"If I didnt do that deal with China, I think China would have broken apart," President Donald Trump told Fox News' Bret Baier earlier this month.Trump was talking about the arrangement, announced May 12, in which the United States and China agreed, among other things, to reduce their general tariff rates on the other by 115 percentage points for 90 days.Most analysts have scored the pact as a win for China. The reduction in American tariffs allows China to resume sales to the U.S.America accounts for more than a third of global consumer spendingbut the reduction in Chinese tariffs does little to permit American goods to enter China. The main obstacles to American exports to China are Chinas non-tariff barriers, and the announced pause does nothing to end non-tariff barriers put in place before April 2, "Liberation Day," as Trump called it.BILLIONAIRE RAY DALIO RAISES ALARM OVER CHINA, SAYS TRUMP RENEGOTIATING TRADE DEALS 'HAS TO HAPPEN'Moreover, the reduction in U.S. tariffs is akin to unilateral disarmament. U.S. tariffs are generally remedies for Chinas theft of U.S. intellectual property and its increasingly predatory trade practices. During the pause, China is continuing these unacceptable practices without facing the penalty of Americas elevated tariffs."China came out on top," Alan Tonelson, an American trade expert who blogs at RealityChek told me. "No question, we got the short end of the stick."Trumps "tariff war," as the Chinese regime calls it, could not have come at a worse time for the Communist Party.The countrys economy was already in distress. Yes, the National Bureau of Statistics continually issues reports of robust growth of gross domestic product5.4% in the first quarterbut in reality, the economy looks like it is contracting. Price data for February, March, and April confirm China is in a deflationary spiral.DONALD TRUMP DETAILS 'MOST EXCITING PART' OF CHINA TRADE AGREEMENTTrumps "Liberation Day" tariffs battered Chinas already struggling export sector. Factories were closing, unpaid workers were demonstrating in the streets, smaller banks were restricting withdrawals. As Trump suggested to Baier, the Chinese regime was struggling and might not have survived his high tariffs.The 90-day pause, therefore, gave the Chinese regime a lifeline. Now, Chinas factories can make and ship products to America for the most important time of the year for them: the Christmas season, which starts around June.The Communist Party is no stranger to rescues from America. Three times American presidents have saved communism in China.TRUMP SAYS CHINA AGREES TO 'FULLY' OPEN COUNTRY'S MARKETS TO US BUSINESSESRichard Nixon did that in 1972, near the end of Mao Zedongs decade-long Cultural Revolution, essentially a civil war that almost brought down the regime. His visit to Beijing signaled to the Chinese people that America stood with communist rule.George H. W. Bush threw Deng Xiaoping a lifeline after the nation-wide demonstrations and slaughter in Beijings Tiananmen Square in 1989.Finally, there was Bill Clintons trade deal in 1999, which came at a low point for a Chinese state then struggling to emerge from the Asian Financial Crisis. The deal paved the way for Chinas fabulously beneficialand wholly prematureentry into the World Trade Organization.TRUMP SAYS 'TOTAL RESET NEGOTIATED' WITH CHINA DURING TARIFF TALKS IN GENEVAWashington had a great need to enlist Mao in the Cold War struggle against the Soviet Union, but Bush and Clinton would have been much better off without the Chinese Communist state.Bush and Clinton, leading a dominant America, thought that Chinese leaders would reciprocate and work cooperatively with Washington and its partners. The Communist Party, almost everyone then assumed, would see it in its interest in maintaining an international system that was responsible for Chinas rise."By now, its clear that our hopeful assumptions about Chinas trajectory were fundamentally wrong," Charles Burton of the Sinopsis think tank told me this week. "As China grew stronger, the Communist Party became even more hostile, belligerent, and dangerous."This month, Xi Jinping demonstrated that cooperation with his hostile, belligerent, and dangerous regime is not possible. First, China violated its promise to remove all "the non-tariff countermeasures taken against the United States since April 2, 2025." Among those countermeasures is the April 4 prohibition of export of magnets and certain minerals to the U.S., which is still in place.CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINIONThen, the Communist Party, through the semi-official Global Times tabloid, signaled it would not by the end of 90 days remove what Trump on May 12 called "all of its non-monetary barriers."Finally, on May 18, the Chinese central government upped the stakes, provocatively imposing a 74.9% anti-dumping duty on U.S.-made POM copolymers, an industrial plastic.Chinas response to Trumps concessions was "blatantly dishonest," Charles Burton, also a former Canadian diplomat in Beijing, said. "Bad faith bargaining is the Communist Partys stock-in-trade," he added."Trumps comments to Bret Baier show that the president let up on China at exactly the wrong time," Tonelson pointed out.Trump had leverage and gave it up. China then went on the attack.So, what should President Donald Trump do now?"The first thing is to walk away from Chinas mendacious interactions," Burton advises. "Rescuing communists never works." CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM GORDON CHANG

