the island after a two-week pause.

North Korean communist dictator Kim Jong-un declared that the country’s enemies – namely, America and South Korea – would soon understand “destructive power of tactical nuclear weapon” [sic] during a rocket launch this weekend, state media reported on Sunday.

President Donald Trump suggested on Sunday that he might delay his planned trip to China due to the Iran war, especially if China refuses to help secure the Strait of Hormuz against Iranian terror attacks on civilian tankers and cargo ships.

ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, is building significant computing infrastructure using top-tier Nvidia processors in Southeast Asia as part of its strategy to compete globally in AI development. This is one technique China is using to get around U.S. AI export controls.

CODE RED author Wynton Hall tells the Daily Mail in an interview published Sunday that China has disguised its “data vacuum” AI espionage tools as popular apps like TikTok and DeepSeek. According to Hall, users of these “Trojan Horse” apps are “effectively surrendering their privacy and security to the Chinese regime.”

Sen. Banks is sounding the alarm about Chinese training in the U.S. to become pilots, a fact first revealed in Peter Schweizer’s book “The Invisible Coup.”

Commercial vessels sailing near the Strait of Hormuz are reportedly identifying themselves as Chinese-owned or crewed by Chinese nationals, in an effort to avoid terrorist attacks from Iran.

A delegation of The People’s Forum, a far-left organization linked with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda efforts, visited Cuba this week to express “solidarity” with the Cuban communist Castro regime against the United States.

Chen Wei, a deputy to China’s rubber-stamp National People’s Congress, on Wednesday suggested teaching mandatory sex ed classes to kindergarten children in a desperate effort to shore up China’s collapsing birthrates.

Iran’s top diplomat at the United Nations declared Thursday, “We are not going to close the Strait of Hormuz.”

China and Russia on Thursday expressed their displeasure with the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for condemning Iran’s unprovoked attacks on neighboring countries.

A Trump administration official told Breitbart News that Chinese officials have now threatened to detain Panamanian-flagged vessels in China, something that could disrupt global commerce and represents retaliation against Panama for recent developments taking control of the two ports on either end of the Panama Canal out of the hands of a Hong Kong company controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Huge gas lines have been reported in China, and Hong Kong residents are joining the logjams by rushing across the border to fill their tanks.
