The State Department on Tuesday notified Congress it intends to spend $2.5 million to establish the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion within the Office of Secretary of State Antony Blinken, according to State Department documents. The documents, obtained by Breitbart News, showed the State Department intends to create the new office to support its […]

TAIPEI, Taiwan—The U.S State Department has voiced concerns about China’s continued military aggression against Taiwan, after China breached the island’s air defense zone with 13 military aircraft. “We urge Beijing to cease its military, diplomatic, and economic pressure against Taiwan and instead engage in meaningful dialogue with Taiwan’s democratically elected representatives,” State Department spokesperson Ned […]

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told host Alex Marlow on Monday’s edition of Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Daily that the Chinese Communist Party is America’s primary foreign adversary and warned of China’s infiltration of the nation’s government businesses, and schools. Marlow asked about reports of a data leak revealing Chinese state operatives infiltrating multinational corporations, including […]

October 29, 2020 Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Thursday morning condemned the arrest of three student pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong by its police force and called for their release in an official press statement. Over the past few years, mainland China‘s authoritarian regime has substantially furthered its control and influence over the Hong Kong […]

October 19, 2020 The U.S. Department of State announced Monday afternoon that it has imposed sanctions on Chinese and Hong Kong officials and entities for supporting Iran‘s cargo shipping entity Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) and its subsidiary, Hafez Darya Arya Shipping Company (HDASCO). IRISL is critical to the regime’s ballistic missile, nuclear, […]

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied efforts to require former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to face a deposition over her unsecured email setup while she served in the Obama administration. In an unsigned order issued with no comment, the justices denied an appeal from the conservative legal group Judicial Watch, mainly keeping in […]

Following the U.S. State Department on Tuesday publicly accusing China of committing “genocide” against Uighur Muslims in the Xinjiang region, House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) refused to comment on the declaration issued by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, saying he doesn’t “react to the headlines.” When asked for his reaction to the declaration during […]

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Breitbart News exclusively that President Donald Trump and his administration have successfully exposed the Chinese Communist Party as the most significant threat to the United States – something he hopes will last long into the future. Thanks to the work of Trump and his administration, Pompeo said, combined with […]

DHS Two senators on the Senate Homeland Security Committee, one Republican and one Democrat, have proposed a bill this week that seeks to bolster the Department of Homeland Security‘s (DHS) visa screening process, amid shared fears of foreign Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists as its caliphate has crumbled, The Hill reports. This move comes after IS […]

WASHINGTON — Chinese officials have told the Trump administration that security officers in China might detain American citizens if the Justice Department proceeds with prosecutions of arrested scholars who are members of the Chinese military, American officials said. The Chinese officials conveyed the messages starting this summer, when the Justice Department intensified efforts to arrest […]

On Monday, after the U.S. State Department published a statement decrying the killing of 13 Turkish civilians, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan accused the department of “clearly” supporting Kurdish militants, according to The Hill. “The United States deplores the death of Turkish citizens in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq,” the State Department said in the […]

Secretary of State Michael Pompeo on Monday criticized censorship by media and Big Tech, calling for “wokeism” to be put to sleep, during a speech he gave at a Voice of America-hosted event. In his opening remarks, Pompeo noted that some employees of VOA, a U.S. government-funded international news service, did not want him to speak […]

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview in his office at the State Department in Foggy Bottom in Washington, DC, that he believes, no matter who is president next year, President Donald Trump’s “America First” vision for the country and the world will have a “lasting legacy” far beyond this […]

October 27, 2020 Bulgaria, North Macedonia, and Kosovo have all declared in agreements with the United States that say they’ll aim to safeguard their developing 5G wireless networks from Chinese-government influence, welcoming them into what the U.S. calls its “Clean Network” initiative. The mission of this initiative is to ensure that reliable, trustworthy companies help […]

The State Department cited concerns about covert influence by China and Russia on Oct. 13 and asked think tanks who wish to engage with it to prominently list all funding they receive from foreign governments and state-owned enterprises. “The unique role of think tanks in the conduct of foreign affairs makes transparency regarding foreign funding […]

Taxpayer-funded contractors, responsible for resettling refugees across the United States, are celebrating President Joe Biden’s executive order that will increase refugee resettlement by nearly 960 percent this year. On Thursday, Biden signed an order that will set the maximum number of refugees resettled in the U.S. at 125,000 for Fiscal Year 2021. The refugee cap […]

Investigative group Project Veritas released Wednesday a 2011 phone call reportedly between Wikileaks’ Julian Assange and a lawyer Cliff Johnson in the State Department, which was then run by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The video comes as Assange may be pardoned by President Donald Trump, according to reports. Watch: The recordings were from an […]

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stood by President Donald Trump‘s administration at a Tuesday afternoon press conference when it came to the election, saying that “There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration.” The nation’s chief diplomat refused to say that former Vice President Joe Biden won after the race was called […]

October 23, 2020 The U.S. Embassy in Turkey on Friday issued a warning that there could be potential terrorist attacks against American citizens and other foreign nationals in the capital city of Ankara, telling them to take precautionary measures. “The U.S. Mission in Turkey has received credible reports of potential terrorist attacks and kidnappings against U.S. […]

Listen to “Media manipulation and the presidential debate” on Spreaker. On Wednesday, the United States announced fresh sanctions on individuals and entities whom it views as “key enablers” of the massive human rights abuses committed by Syria’s authoritarian regime, Reuters and The Hill have reported. President Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s longtime dictator, has been embroiled in […]