On May 20, President Donald Trump launched the Golden Dome missile defense initiative. I was in college when President Ronald Reagan launched the Strategic Defense Initiativeinitially mocked by its opponents as "Star Wars."Trump named Space Force Gen. Michael Guetlein as the Golden Dome projects leader, a tell that the system will be primarily space-based.Technology in two areas has altered the equation for missile defense, likely making defending against nuclear missileseven hypersonic ones, less expensive than building the offensive nuclear weapons. This was not the case when Reagan announced SDI in 1983. The Great Communicator said then that, "What if free people could live secure in the knowledge that their security did not rest upon the threat of instant U.S. retaliation to deter a Soviet attack, that we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles before they reached our own soil or that of our allies? this is a formidable, technical task will take years, probably decades of effort on many fronts... But isnt it worth every investment necessary to free the world from the threat of nuclear war? We know it is."CHINA ACCUSES US OF TURNING SPACE INTO A WARZONE WITH TRUMPS GOLDEN DOME MISSILE DEFENSE PROJECTThe threat of nuclear war that Reagan was worried about and thought immoral, was that of the doctrine of mutually assured destruction, or MAD. MAD held that a nuclear balance of terror could keep the peacethat as long as nuclear rivals knew that, even if they struck first, the other side could still inflict massive damage in return.Now, 42 years later, the cost to launch objects into low earth orbit has gone from about $53,000 per pound to $3,344 per pound for SpaceXs Falcon Heavy and $147 per pound for Starship. This is a reduction in the cost to orbit of 360-fold with Elon Musk shooting for $22 per pound ($10 per kilogram)a reduction in the cost of putting defensive systems into space of 2,400 times since the mid-1980s. This makes it far more affordable to loft a missile defense system into orbit.On the electronics front, the advancements are even more impressive. Computing power has surged over 40 years, with costs of processing power dropping by over 37 million times from 1985 to 2025, enabling real-time tracking of missiles aimed at the homeland.With lighter sensors and computers, modern interceptor missile warheads can weigh 4-10 pounds, compared to 22 pounds in 1985. Space-based sensor systems can be similarly lighter and far more capable.This revolution in the cost to orbit and the cost of computing power has likely hit an inflection point where it may be less expensive to build a missile defense shield than to build offensive nuclear weapons.The U.S. builds a new ICBM for about $162 million, while a modern missile interceptor, at 110 pounds, might cost $12,000 to launch into orbit and $1 million to manufacture. Deploying 1,000 interceptors could cost $1 billion (many interceptors are needed in orbit to counter any given launch), versus $16.2 billion for 100 ICBMs, suggesting defense could be cheaper, especially with ongoing technological improvements.Trumps Golden Dome: A modern visionPresident Trumps Golden Dome project, on the other hand, is a $175 billion missile defense system designed to protect the U.S. from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, including those launched from space. Inspired by Israels Iron Dome, which has proven effective against short-range rockets, the Golden Dome aims to shield the entire U.S., a continent-spanning nation 450 times larger, from advanced threats. As envisioned, the system includes space-based interceptors, sensors, and satellites. Trump wants to have the system fully operational by 2029, integrating next-generation technologies across land, sea, and space.Given the 360-fold reduction in space launch costs (and likely 1,000-fold), and the massive increase in electronic capacity, Trumps Golden Dome could realize Reagans SDI dreams.Unsurprisingly, China attacked the missile defense initiative less than 24 hours later, parroting the former Soviet Unions response to SDI.More importantly, the Department of Defense will be capable of protecting the homeland from a devastating nuclear attackwithout automatically resorting to a massive nuclear counterstrike that could kill and wound 100 million people or more.

