Federal authorities said they were forced to fire at a boat packed with 25 illegal migrants from China who were hoping to reach the shores of Florida, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
The Coast Guard caught the group about a mile south of Key Biscayne, Florida on June 10, DHS said. The migrants initially failed to comply with federal authorities&#8217; orders to stop, forcing the Coast Guard to deploy warning shots, which were ineffective.
The Coast Guardsmen then fired a &#8220;disabling&#8221; shot that stopped the boat without any reported injuries, according to DHS.
&#8220;By land or sea, our borders are CLOSED,&#8221; DHS said in an<a href="https://x.com/DHSgov/status/2067314866671493123"> X post</a> regarding the interception. &#8220;This sends a clear message to ANY illegal alien attempting to enter the United States: don’t even think about it.&#8221;
The Coast Guard crew transported the group of Chinese nationals for further processing. Authorities also seized their boat and transported it to the Coast Guard station in Miami Beach.
“Our Coast Guard crews, working closely with our local, state, and federal maritime law enforcement partners, remain vigilant in detecting and deterring unlawful maritime migration ventures,” Lieutenant Matthew Ross, commanding officer, Coast Guard Station Miami Beach, said.
“Anyone considering one of these dangerous voyages should understand that they are risking their lives at sea and can expect to be interdicted and repatriated,&#8221; Ross said.
The encounter follows an <a href="https://www.news.uscg.mil/Press-Releases/Article/4516342/correction-coast-guard-interdicts-17-aliens-near-sunset-cliffs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">incident</a> off the coast of San Diego, where the Coast Guard caught a group of 17 suspected illegal immigrant trying to reach the United States by boat. Coast Guard airmen spotted the vessel at around 1:18 a.m. on Sunday southwest of Point Loma.
A boat crew then responded and boarded the boat, where they found 10 claiming Mexican nationals, four claiming Guatemalan nationals, and two claiming Salvadoran nationals, along with one unaccompanied minor claiming Guatemalan.
The Coast Guard brought the migrants aboard one of their boats before handing them over to Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
On June 7, the Coast Guard <a href="https://www.news.uscg.mil/Press-Releases/Article/4514532/coast-guard-interdicts-9-aliens-near-coronado-island-calif/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interdicted</a> nine Mexican illegal immigrants near Coronado Island, California. The group was transferred to the custody of Border Patrol.
Coast Guard Capt. Jason Hagen, who is the southwest district chief of enforcement, told <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-cartels-are-forced-to-shift-tactics-after-trump-crushed-their-human-smuggling-empire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire</a> in November that authorities were observing an uptick in smuggling interdictions.
“As you lock down the land border, the cartels will need to make their money, so they push to the maritime, to the water side. And, unfortunately, there is no border wall in the ocean; we’re challenged with the tyranny of distance,” Hagen said at the time.

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Elon Musk lost the race to market, with a Shanghai-based startup launching its brain chip technology to the public ahead of Neuralink. 
China’s drug regulator, the National Medical Products Administration, recently approved Neuracle Technology’s brain implant beyond clinical trials, <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/06/07/tech/china-beats-elon-musk-to-launch-worlds-first-commercial-brain-chip/">according</a> to multiple reports. Like Musk’s Neuralink, the coin-size brain implant — called NEO — is designed to help patients who are paralyzed due to spinal cord injuries. 
One of Neuracle Technology’s patients, Dong Hui, was recently <a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/01/1138133/china-world-first-brain-chip/">profiled</a> by MIT Technology Review. After 11 months of using the device, Dong is now able to write his name despite suffering a spinal cord injury in a car accident six years ago. Before receiving the implant, Dong could barely move his arms and was unable to use his fingers at all.
NEO sensors are placed on the outside membrane of Dong’s brain, where the signals are transmitted by a connected computer implant that rests on Dong’s skull. Those signals then move a robotic glove on Dong&#8217;s hand, which helps his hand relearn how to accept signals from his brain. 
“On the ninth day of my training, my right hand successfully grabbed a ball without the glove,” Dong told MIT. “That was a miraculous moment.” Dong was one of 36 subjects who had clinical trials conducted with NEO, with 32 of them occurring in the past year. 
A revolutionary technology in its own right, Neuracle Technology has also broken new ground in its rollout under China’s national health insurance system. China is doubling down on its ambition to become the global leader in brain-computer interfaces with the government identifying the technology as one of six strategic sectors critical to the country’s future alongside quantum technology, biomanufacturing, hydrogen and nuclear fusion power, artificial intelligence, and 6G mobile communications. The global brain-computer interface market is projected to reach $1.7 billion by 2035.
According to an Australian researcher, one reason Neuracle Technology may have outpaced competing brain-computer interfaces is its less invasive design. While Neuralink’s implant penetrates the brain’s protective membrane, NEO sits on top of it. Both approaches have advantages and drawbacks. Avoiding penetration of the brain reduces surgical risk, but Neuralink’s approach allows the device to interface directly with individual neurons, potentially enabling a deeper biological connection and more precise signal collection.
While NEO reached the market first, Musk has said that 2026 will be a major year for Neuralink. Currently, Neuralink procedures require opening the brain’s dura mater, the protective outer membrane surrounding the brain. Musk plans to introduce a less invasive technique that would allow electrodes to pass through the dura without removing it — similar to drilling a small hole through a wall to run a wire rather than cutting out an entire section.
He has also announced that Neuralink will significantly expand its clinical trials as the company moves toward large-scale production. 
Other brain chip companies are also attempting to race to the commercial market. Synchron, which is backed by Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, was founded in Australia before moving to the United States. In late 2025, Synchron raised <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-06/neuralink-rival-synchron-raises-200-million-for-brain-implant">$200 million</a> to advance its implant. 
