Articles for tag: China, Defense, Foreign Policy, Military, World

The Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning (CV-16) sailing on calm water with green hills and hazy mountains in the background

China Stages Unannounced Pacific Drills in ‘Silent Intimidation’ of Taiwan

China massed more than 100 warships and coast guard vessels across the western Pacific and around Taiwan in early November, holding a large military exercise that Beijing never announced and Taiwanese officials have described as “silent intimidation.” The exercise, which peaked in early November, was larger than “Justice Mission 2025,” China’s last formally named drills ...

Team CruxBuzz

Exterior of the Herbert C. Hoover Building in Washington, D.C., the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Commerce, with its long colonnaded facade and American flags

Bessent Blames Lutnick’s Commerce Department for Failing to Blacklist Megaspeed

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Friday publicly blamed Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s department for failing to place Megaspeed, a China-linked data company, on the export-control blacklist, widening the public split inside the Trump administration over the Nvidia chip scandal. Megaspeed is the Singapore-based firm at the center of the affair that forced Jensen Huang to ...

Govind Tekale

File photo of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson underway in the South China Sea on March 2, 2017, viewed at sea with aircraft on deck; image used for contextual reference, not depicting the current Nimitz incident.

USS Nimitz loses jet, helicopter 30 minutes apart as Trump cites “bad fuel” in South China Sea crashes

USS Nimitz Double Aircraft Incident – Interactive Analysis Double Aircraft Incident Analysis: USS Nimitz Operations in South China Sea On October 26, 2025, the U.S. Navy experienced two separate aircraft losses from the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier within a 30-minute window during routine operations in the South China Sea. An MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter crashed ...

CruxBuzz Staff

China Crypto Ban Rumors Shake Markets as Digital Yuan Dominates

Social media buzzed with claims on August 2 that China banned cryptocurrency ownership, briefly sending Bitcoin below $113,000. These unconfirmed reports come as China continues to expand its government-backed digital yuan. Several accounts, including @Rawsalerts, shared posts claiming China “officially banned cryptocurrency trading, mining, and related services.” The market reacted quickly but cautiously, with Bitcoin ...