White House reporters who covered the Biden administration are speaking out about whether they were duped into thinking the president was mentally fit for office and if West Wing staffers attempted to hide the truth from Americans.CNN's Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson's "Original Sin: President Bidens Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again," was released on Tuesday and has created plenty of chatter among the White House press corps while putting the issue back at the forefront. The book details Joe Biden's mental acuity concerns while in office, accusing the Biden White House of lying to reporters and voters.Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy responded by posting multiple videos to X showing him questioning Biden and the White House about the then-president's cognitive decline, only to be quickly dismissed.Other White House reporters found it odd that CNN is tied to the book, while some had strong feelings about whether there was truly a "cover-up."FOX NEWS' PETER DOOCY REVEALS HISTORY OF QUESTIONING BIDEN'S MENTAL FITNESSOne White House reporter truly believes the White House clearly tried to hide the truth from everyone."This was a cover-up by any definition, but a quixotic one for the Biden team to have undertaken, for at the end of the day, there is only so much a White House staff can do to shield the President of the United States from exposure to the press and public. The cover-up had both private and public-facing dimensions," the second White House reporter told Fox News Digital.The reporter said the private dimensions included "secretive strategizing and decision-making," while the public strategy featured "brazen lies" such as video of Biden appearing confused being chalked up as "cheapfakes" and "the silencing of reporters who pressed the issue early on."Doocy, and a handful of other bold reporters, were regularly shut down by press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre if they dared to ask about the presidents fitness for office."The subject that was denounced as so rude and fringe-y to ask about back then eventually emerged as the defining issue of the Biden presidency," the White House reporter said.WASHINGTON POST URGES CONGRESS TO ACT TO PREVENT ANOTHER COVER-UP OF PRESIDENT'S HEALTH AMID BIDEN REVELATIONSA second White House reporter echoed the thoughts of "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart, who on Monday blasted CNN for relentlessly promoting "a book about news they shouldve told you was news a year ago for free.""Sources are always more eager to talk after the fact, but its not a good look that CNN -- a heavy hitter with plenty of weight to challenge the White House as the decline happened -- barely scratched the surface of the story that Tapper now reports," the second White House reporter told Fox News Digital."Late work still deserves half credit though," they added.A third White House reporter initially believed the 82-year-old Biden was merely aging, or perhaps suffering from COVID side effects, and doesnt think the press is culpable."You know, its one of those things; the guy is old. He speaks like an old person, and its getting more pronounced as time goes by," the third White House reporter said of Biden."I noticed, personally, a dramatic difference between when he took office and the start of the second year. I suspected, and wondered, if it might be because of COVID and the aftereffects of COVID. He had it twice, I think I know its been reported that a brain fog kind of thing can happen after youve had it. I left it at that," they continued. "I remember a very different Joe Biden in 2014, 2015. He was a decade younger, so that makes sense."CBS NEWS REPORTER SAYS WSJ'S 'COURAGEOUS' 2024 REPORT ON BIDEN'S DECLINE SHOULD HAVE WON THE PULITZERThe third White House reporter "doesnt get" the notion that journalists should have been able to uncover the truth about his declining health at the moment."How? How exactly do you report that? If youre a White House reporter, you have responsibilities to explain what happened that day. Like in any White House, there is usually something happening every single day," they said, noting that reporting on Bidens mental acuity concerns would be a major enterprise story."People are not going to confirm medical stuff at all, not likely going to tell you what hes like in private or in Wilmington, because it makes him look bad," they said. "Now, the Biden White House didnt leak. It just didnt, so if you want to go after that story, youre going to spend weeks on it, and you may not get anything. In the meantime, youre not doing other things."That same White House reporter is "puzzled" that Jean-Pierre has taken so much heat for regularly insisting Biden was fit for office."To the extent that she says, Hes more energetic than I am, thats just silly, and she probably shouldnt have said that. On the other hand, to have her come out and say, Oh, no, no hes actually incapable of doing the job and