While Neuracle Technology is the most advanced brain-computer interface company in China, it is one of a new wave of startups backed by the Chinese communist government. China announced <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/22/chinas-brain-computer-interface-industry-is-racing-ahead/">$165</a> million to fund startups through research to commercialization, as well as quickly adopting the technology into its national health service.

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The FBI recently took out a massive internet scam network, arresting over 300 people, freeing over 2,000 people from human trafficking, and seizing over $8 billion in cryptocurrency. 
The FBI said last week that it primarily focused on taking down what it <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/fbi-seizes-record-8-billion-182232782.html">calls</a> “scam compounds” in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The scam compounds are typically guarded and filled with trafficked workers who are forced to conduct romance scams and fake investment schemes that target many Americans. Over 2,000 people were freed from the compounds. 
The operation focused on Prince Holding Group, a company in Cambodia. Authorities also took out a criminal compound in Dubai, Myanmar, and Thailand. Altogether, the FBI seized over 127,000 bitcoin from the nine scam compounds, which is over $8 billion, making it the largest crypto seizure in human history.
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The United States worked with Dubai police to arrest 275 people, six of whom will be transported to the United States to face federal charges.
FBI Director Kash Patel, said the major crackdown gives a clear message to scammers across the world.
&#8220;If you target Americans, we will find you, disrupt your network, and bring every available tool of the federal government down on you,” Patel <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/fbi-seizes-record-setting-8-billion-cryptocurrency-amid-intercontinental-scam-compound-crackdown">told</a> Fox News. 

The FBI also took down the &#8220;Democratic Karen Benevolent Army,” an armed militia in Myanmar that has ties to Chinese mobsters and has been engaging in this criminal scam network..
The U.S. seized thousands of smartphones and other office equipment in Thailand, severely crippling the scam infrastructure there.
During the whole operation, the FBI <a href="https://x.com/jacobincambodia/status/2060184532104700246">worked</a> with the Royal Thai police, the Burmese army, Dubai’s police, and some Chinese investigators. The FBI also utilized Elon Musk’s Starlink to take down over 7,000 terminals in Myanmar that criminals were using to facilitate communications.
The FBI’s 2025 &#8220;Internet Crime Report&#8221; <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/cryptocurrency-and-ai-scams-bilk-americans-of-billions">states</a> that Americans have been defrauded of $21 billion in cyber-related crimes, with AI and crypto-related scams being the costliest. 
 
Apprehending these con artists and hackers is difficult as the internet allows them to be scattered across the world, seemingly untouchable by American authorities.

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The <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/rocky-mountain-institute-rmi/">Rocky Mountain Institute</a> (RMI) is still a relatively little-known American climate NGO, but since 2021, they’ve been quietly raking in more than $100 million <a href="https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/742244146">annually</a>.
They’re also big fans of China.
In <a href="https://rmi.org/press-release/chinas-carbon-neutrality-goal-increases-urgency-of-meeting-nations-demand-growth-with-zero-carbon-sources/">2021</a>, RMI complimented China for “responsible global leadership” toward achieving “carbon neutrality before 2060.” Similarly, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) <a href="https://www.nrdc.org/china">boasts</a> that they were the “first international nonprofit to launch a clean energy program in China” and that China now “leads the world in renewable energy installation . . .”
China love also extends to climate policy donors. Billionaire venture capitalist <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/person/john-doerr/">John Doerr</a> has been the chair of the <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/climate-imperative-foundation/">Climate Imperative Foundation</a> since <a href="https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/845024713/202113199349324966/full">2020</a>. In <a href="https://speedandscale.com/newsletter/john-doerr-issues-urgent-call-to-action-for-global-leaders/">April</a> of this year, Doerr celebrated China as the “world’s first electrostate” and praised it for “upending the old carbon-based world order.”
The total truth is less lovely, as is President Xi Jinping’s repressive regime. This China emissions story and many other hypocrisies promoted by our so-called “environmental” movement are exposed in my <a href="https://capitalresearch.org/article/enemies-of-energy/">new report</a>, Enemies of Energy: The Myths, the Movement, and the Money, just released by the Capital Research Center.
In 2005, China and America were each responsible for <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-share-of-co2-emissions?country=CHN~USA">20%</a> of global CO2 emissions. After 20 years of help and praise from the enemies of American energy, China is now cranking out 32% of global CO2 emissions, while the USA has fallen to just 13%.
A major driver of this has been China’s buildout of coal-fired power generation, which is <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-source-and-country?stackMode=absolute&amp;time=1995..latest&amp;country=CHN~USA~OWID_WRL">already 12 times more</a> than that of the U.S., and they’re not done. In January, two months before John Doerr praised Xi’s dictatorship for upending the carbon-based world order, the Financial Times <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/103a731c-91cc-45bc-8769-ee4cadf3ce40?syn-25a6b1a6=1">reported</a> that China was on course to open nearly 100 new coal-fired power stations in 2026 alone.
The decline in American CO2 emissions, as reported in Enemies of Energy, is in large measure due to our switch from coal to <a href="https://www.eia.gov/environment/emissions/co2_vol_mass.php">cleaner-burning</a> natural gas in our electricity generation. Calculated on a <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions-metrics">per-person basis</a>, American carbon emissions haven’t been this low since before our entry into World War II.
But rather than praise this natural gas-driven accomplishment, the anti-energy nonprofits work to impede our gas production. They also oppose coal and oil production. And most hypocritically, they have been working against nuclear power, which produces no emissions at all and is the most reliable electricity fuel we have.