ought to resign, thats not realistic," the White House reporter said, adding that Jean-Pierre and other top Biden staffers had skin in the game."I mean, come on, you cannot expect the chief of staff to say, This guy cannot do the job," they said.FORMER BIDEN SPOKESPERSON HELPING LEAD PR FOR TAPPER-THOMPSON BOOK ON BIDEN'S DECLINEThe third White House reporter isnt sure Bidens age impacted his job performance and believes a lot of his shortcomings were simply "policy issues.""What would he have done much differently if he was younger? I dont know," they said. "Until you can show me that he did bad things because he wasnt up to the job at that moment, you know, I take it with a grain of salt."Margaret Chadbourn covers the White House as a Cheddar correspondent, with a seat in the briefing room, and is a WHCA member. She believes the entire Biden saga has hurt trust in the media because Americans are asking what was missed, and why it was missed."Reporters need to do some soul-searching, maybe, perhaps, and question did they cover Biden the way they should have, through the lens they should have, asking the questions they should have, taking the facts and putting them together, or should they have looked for more facts," Chadbourn told Fox News Digital."Should they have done more research?," Chadbourn continued. "I just think there is a whole timeline that the media and reporters need to look through, not just Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson writing a book."Chadbourn, who has been covering Biden on and off since 2005, said he was always affable and always "came alive interacting with voters." But as his legacy is defined, she believes there is anger among Americans over what people perceive as "misinformation about his health.""Not as a media critic, but as a journalist, a political reporter, we need to see what was there that we perhaps missed," Chadbourn said.CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPThe first White House reporter who spoke anonymously believes the truth will eventually come out."We will learn more about all this as time goes by: first, in aides memoirs, where they will, for money, traffic the pitiable incidents and sad details they knew about at the time, and helped conceal; and secondly, through archival disclosure, as we get our hands on the White House memoranda, emails, and texts that will show the day-to-day mechanics of the cover-upand maybe answer the question of who was running the country," the reporter told Fox News Digital.

Zachary Levi considers himself a Hollywood outsider because of his political beliefs.The "Shazam!" star says there are people who don't want to work with him, after he publicly endorsed President Donald Trump."I know that there are people that would prefer not to work with me now because of my opinions. My team has let me know," he said during an interview with Variety.ACTOR ZACHARY LEVI ENCOURAGES 'CLOSETED CONSERVATIVES' IN HOLLYWOOD TO SPEAK OUT: 'IT'S NOW OR NEVER'"They havent given me any specific names, but there are people who prefer not to work with me at this time. And its unfortunate. I knew that was probably going to happen. I didnt make this decision blindly or casually."Prior to the 2024 presidential election, Levi faced backlash for publicly endorsing President Trump. He explained that he does, however, still have allies in the industry."While there are some people who might prefer not to work with me anymore, theres a lot of people on that side of the political spectrum who are even more inclined to hire me and to want to do business with me because I need some people who voted another way."They see that what I did was at great risk. And they were like, You know what? I give you a lot of props for that because thats not an easy thing to do. And I go, I appreciate that,'" he said."I was not a fan of Trumps Trumpiness. I didnt like a lot of these personal things, the ways that he carries himself a lot of the time. I understand peoples aversion," he told the outlet."Do I think the whole package is somehow perfect? No. In fact, most people who voted for Donald Trump recognize a lot of the imperfections in all of it. Nobody was saying, 'This is the Orange Messiah.'"LIKE WHAT YOURE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLevi dished to Variety that a lot of people in Hollywood "secretly" voted for Trump in his last presidential run."I know it to be true because Ive gotten messages from lots of people who I wont name but who were very grateful to me for taking the stand that I took. And also they would tell me, I want to do that, but Im so afraid."And I would tell them, Listen, youre on your journey. Im on my journey. Youve got to keep trusting God. And if you feel compelled to step out in that way, then do it boldly and know that youre going to be OK. And if you dont feel that conviction yet, then dont. Its all good,'" he said.In a video uploaded to Instagram in October, Levi addressed "The View" co-host Whoopi Goldbergs claim that Hollywood was a "right-leaning town" where "very few people seem to bite it because theyre Republican."Levi disagreed with her comments, pointing out that she was only able to name actors Jon Voight and Dennis Quaid as examples of the thousands working in Hollywood today.He added actors like them seem to only come out as Republican "at a certain level of your career to get away with it.""And what that means is theres plenty and by the way, they have sent me lots of messages plenty of people in my industry in Hollywood that are terrified to publicly say that they would vote for Donald Trump or be conservative in any way," Levi said at the time. "Thats why you dont see them. Thats why theyre not very prevalent or prominent because they know that theres ramifications for this kind of s---."Levi pushed back against fears of industry backlash by arguing it has been "eroded" after pandemic lockdowns and the recent writers and actors strikes, predicting it will soon be "f--- gonzo.""So anyway, my cry to all of you out there, you closeted conservatives, closeted Trump voters, yall, its now or never, you know what I mean?" Levi said. "Do whatever you feel like you need to do. If you need to come out publicly and say it, if you feel like you still cant, then dont. I would never pressure you to do that, but know that if what youre afraid of is somehow the backlash of an industry thats not going to exist very soon, then dont let that hold you back."CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTERIn September, Levi endorsed Trump during an event for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard."In a perfect world, in whatever that would look like, perhaps I would have voted for Bobby," Levi said. "But we don't live in a perfect world. In fact, we live in a very broken one. We live in a country that has been hijacked by a lot of people who want to take this place way off the cliff, and we're here to stop that."Fox News Digital's Lindsay Kornick contributed to this report.

An exercise that takes a more mild approach while offering all the fat-burning benefits of a more grueling workout might sound too good to be true.But some claim that the trending "Zone 2" training, commonly known as the "fat-burning zone," offers just that.What is this form of exercise and can it work for anyone?STUDY REVEALS EXERCISING EVERY DAY MAY NOT BE NECESSARY: 'BETTER THAN NONE'"Zone training is generally defined by someone's proximity to their maximum heart rate," Carmine Ciliento, a fitness manager at Crunch Fitness in New York, told Fox News Digital.The zone-based training method measures how hard the body is working and how it's using energy.Different zones burn different compounds in the body, according to Ciliento."Zone 2 is working out at about 60% to 70% of someones maximumheart rate," he said.STAY FIT IN YOUR 40S AND BEYOND WITH THESE SMART WORKOUT TIPSThe most common way to determine heart rate is to subtract a person's age from 220. This means a 55-year-old would have an approximate maximum heart rate of 220 - 55 = 165 bpm.Wearable heart rate monitors and sports watches can be used to track heart rate while working out, and many cardiovascular fitness machines also calculate it.When someone is working out, their heart rate zone indicates their level of exertion and what they're utilizing for energy, according to exercise physiologist Chris Travers via Cleveland Clinic.JILLIAN MICHAELS REVEALS SIMPLE WORKOUT TO EXTEND YOUR LIFESPAN 'UP TO 7 YEARS'The higher the heart rate gets, the more carbohydrates and protein the body burns for energy, and the less it relies on fat for fuel.While exercising in Zone 2, roughly 65% of the calories burned are from fat, according to Cleveland Clinic."Zone 2 is especially valuable because it allows you to add cardio volume to your training without overstressing your body," Ciliento told Fox News Digital."For people just starting out, anything above Zone 2 may be too intense, so a lot of their work will most likely need to begin in this zone."Athletes and those who are already into fitness may not reap as many benefits from Zone 2 as those who are just starting out.Ciliento, who is an endurance athlete, said he sees Zone 2 as a great tool for recovery efforts.Cleveland Clinic defines Zones 1, 2 and 3 as moderate-intensity aerobic activity.In Zone 2, you should be able to hold a "light conversation," but may need to take a break from talking to take a breath now and then, according to Cleveland Clinic.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR HEALTH NEWSLETTERThis is sometimes referred to as the "talk test."When in Zone 2, Travers told Cleveland Clinic, "Youre in a moderately easy zone. Not everyone should stress about the numbers, especially if that becomes a barrier to enjoying exercise."For most people, a brisk walk will get them into Zone 2, Ciliento noted.For more Health articles, visitwww.foxnews.com/healthOther moderate-intensity aerobic exercises include biking, swimming or even mowing the lawn, according to Mayo Clinic.