The report is titled Enemies of Energy because this movement, which collects more than $9.3 million per day in revenue, has been trying to halt nearly 90% of the fuel that runs the American economy. Enemies provides lively profiles of the 15 most influential and richest anti-energy NGOs, and their 15 largest known donors. Other examples, in addition to those previously mentioned, include NGOs such as the Sierra Club and the Center for Biological Diversity, and billionaire donors such as Michael Bloomberg and Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
Enemies also provides descriptions of the 10 biggest myths and misconceptions the anti-energy movement uses to promote their agenda.
The profile for the “climate emergency” cites a <a href="https://sealevel.nasa.gov/understanding-sea-level/key-indicators/global-mean-sea-level/">NASA</a> estimate that sea levels have been rising at less than half a centimeter per year since 1993, roughly the thickness of three pennies stacked atop each other. That is not an emergency that justifies radical alteration of the American economy and our energy dominance.
Nearly all of the Enemies promote weather-dependent wind and solar energy in place of reliable sources. The report reveals that these options devour far more real estate than necessary, or what the “environmental” movement used to think of as “the environment.” Among other sources, Enemies uses an <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210430145128/https:/www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-energy-land-use-economy/">April 2021</a> study from Bloomberg Green that showed “solar energy needs 140 times the land area to produce the same kilowatts as a natural gas plant, 47 times more than an emissions-free nuclear plant, and nearly 18 times more than a coal-fired power station.”
Bloomberg’s comparisons were even worse for wind energy.
A section on “plastic pollution” shows the United States is responsible for just 0.25% of the plastic waste <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/ocean-plastics">reaching the ocean</a>, despite producing 25% of the planet’s economic output. Meanwhile, China, the supposed carbon-fighting hero for so many of America’s energy enemies, is responsible for 7.2% of ocean plastic.
That’s 29 times more than the USA, even as China has a much smaller economy.
The major point of Enemies of Energy is that the anti-energy movement is implicitly the enemy of our economy. In addition to our world-beating prosperity, reliable energy fuels the wealth we use to protect the features and creatures we love. If the Enemies get what they want, then we will no longer have what we need and love.
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Ken Braun is managing editor and director of content at the Capital Research Center. He also edits <a href="https://capitalresearch.org/publication/">Capital Research</a> magazine and conducts investigative research and drafts profiles for <a href="https://influencewatch.org/">InfluenceWatch.org</a>.

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Texas authorities caught a group of six Chinese nationals dressed in camouflage as they tried to sneak across the southern border, officials said Wednesday.
Border Patrol agents found the Chinese illegal immigrants Tuesday night among a group of 12 border crossers attempting &#8220;to evade capture on a private ranch&#8221; in Maverick County, which is home to Eagle Pass, Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Lt. Chris Olivarez said in an X post.
Chinese illegal immigrants are considered &#8220;special interest aliens&#8221; due to national security concerns and often face more scrutiny from federal authorities.
Earlier on Tuesday, DPS tracking K-9 Bona and her handler helped Border Patrol locate a group of seven illegal immigrants from India, Cuba, Mexico, Guatemala, and Ecuador on a private ranch in the same county. They handed the group over to Border Patrol.
Photos shared by Olivarez showed the Chinese group dressed in head-to-toe camo as they sat on the ground surrounded by officers.
Olivarez said such &#8220;apprehensions highlight the ongoing efforts in deterring criminal activity along the southern border and the critical partnership between Texas DPS and our federal partners under Operation Lone Star.&#8221;
&#8220;Border security is national security,&#8221; he added.
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The arrests come as the Trump administration touts historically low levels of illegal border crossings while warning that the Mexican drug cartels are increasingly attempting to move migrants through more covert smuggling routes.
Unlike under the Biden administration, illegal immigrants aren&#8217;t released into the United States pending immigration proceedings.
Officials say the tougher enforcement environment has led to a rise in the number of gotaways, or illegal immigrants who evade capture.
Last month, the Department of Homeland Security recruited roughly 200 Border Patrol agents from both the southern and northern borders for 30-day volunteer duties to support overwhelmed colleagues in Laredo, Texas, who are trying to chase down the “gotaways,&#8221; The Daily Wire previously reported.
A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection said the region has become &#8220;a target&#8221; due to shifting smuggling routes. 
While Border Patrol agents sometimes detect gotaways through sensors and cameras, officials acknowledge the true number of gotaways remains unknown.
Roughly 2 million gotaways entered the United States during the Biden administration, <a href="https://homeland.house.gov/2024/09/23/startling-stats-factsheet-biden-and-harris-border-crisis-still-wreaking-havoc-at-the-borders-and-in-the-interior/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the House Homeland Security Committee.

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American fashion company Everlane is being sold to Shein, according to a <a href="https://puck.news/everlane-is-selling-out-to-shein/">report</a> published Sunday. Millennial darling Everlane was purchased for a reported $100 million after allegedly suffering financial hardships in recent years. The future of Everlane was initially thrown into question after the company’s majority owner began seeking out an interested buyer in recent months. For those who were hoping that the company would maintain its reputation as an ethical, sustainable slow fashion brand, the news that Shein purchased Everlane is disappointing.
Founded in China, Shein is an online retail business that has surged in popularity in the last few years. Valued at <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/shein-said-face-investor-pressure-072626679.html">$100 billion</a> in 2022, the company is known for placing profits ahead of ethics, as it has allegedly used sweatshops and child labor to keep its costs low. Shein’s acquisition of Everlane likely indicates the end of Everlane’s pro-consumer production methods. 
Founded by American business partners Michael Preysman and Jesse Farmer, the San Francisco-based Everlane first marketed itself as a direct-to-consumer menswear retailer. Upon launch, it garnered a huge fan base, as many people praised it for countering the status quo of fast fashion. The company’s website had a unique feature that allowed buyers to view the price points for each of the materials used in a piece of clothing so that they could feel confident about the value of what they were buying.