If Democrats want to win back Congress and the White House, we must reclaim what made our party a national force in the first place: our commitment to being a big tent.For much of modern history, the Democratic Party has thrived by welcoming Americans from a wide range of backgrounds and beliefs. We didnt require agreement on every issue to work together for a common causeespecially on topics like abortion or gun safety, where regional and cultural differences shaped the views of our candidates and voters alike. That flexibility helped us build durable coalitions capable of winning elections from city halls to Congress.But in recent years, weve moved toward a more rigid and absolutist postureone that suggests a Democrat must align 100% with every plank of the party platform to earn the label. This "all or nothing" mentality has not only narrowed our reach; its jeopardized our ability to build the legislative majorities we need to govern.SEN BERNIE SANDERS: WE HAVE A GOVERNMENT OF BILLIONAIRES, BY BILLIONAIRES AND FOR BILLIONAIRESTake, for example, pro-life Democrats. While they may diverge from national party orthodoxy on reproductive rights, many of these leaders stand with us on issues like affordable healthcare, economic justice, and workers rights. In a divided electorate, supporting candidates like these can be the difference between holding a legislative chamberor handing it over to Republicans who oppose our values wholesale.The same logic applies to gun safety. In rural districts where hunting and gun ownership are embedded in the culture, we shouldnt expect every Democrat to support the same proposals as those from urban centers. We can still advocate for commonsense reformsbackground checks, red flag laws, and safe storagewithout insisting on litmus tests that alienate potential allies.CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINIONAs Governor Gretchen Whitmer has said, we need to meet people where they are. That doesnt mean compromising on our valuesit means recognizing that no coalition succeeds without some ideological flexibility. Most parliamentary democracies around the world understand this. Majorities are built through negotiation and compromise between parties that may agree on only a few key issues. Thats how they keep government functional and extreme ideologies in check.We should do the same. Because what matters most is not ideological purityits the power to govern. Its the ability to pass legislation, confirm judges, invest in communities, and protect our democracy from those who seek to undermine it.If we want to win againtruly winwe must embrace the complexity of our electorate. We must build a Democratic Party that prizes inclusion over ideological conformity. Only then will we have the strength to meet this moment and the future beyond it.

"If I didnt do that deal with China, I think China would have broken apart," President Donald Trump told Fox News' Bret Baier earlier this month.Trump was talking about the arrangement, announced May 12, in which the United States and China agreed, among other things, to reduce their general tariff rates on the other by 115 percentage points for 90 days.Most analysts have scored the pact as a win for China. The reduction in American tariffs allows China to resume sales to the U.S.America accounts for more than a third of global consumer spendingbut the reduction in Chinese tariffs does little to permit American goods to enter China. The main obstacles to American exports to China are Chinas non-tariff barriers, and the announced pause does nothing to end non-tariff barriers put in place before April 2, "Liberation Day," as Trump called it.BILLIONAIRE RAY DALIO RAISES ALARM OVER CHINA, SAYS TRUMP RENEGOTIATING TRADE DEALS 'HAS TO HAPPEN'Moreover, the reduction in U.S. tariffs is akin to unilateral disarmament. U.S. tariffs are generally remedies for Chinas theft of U.S. intellectual property and its increasingly predatory trade practices. During the pause, China is continuing these unacceptable practices without facing the penalty of Americas elevated tariffs."China came out on top," Alan Tonelson, an American trade expert who blogs at RealityChek told me. "No question, we got the short end of the stick."Trumps "tariff war," as the Chinese regime calls it, could not have come at a worse time for the Communist Party.The countrys economy was already in distress. Yes, the National Bureau of Statistics continually issues reports of robust growth of gross domestic product5.4% in the first quarterbut in reality, the economy looks like it is contracting. Price data for February, March, and April confirm China is in a deflationary spiral.DONALD TRUMP DETAILS 'MOST EXCITING PART' OF CHINA TRADE AGREEMENTTrumps "Liberation Day" tariffs battered Chinas already struggling export sector. Factories were closing, unpaid workers were demonstrating in the streets, smaller banks were restricting