In an era when fashion brands are increasingly resorting to shady offshoring agreements, Everlane’s vow to offer consumer transparency was a welcome change. In contrast, Shein has gained a reputation for having questionable manufacturing standards and allegedly violating labor laws. Last year, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launched an <a href="https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-general-ken-paxton-files-fifth-anti-ccp-lawsuit-four-days-suing-global-fast-fashion-giant">investigation</a> into Shein over its negligent labor practices as well as concerns over the “sale of unsafe consumer products” that contain toxic materials. <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg67w73nxqxo">Investigations</a> have revealed that the company has subjected its employees to 75-hour workweeks, poor wages, and unsafe factory environments, while also <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4glzzdd88lo">employing</a> children in its supply chain.
Shein and Everlane couldn’t be more diametrically opposed. While Everlane focused on working with designers and industry professionals to integrate recycled synthetic fibers into its clothing, Shein has typically resorted to using a blend of cheap, low-quality synthetic fibers. In May 2019, Everlane released DayGlove ReKnit shoes, which received acclaim for being created from recycled plastic bottles. Consumers praised the product for being innovative, stylish, and sustainable.
On the other hand, Shein has been criticized for stealing its designs from smaller, independent designers; manufacturing clothing that is primarily made of cheap polyester; and contributing to freshwater pollution through the overuse of microplastics. The sale of Everlane to Shein shows that American fashion companies are being devoured by foreign megacorporations with different ethical standards. 
Many brands that were once based in America have outsourced their production to countries with significantly lower labor costs after facing pressure due to changes in automation and the rapid production schedule of fast fashion. American textile manufacturing was at its peak in the 1970s, but it has since declined by <a href="https://www.globaltextiletimes.com/textile/the-changing-landscape-of-the-us-textile-industry-today/">more than 80%</a>. Although the U.S. is one of the largest markets for textiles, about 98% of the apparel consumed in America is actually produced in a foreign country. 
Between the high labor costs in America and the rise of cheap Chinese manufacturing practices, it is becoming increasingly doubtful that the American textile industry will have a comeback. This has allowed Shein’s &#8220;quantity over quality&#8221; business model to consume the clothing industry.
Since its founding in 2008, Shein has become the largest e-commerce fashion retailer in the world. A portion of Shein’s financial success comes from <a href="https://www.businessofapps.com/data/shein-statistics/">creating</a> its own supply chain in Guangzhou, utilizing a network of hundreds of Chinese suppliers. This allows it to produce massive quantities of products at an extremely rapid pace — quickly enough that it can move in tandem with the micro trends that crop up on social media.
Slow fashion brands don’t have that luxury and often can’t mass-produce affordable products during the short time span when they are in vogue. Shein’s ability to produce cheap, trendy clothing that millennials and Gen Z can afford has given it an edge in the market and a reliable, returning consumer base. 
The rapid growth of Shein and the subsequent consolidation of Everlane doesn’t merely have negative economic impacts for America, but it also has negative cultural implications. Shein is the fast food of fashion. It is low-cost, low-quality, and easily disposable. Disposable clothing is representative of a disposable culture. In the past, people would buy well-made, high-quality clothing with the intention of keeping it for decades. If zippers broke or seams tore, people would fix them or stitch them up, preserving the pieces with the hope that they could wear them for years and eventually pass them down to their children.
The materials Shein uses notoriously rip, tear, or simply fall apart after just a few uses. Its products have no hope of lasting for more than a few months, let alone a few years. Everlane was one of the country’s last slow fashion brands, and its buyout is a sad reminder that we can’t restore American culture if it keeps getting sold off. 
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Brooke Brandtjen is a writer and journalist from Wisconsin who focuses primarily on culture, politics, and religion. She is a senior contributor at New Guard Press, a publication she joined while attending Hillsdale College.

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HOUSTON, Texas — Tucked away in the quiet suburbs of Houston, Texas, is a sinister plot to undermine American immigration laws.
Inside three suburban homes and one rundown apartment are allegedly Chinese women, along with their families, who are waiting to give birth to American citizen babies they can bring back to China.
The State of Texas sued De’Ai Postpartum Care Center in Houston, which they say operates the homes, accusing them of “exploiting birthright citizenship by unlawfully facilitating the invasion of Chinese nationals … for the sole purpose of giving birth.” The center has allegedly facilitated the births of more than 1,000 American-born babies.
The Daily Wire knocked on each of the homes&#8217; doors. Only one person answered.
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The Asian man, who was sporting a &#8220;Make America Cowboy Again&#8221; shirt, identified himself as Lai Wan Lin-Chan, who was named as a defendant in the lawsuit.
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In response to a question about the lawsuit, Lin-Chan said &#8220;We are trying to get a lawyer&#8221; before shutting his front door.
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Moments later, he reappeared as I was standing on the street outside his home. Lin-Chan came out of the residence while recording on his phone as he asked: &#8220;Can I see your ID?,&#8221; adding &#8220;Because you just take picture of me.&#8221;
He then ignored another question about the lawsuit. This time, we asked if there were pregnant Chinese women inside the home.
&#8220;I&#8217;m sorry I can&#8217;t give you any information now,&#8221; he said before walking back inside.
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The practice of so-called Chinese birth tourism is coming under increasing scrutiny, with Peter Schweizer, President of the Government Accountability Institute, <a href="https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/08cf7ed3-aa64-3b6b-3268-21f7d9feb233/2026-03-10_Testimony_Schweizer.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testifying</a> to the U.S. Senate in March that &#8220;possibly&#8221; up to 1.5 million Chinese babies have been born in the U.S. in order to obtain citizenship and the right to return in the future, with the intention of being raised in China.