withdrawals. As Trump suggested to Baier, the Chinese regime was struggling and might not have survived his high tariffs.The 90-day pause, therefore, gave the Chinese regime a lifeline. Now, Chinas factories can make and ship products to America for the most important time of the year for them: the Christmas season, which starts around June.The Communist Party is no stranger to rescues from America. Three times American presidents have saved communism in China.TRUMP SAYS CHINA AGREES TO 'FULLY' OPEN COUNTRY'S MARKETS TO US BUSINESSESRichard Nixon did that in 1972, near the end of Mao Zedongs decade-long Cultural Revolution, essentially a civil war that almost brought down the regime. His visit to Beijing signaled to the Chinese people that America stood with communist rule.George H. W. Bush threw Deng Xiaoping a lifeline after the nation-wide demonstrations and slaughter in Beijings Tiananmen Square in 1989.Finally, there was Bill Clintons trade deal in 1999, which came at a low point for a Chinese state then struggling to emerge from the Asian Financial Crisis. The deal paved the way for Chinas fabulously beneficialand wholly prematureentry into the World Trade Organization.TRUMP SAYS 'TOTAL RESET NEGOTIATED' WITH CHINA DURING TARIFF TALKS IN GENEVAWashington had a great need to enlist Mao in the Cold War struggle against the Soviet Union, but Bush and Clinton would have been much better off without the Chinese Communist state.Bush and Clinton, leading a dominant America, thought that Chinese leaders would reciprocate and work cooperatively with Washington and its partners. The Communist Party, almost everyone then assumed, would see it in its interest in maintaining an international system that was responsible for Chinas rise."By now, its clear that our hopeful assumptions about Chinas trajectory were fundamentally wrong," Charles Burton of the Sinopsis think tank told me this week. "As China grew stronger, the Communist Party became even more hostile, belligerent, and dangerous."This month, Xi Jinping demonstrated that cooperation with his hostile, belligerent, and dangerous regime is not possible. First, China violated its promise to remove all "the non-tariff countermeasures taken against the United States since April 2, 2025." Among those countermeasures is the April 4 prohibition of export of magnets and certain minerals to the U.S., which is still in place.CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINIONThen, the Communist Party, through the semi-official Global Times tabloid, signaled it would not by the end of 90 days remove what Trump on May 12 called "all of its non-monetary barriers."Finally, on May 18, the Chinese central government upped the stakes, provocatively imposing a 74.9% anti-dumping duty on U.S.-made POM copolymers, an industrial plastic.Chinas response to Trumps concessions was "blatantly dishonest," Charles Burton, also a former Canadian diplomat in Beijing, said. "Bad faith bargaining is the Communist Partys stock-in-trade," he added."Trumps comments to Bret Baier show that the president let up on China at exactly the wrong time," Tonelson pointed out.Trump had leverage and gave it up. China then went on the attack.So, what should President Donald Trump do now?"The first thing is to walk away from Chinas mendacious interactions," Burton advises. "Rescuing communists never works." CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM GORDON CHANG

On May 20, President Donald Trump launched the Golden Dome missile defense initiative. I was in college when President Ronald Reagan launched the Strategic Defense Initiativeinitially mocked by its opponents as "Star Wars."Trump named Space Force Gen. Michael Guetlein as the Golden Dome projects leader, a tell that the system will be primarily space-based.Technology in two areas has altered the equation for missile defense, likely making defending against nuclear missileseven hypersonic ones, less expensive than building the offensive nuclear weapons. This was not the case when Reagan announced SDI in 1983. The Great Communicator said then that, "What if free people could live secure in the knowledge that their security did not rest upon the threat of instant U.S. retaliation to deter a Soviet attack, that we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles before they reached our own soil or that of our allies? this is a formidable, technical task will take years, probably decades of effort on many fronts... But isnt it worth every investment necessary to free the world from the threat of nuclear war? We know it is."CHINA ACCUSES US OF TURNING SPACE INTO A WARZONE WITH TRUMPS GOLDEN DOME MISSILE DEFENSE PROJECTThe threat of nuclear war that Reagan was worried about and thought immoral, was that of the doctrine of mutually assured destruction, or MAD. MAD held that a nuclear balance of terror could keep the peacethat as long as nuclear rivals knew that, even if they struck