Further concerns related to Chinese intrusion into American affairs center around foreign-government backed purchasing of U.S. farmland, and the recent spate of Chinese-intelligence gathering incidents, such as the recent federal indictment accusing Arcadia, CA Mayor Eileen Wang of acting as an agent of the People’s Republic of China. Wang has since agreed to plead guilty in the case.
One of the center&#8217;s recent TikTok videos encourages women to apply for American tourist visas “before pregnancy,” stating that the federal government “will strictly investigate birth tourism,” adding, “It is easy to be rejected if you sign after pregnancy.”
The center also “claims to offer a variety of options for tourism while expectant families await the birth of their child,” that include a “luxury chauffeured black-car service across the Houston area for its high-paying guests, purportedly to visit the variety of different locales advertised on its social media page, including the spring bluebonnets in Brenham, Texas, the Houston Rodeo, Christmas light shows in Houston, and the Louvre Couture exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts,” the lawsuit states.
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Neighbors of the properties said they had little to no interaction with the alleged birthing center residents, with some reporting seeing multiple vehicles crammed in the driveways.
David, who declined to share his last name out of concern for his safety, said he&#8217;s seen many different people going in and out of one of the homes.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve seen this in Asian households, like a bunch of family members living there. That&#8217;s what it looked like,&#8221; he said.
Harris County Deputy Constable Craig Cummings told The Daily Wire that his office encourages community members to report such suspicious activity &#8220;so that we can act on it.&#8221;
He said if neighbors observe that many people are packed in one home, it&#8217;s cause for concern.
&#8220;It&#8217;s not ordinary, but it&#8217;s also something that we&#8217;re aware of. When we start looking at multiple people in a home, we start thinking that this may be some nexus to human trafficking. Clearly, having a large number of people in a home is not normal,&#8221; he said.
Nonimmigrant visas, such as tourist visas, &#8220;are reserved for temporary visits for business or pleasure, with applicants bearing the burden of proving they intend to depart after their authorized stay&#8221; and not &#8220;for the primary purpose of obtaining U.S. citizenship for a child by giving birth in the United States,&#8221; immigration lawyer Matthew Kolken told The Daily Wire.
&#8220;In sum, visiting temporarily for pleasure does not include travel for the primary purpose of obtaining U.S. citizenship for a child by giving birth in the United States,&#8221; Kolken said.
Committing such immigration fraud &#8220;results in a lifetime bar to admissibility&#8221; to the United States, according to Kolken.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order ending birthright citizenship on his second Inauguration Day. The order has been paused due to multiple legal challenges.
Its fate now sits before the Supreme Court, which heard oral arguments on April 1 in the presence of Trump.
“We are the only Country in the World STUPID enough to allow ‘Birthright’ Citizenship!” Trump posted on Truth Social shortly after the conclusion of the oral arguments.

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The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is waging a war against faith, a war that it could win if we don’t wake up and start fighting. With everything we have.
And this is a war that China must lose.
Because what China is doing — what we are permitting China to do — brings back chilling memories of the Holocaust.
The campaign was fought for many years on the local level. Now it is coordinated at the very top of the Chinese government and with the kind of technology that should make all of us terrified.
Not just on a moral level. Because we care about the Chinese believers who are the victims of horrifying persecution today.
We should be terrified because China’s war on faith can come here. To the United States. I can make the case that it already has.
The Chinese have taken the war to authoritarian countries like Iran and Nicaragua, where surveillance technology enables the persecution of Muslims who object to Islamist repression of women and Catholic priests who offer a creed different from Marxism.
The CCP is also winning here, in free capitalist America, where two huge businesses, Hollywood and the National Basketball Association, have become willing enforcers of Chinese censorship. Censorship that has shielded China’s crimes against humanity — the internment of hundreds of thousands, forced abortion and sterilization, organ harvesting from living victims — from international notice and protest.
The movie industry is in bed with the Chinese because it often relies on the Asian market to make a profit.
The NBA’s star players sell shoes in China. How hypocritical it was several years ago when these incredibly well-paid athletes never uttered a negative word about what was going on in China, while often condemning our own society.
Only one player has called out the Chinese Communists — Enes Kanter Freedom, the third overall pick in the 2011 NBA Draft, whose story I tell in this book. He no longer plays in the league, and that’s because he had the audacity to speak out against China’s oppression. Yes, Black Lives Matter, but what about Chinese lives? Don’t they matter, too?
Look, I’m as fervent a believer in the capitalist system as the next guy, siding with big business throughout my years as a congressman, senator, and governor. That does not mean, however, that we should be doing business with everyone.
Certainly not with a regime that is waging a war against religion and conducting genocide against the Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, the members of Falun Gong, and the Buddhists in Tibet — and persecuting Christians who refuse to put the CCP above the Bible.
With their relentless pursuit of the almighty dollar and cheap products, a number of American businesses are acting as accomplices. U.S. companies’ investment in China, as of 2025, totaled $127 billion. That’s billion with a B. Those companies include Apple, BlackRock, JPMorgan Chase, and Tesla. Here’s a quote attributed to Karl Marx: “We will hang the capitalists with the rope they sell us.”
China has been waging this war — in one form or another, against one religion or another — for nearly eighty years, since 1949, when Mao Zedong defeated the Nationalist forces, and Chiang Kai-shek fled to Taiwan. Today, the war on faith is being fought more aggressively than ever by a government led by a Mao-like dictator, Xi Jinping.
Let me share with you a few examples of what China has been doing:
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Pressuring Christians to replace pictures of Jesus with posters of Xi Jinping</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Arresting priests who do not acknowledge the Chinese Communist Party as the ultimate authority. Catholic bishops in China are in prison or have disappeared, or live under house arrest or surveillance</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Detaining Uyghurs, a mostly Muslim, Turkic-speaking ethnic group who live in the northwestern province of Xinjiang, in concentration camps — at least one with a crematorium attached, as Ethan Gutmann, a senior fellow at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, reported to Congress in 2022</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Harvesting organs from prisoners who are still alive — both Uyghurs and practitioners of Falun Gong — to support the country’s billion-dollar organ export industry</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Subjecting Uyghurs to pregnancy tests, forced intrauterine devices, and forced abortions</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Demolishing sacred religious sites. Chinese authorities destroyed five thousand mosques over a single three-month period, and 97% of Tibetan Buddhist monasteries and nunneries are now gone</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Forcing teachers to give up Christian beliefs and practices</li>
</ul>
Time is not on our side. Every day, innocent people in China are being imprisoned, tortured, raped. Killed.
These people of faith are similar to the Jewish refuseniks of the 1970s and ’80s (so named because the Soviet Union refused their request to emigrate to Israel), incredibly brave souls such as Natan Sharansky, who spent nine years in a Siberian prison. While small in number, they challenged the legitimacy of the Russian Communist regime and helped crush the Soviet Union. Or, as President Ronald Reagan rightly put it, “the Evil Empire.”
Some of these men and women have suffered for years behind bars, others enduring physical torture. They lost family members and friends and were subjected to unimaginable assaults on their privacy and their personal integrity. Every story demonstrates the cruelty of the regime that poses the greatest threat to freedom in our lifetime. Even greater than the Soviet Union during the Cold War, something I never thought was possible. But none of this horrific persecution deterred them from fighting for their right, and the rights of others, to practice their faith.
The war is being conducted by the CCP, not by the Chinese people themselves, whom I have admired since my first visit in 1985 (my wife Mary and I are blessed to have a brilliant daughter adopted from China), and led by Xi Jinping, the president of China since 2013 and general secretary of the Communist Party since 2012. It reminds me of the Soviet Union at its worst and even of the Holocaust. In fact, the CCP has killed more of its own people than any regime in history — more than Adolf Hitler’s Germany or Joseph Stalin’s Russia. By far. Let that sink in for a little bit.
For the longest time, I could not understand how so much of the civilized world, armed with overwhelming evidence from eyewitnesses, could be silent while Hitler’s Third Reich carried out the Final Solution against the Jews of Europe.
Now I understand. I understand too well.
Because it is happening again, before our very eyes — in the twenty-first century, no less, in a world where everyone has a smartphone, with access to the facts and the pictures at their fingertips. Facts and pictures from three genocides that China has perpetrated: Uyghurs with shaved heads loaded on trains to concentration camps, Tibetan Buddhist monks in chains, the face of a thirty-seven-year-old woman burned with electric batons for practicing Falun Gong. The consequences for freedom everywhere — and that includes the United States of America — will be dire if we fail to act. I pray that it is not already too late.
Adapted from: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Chinas-War-Faith-Sam-Brownback/dp/1645721132/ref=sr_1_2?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.GGfY2swQbHYVnUMulvWUaRGRqN5fjk5y9kgTxleLwG29lbD0L30zLTnhJWx49tp64QwY8uV34t4nHU7Q7wIDg8i5SVLOU0IE5GRSNOV8fLg98OzodOg467kajZnOL-XBPA_IXRca1HVVdPoZgAaGD8XGgJaIzG0i1GMvVHVwPXGIVuvZg52yTd1g0U5ULKMYtQpfv8cO-E7AofRD9MrTSPPNf9zAMez_9y-SzpD5SoM.PYKc8TKZCuMIlA0r_zr2gwqXAy4sD0ZbGa0LJYzTOwY&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;qid=1778706504&amp;refinements=p_27%3ASam+Brownback&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-2">China&#8217;s War on Faith by Sam Brownback</a> (Author), Michael Arkush. Republic Book Publishers.

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Staff for President Donald Trump made sure that no items from China — from delegation pins to burner phones — were taken aboard Air Force One on Friday as the plane departed the communist country. 
The move was part of precautionary measures taken by Trump’s delegation to ward off Chinese spying and hacking during the high-stakes trip. Trump and other American officials <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/05/15/us-news/trump-bare-knuckles-his-way-through-china-summit-without-his-trusty-cell-phone/">made the trip</a> without their personal electronic devices to protect sensitive government and personal information. 
“American staff took everything Chinese officials handed out — credentials, burner phones from WH staff, pins for delegation — collected them before we got on AF1 and threw them in a bin at [the bottom of the] stairs. Nothing from China allowed on the plane,” New York Post reporter Emily Goodin <a href="https://x.com/Emilylgoodin/status/2055174015816474724">noted</a>. “We’re taking off shortly for America.”
Trump referenced the digital lockdown while speaking to reporters on Air Force One, when he noticed he was being filmed. 
“I heard you didn&#8217;t have cameras back here. In fact, I loved it,” Trump said. “I heard that you were shut out for two hours until we leave the airspace. But he&#8217;s got a camera. This guy never misses a trip. You better make me look good with that camera.”
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The State Department advises Americans to keep a low profile when traveling to China and not to take any photos of protests or police activity without permission. 
“Foreigners in the [People’s Republic of China], including but not limited to businesspeople, former foreign-government personnel, academics, relatives of PRC citizens involved in legal disputes, and journalists have been interrogated and detained by PRC officials for alleged violations of PRC national security laws,” the State Department said in a travel advisory. “The PRC has also interrogated, detained, and expelled U.S. citizens living and working in the PRC.”
China’s hacking efforts have become notorious in recent years, including a recent operation launching the first autonomous AI cyberattack against dozens of U.S. companies and government agencies earlier this fall, with artificial intelligence executing “80-90%” of operations at “physically impossible” speeds.
American officials said in December 2024 that they believe China successfully hacked the Treasury Department in what officials described as a “major cybersecurity incident.”