first, the other side could still inflict massive damage in return.Now, 42 years later, the cost to launch objects into low earth orbit has gone from about $53,000 per pound to $3,344 per pound for SpaceXs Falcon Heavy and $147 per pound for Starship. This is a reduction in the cost to orbit of 360-fold with Elon Musk shooting for $22 per pound ($10 per kilogram)a reduction in the cost of putting defensive systems into space of 2,400 times since the mid-1980s. This makes it far more affordable to loft a missile defense system into orbit.On the electronics front, the advancements are even more impressive. Computing power has surged over 40 years, with costs of processing power dropping by over 37 million times from 1985 to 2025, enabling real-time tracking of missiles aimed at the homeland.With lighter sensors and computers, modern interceptor missile warheads can weigh 4-10 pounds, compared to 22 pounds in 1985. Space-based sensor systems can be similarly lighter and far more capable.This revolution in the cost to orbit and the cost of computing power has likely hit an inflection point where it may be less expensive to build a missile defense shield than to build offensive nuclear weapons.The U.S. builds a new ICBM for about $162 million, while a modern missile interceptor, at 110 pounds, might cost $12,000 to launch into orbit and $1 million to manufacture. Deploying 1,000 interceptors could cost $1 billion (many interceptors are needed in orbit to counter any given launch), versus $16.2 billion for 100 ICBMs, suggesting defense could be cheaper, especially with ongoing technological improvements.Trumps Golden Dome: A modern visionPresident Trumps Golden Dome project, on the other hand, is a $175 billion missile defense system designed to protect the U.S. from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, including those launched from space. Inspired by Israels Iron Dome, which has proven effective against short-range rockets, the Golden Dome aims to shield the entire U.S., a continent-spanning nation 450 times larger, from advanced threats. As envisioned, the system includes space-based interceptors, sensors, and satellites. Trump wants to have the system fully operational by 2029, integrating next-generation technologies across land, sea, and space.Given the 360-fold reduction in space launch costs (and likely 1,000-fold), and the massive increase in electronic capacity, Trumps Golden Dome could realize Reagans SDI dreams.Unsurprisingly, China attacked the missile defense initiative less than 24 hours later, parroting the former Soviet Unions response to SDI.More importantly, the Department of Defense will be capable of protecting the homeland from a devastating nuclear attackwithout automatically resorting to a massive nuclear counterstrike that could kill and wound 100 million people or more.

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Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., called Russian President Vladimir Putin "crazy," expressing support for Ukraine and advocating for "Secondary sanctions & arms support NOW.""I agree with President Trump, war criminal Putin is crazy. The civilized world will not sit by for Putins imperial tantrum at the cost of more childrens lives. Secondary sanctions & arms support NOW. Grateful to stand with Ukraine as they continue to repel this unprovoked INVASION and work for peace in their homeland," Wilson wrote on X on Monday.President Donald Trump asserted in a Sunday night Truth Social post that Russian President Vladimir Putin had "gone absolutely CRAZY!" and is "needlessly killing" many people.GERMANY'S CHANCELLOR ENDS WEAPONS RANGE LIMITS FOR UKRAINE DESPITE RUSSIAN NUCLEAR THREATSTrump, who has been aiming to help bring an end to the Russia-Ukraine war, blasted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the post as well, declaring, "Everything out of his mouth causes problems, I dont like it, and it better stop."In a Monday night post on X, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, urged President Trump to act."Ive had enuf of Putin killing innocent ppl. Pres Trump Take action AT LEAST SANCTIONS," Grassley said in the post.GOP LAWMAKER BLASTS DUMB TRUMP COMMENT ON ZELENSKYY DESPITE PERFECT CRITICISM OF PUTINA massive bipartisan coalition of U.S. senators is supporting a proposed sanctions measure. Grassley is an original cosponsor on the Senate measure and Wilson is an original cosponsor on the House edition.Zelenskyy is also advocating for sanctions.RUSSIA, UKRAINE SWAP HUNDREDS OF PRISONERS HOURS AFTER MOSCOW LAUNCHES MASSIVE AERIAL ASSAULTCLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP"New and strong sanctions against Russia from the United States, from Europe, and from all those around the world who seek peace will serve as a guaranteed means of forcing Russia not only to cease fire, but also to show respect," Zelenskyy declared Monday in a post on X.