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For most high-ranking diplomats, a misprinted nameplate would be a minor annoyance or a subtle dig. For Marco Rubio, it&#8217;s a victory.
When the Secretary of State joined President Donald Trump for Thursday&#8217;s bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, his last name was slightly misspelled. The reason? Beijing has twice sanctioned Rubio and effectively barred him from entering the country. But Rubio is America&#8217;s top diplomat, and Trump would not have undertaken such a high-stakes state visit without him. So, the Chinese Communist Party devised a linguistic workaround to allow Rubio entry without formally lifting the sanctions.
Chinese Embassy spokesman Liu Pengyu said this week that the sanctions targeted Rubio’s “words and deeds when he served as a U.S. senator concerning China.”
According to Garrett Exner, those words and deeds comprise a “remarkably clear-eyed&#8221; assessment of the CCP&#8217;s faults.
“Likely because of his Cuban background, Rubio sees communism for the evil it is and has no issue calling it out,” Exner, a fellow at the Hudson Institute, told The Daily Wire. “It is a win for President Trump that he forced China’s hand in changing their own rules to bring his Secretary of State.”
As a senator, Rubio was a leading critic of Beijing&#8217;s treatment of the Uyghur minority in the Xinjiang region and an outspoken supporter of pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong. For that and more, China brought the hammer down on Rubio in 2020 — something the then-Florida senator met with humor.
“Last month China banned me,” Rubio wrote at the time. “Today they sanctioned me. I don’t want to be paranoid but I am starting to think they don’t like me.”
Rubio&#8217;s joking tone in no way belies an unserious approach to China. While traveling to China aboard Air Force One, Rubio described Beijing as America’s top geopolitical rival and <a href="https://x.com/foxnews/status/2054668282288873637?s=46&amp;t=ghpHusspWPjTMisXwpsMaA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warned</a> that it seeks to displace the United States as the world’s dominant power.
“It’s both our top political challenge geopolitically and it’s also the most important relationship for us to manage,” Rubio said. “It’s a big powerful country and it’s going to continue to grow.”
Rubio added that the United States and China will inevitably have conflicting interests but argued the relationship must still be managed carefully to avoid military conflict.
“We’re going to have interests of ours that are going to be in conflict with interests of theirs; to avoid wars and maintain peace and stability in the world, we’re gonna have to manage those,” Rubio said.
Years earlier, Rubio contrasted China with Russia, arguing that Chinese ambitions posed the more serious long-term threat.
“Under Putin, Russia is trying to undermine the U.S.,” Rubio <a href="https://x.com/marcorubio/status/1122829094956294149" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote in 2019</a>. “But Xi aims for China to displace us. Putin efforts must be addressed. But in the big picture Xi challenge is a far bigger threat.”
In another 2019 <a href="https://x.com/marcorubio/status/1118153016505507841" target="_blank" rel="noopener">X post</a>, Rubio wrote: “Problem isn’t people of China — it’s Xi govt economic cheating &amp; stealing &amp; human rights abuses.”
Rubio has also repeatedly singled out Chinese President Xi Jinping personally, arguing that Xi’s leadership has damaged China’s global standing through aggressive foreign policy, human rights abuses, and COVID-era secrecy.
In a 2020 <a href="https://x.com/marcorubio/status/1265608222414643200" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a>, Rubio wrote that “history will say Xi’s aggressiveness backfired &amp; inflicted tremendous damage on China globally,” citing the mass detention of Uyghurs, “Coronavirus coverups,” and the rise of China’s so-called “Wolf Warrior Diplomats.”
<h3>Rubio’s Long Campaign For Uyghurs</h3>
One of the primary reasons Beijing sanctioned Rubio was his outspoken criticism of China’s treatment of Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang region, which has included accusations of mass surveillance, persecution, arbitrary arrests, torture, forced labor, sexual violence, forced sterilization, and genocide. China has denied such abuses have taken place.
In 2020, Rubio <a href="https://x.com/marcorubio/status/1317059934551494657" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared</a> that China’s actions amounted to “a systematic state sponsored crime against humanity.”
He later <a href="https://x.com/marcorubio/status/1319639154272161801" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pushed</a> the State Department to formally determine whether Beijing’s actions constituted genocide.
Rubio additionally introduced the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, which was signed into law in 2021. The law blocks goods made with forced labor in Xinjiang from entering American markets.
Rubio also has a history of calling out American corporations he believed were benefiting from Chinese forced labor practices, <a href="https://x.com/marcorubio/status/1432422169666072576" target="_blank" rel="noopener">criticizing Nike</a> in 2021 for selling products made by &#8220;600 Uyghurs in forced labor at the factory in Qingdao.&#8221; But the treatment of Uyghurs is not the only venue for Rubio&#8217;s vehement criticism of China.
<h3>Rubio Supported Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Protesters</h3>
Rubio emerged as one of the most vocal supporters of the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong in 2019 and 2020, which were met with a brutal crackdown from the Chinese government.
At the time, Rubio repeatedly accused the Communist Party of violating its international commitments and dismantling the territory’s promised autonomy.
In May 2020, Rubio <a href="https://x.com/marcorubio/status/1263630684830171139" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blasted</a> Chinese officials after they accused him of placing “unjustifiable pressure” on China.
“Wrong,” Rubio responded. “China’s Communist Party is breaking its international commitments to respect Hong Kong’s autonomy &amp; democracy.”
Rubio also <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/1838" target="_blank" rel="noopener">introduced</a> the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, legislation authorizing sanctions against Chinese and Hong Kong officials responsible for undermining freedoms in the territory. The bill received near-unanimous support in Congress.
In 2019, Rubio <a href="https://x.com/marcorubio/status/1161592939778334721" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> that Hong Kong was “a cautionary lesson for anyone thinking about any deal with them.”
“They signed a treaty promising autonomy &amp; democracy for Hong Kong,” Rubio said. “They will agree to anything to get a deal. But they have no intention of keeping those promises.”
In 2020, Rubio warned that the Chinese Communist Party “should never be trusted to keep any international agreement they enter into,” <a href="https://x.com/marcorubio/status/1263543790683504640" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arguing</a> that Beijing “will lie to get any deal” before ultimately doing “whatever they want” once it serves their interests.
<h3>Rubio Repeatedly Defended Taiwan</h3>
Throughout his career, Rubio has never shied away from one of the most contentious issues between the United States and China: Taiwan. Rubio has consistently defended Taiwan and rejected Beijing’s territorial claims over the self-governing island.
In 2020, Rubio warned that China would attempt to intimidate Taiwan through propaganda and psychological pressure.
“But they will fail,” Rubio <a href="https://x.com/marcorubio/status/1263075520360701954" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. “Taiwan will not be scared into surrendering their liberty &amp; America stands with them.”
Rubio also pushed for stronger U.S. diplomatic engagement with Taiwan, including urging the Trump administration in 2019 to send a high-level American official to events marking the anniversary of the Taiwan Relations Act.
“Taiwan faces unprecedented threats from China,” Rubio <a href="https://x.com/marcorubio/status/1102937750339239942" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. “The U.S. must make our support clear.”
After Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Rubio also argued that the international community should support Taiwanese independence if China was willing to recognize Russian-backed separatist territories.
“Since China supports recognizing the independence of Russian puppets in Ukraine maybe it’s time the world supports the independence of the legitimate government of Taiwan,” Rubio <a href="https://x.com/marcorubio/status/1498825760924176391" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> days after the invasion.
In October, Rubio reassured Taiwan supporters by saying the Trump administration would not negotiate away Taiwan’s future in exchange for a trade deal with Beijing.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t think you&#8217;re going to see some trade deal where, if what people are worried about is we&#8217;re going to get some trade deal or we&#8217;re going to get favorable treatment on trade in exchange for walking away from Taiwan,&#8221; Rubio <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/china/rubio-says-taiwan-should-not-be-concerned-about-us-china-talks-2025-10-25/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;No one is contemplating that.&#8221;
<h3>Rubio Fought For Truth On COVID</h3>
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Rubio emerged as one of the leading voices demanding accountability from Beijing and investigating the origins of the virus.
In 2020, Rubio accused the Communist Party of politicizing the pandemic and exploiting the crisis “for publicity and profit.”
“It proves how they politicize everything because everything, even public health, is subservient to the party,” <a href="https://x.com/marcorubio/status/1250461554979594243" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rubio wrote</a>.
In a <a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GOVPUB-Y4_IN8_19-PURL-gpo212742/pdf/GOVPUB-Y4_IN8_19-PURL-gpo212742.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lengthy report</a> released in 2022, Rubio pointed to evidence suggesting Chinese authorities may have known about a dangerous outbreak well before publicly acknowledging it in December 2019.
The report also argued there were signs of a possible “serious biocontainment failure or accident” involving the Wuhan Institute of Virology during the second half of 2019.
In a 2023 Fox News <a href="https://x.com/marcorubio/status/1649035485648388097" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a>, Rubio said that China does not want the world to know how COVID started.
“This probably was a lab leak accident. Someone got infected, it has now spread across the world and the totalitarian Communist government in China doesn’t want the world to know about it.”
In an <a href="https://senatormarcorubio.medium.com/the-chinese-communist-party-is-dangerous-deceptive-and-self-serving-d7fdc7cb4890#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">op-ed</a> the same year, Rubio argued that the COVID origins controversy was only one example of broader Chinese infiltration efforts targeting American institutions and corporations.
“The Chinese Communist Party is dangerous, deceptive, and self-serving,” Rubio wrote.
Rubio pointed to reports claiming CCP members were embedded inside major Western companies and called for legislation targeting Chinese influence operations, espionage efforts, and military cooperation loopholes.
<h3>Rubio Warned About Chinese Espionage In America</h3>
Rubio has repeatedly warned that the Chinese government was using students, researchers, and businesses to advance Beijing’s military and intelligence capabilities.
In 2020, Rubio praised moves targeting Chinese students allegedly involved in stealing American research.
“Good move to address China using some students at our universities to steal research &amp; advance military capabilities,” <a href="https://x.com/marcorubio/status/1265951910886019072" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rubio wrote</a> regarding Chinese graduate students being expelled if they have ties to China’s military schools.
At the same time, Rubio warned Americans not to direct hostility toward ordinary Chinese citizens.
“This must be addressed in a targeted way while rejecting xenophobia,” Rubio added. “Remember, China’s govt often entraps its own people into this.”
Rubio also pushed <a href="https://joewilson.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/congressman-joe-wilson-r-sc-and-senator-marco-rubio-r-fl-introduce-the" target="_blank" rel="noopener">legislation</a> aimed at exposing Chinese influence operations inside American universities.
In 2018, Marco Rubio introduced the Foreign Influence Transparency Act, which sought to require organizations such as Confucius Institutes to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they promoted the political agenda of a foreign government.
“This legislation aims to bring greater transparency to the activities of foreign governments operating in the United States,” Rubio said at the time, arguing the bill would strengthen foreign funding disclosure requirements for colleges and universities while closing loopholes that allowed Chinese government-linked entities to operate on more than 100 American campuses.
With even Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-takes-a-spontaneous-2028-presidential-straw-poll-vance-or-rubio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stoking speculation</a> as to whether his Secretary of State will run for president in 2028, it&#8217;s clear that Rubio isn&#8217;t going anywhere. No doubt Beijing is thinking a lot about that.

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