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Still in progress; have not transfered ByteDance/TikTok or other events yet

2025 April

2025-04-03 The Trump administration sent a three-person team out to Myanmar for foreign aid in response to an earthquake, then fired them once there. China sent 600 aid workers.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/us-aid-team-fired-myanmar-earthquake-zone-ex-official-says-rcna199886

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/with-us-absent-china-steps-earthquake-hit-myanmar-2025-04-02/

PAY WALL https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/us/politics/aid-workers-myanmar-fired.html

2025 December

2025-12-18 (for context) The U.S. announced an $11B arms package for Taiwan.

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/taiwan-says-us-has-initiated-111-billion-arms-sale-procedure-2025-12-18/

https://thehill.com/homenews/5875048-top-democrats-press-trump-to-approve-arms-sale-to-taiwan-ahead-of-xi-meeting/

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/us-14bn-taiwan-weapons-deal-043000067.html

SUB WALL https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026/05/15/us-taiwan-weapons-deal-xi-jinping-donald-trump/

2026 April

2026-04-14 After Trump announced he’d place a blockade on the Strait of Hormuz, Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun said in a statement, “We have trade and energy agreements with Iran; we expect others not to interfere in our affairs. The Strait of Hormuz is open to us”.

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/14/headlines/the_strait_of_hormuz_is_open_to_us_china_warns_us_against_blockading_iranian_ports

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/china-challenges-us-blockade-hormuz-1791549

2026-04-16 Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) advocated for aggressive US action against Iran, saying that blocking oil shipments to China would be a “wonderful” outcome.

https://www.aol.com/articles/anthony-scaramucci-asks-ai-rick-140106268.html

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/anthony-scaramucci-asks-ai-rick-120106172.html

2019 STATEMENT https://www.rickscott.senate.gov/2019/9/sen-rick-scott-chinas-investment-iran-proves-they-cant-be-trusted

PBS INTERVIEW/MULTIPLE TOPICS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufJ_fl_qgB0

2026-04-20 China published concerns that the U.S. will use the Strait of Malacca as a global trade chokepoint.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3350691/malacca-strait-risk-hormuz-chain-reaction-after-warning-iranian-adviser

https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/04/forget-hormuz-the-strait-of-malacca-moves-3500000000000-in-goods-a-year-close-it-and-watch-the-global-economy-crash

https://asiatimes.com/2026/04/us-has-left-malaccan-states-no-choice-but-to-charge-tolls/

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3350691/malacca-strait-risk-hormuz-chain-reaction-after-warning-iranian-adviser

2026 May

2026-05-05 The Associated Press won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on U.S. companies enabling surveillance and detention in China.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGYd6emyk-0&list=WL&index=2

https://apnews.com/article/pulitzers-ap-china-surveillance-investigation-916b0fa8d2eb022d7630da63be0c34d1

https://lufkindailynews.com/ap_video/pulitzer-prize-winner-us-companies-enabled-brutal-mass-detention-and-surveillance-in-china/video_25db63a6-e0ef-50b5-ab01-413f7fcdf1a6.html

2026-05-09 The U.S. obligated millions of dollars in soybean, corn and vegetable oil trade from Argentina.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WObLO2hXP44&list=WL&index=3

https://www.farmprogress.com/marketing/china-inks-900-million-deal-for-argentine-crops-sidestepping-us-amid-trade-tensions

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-08/china-is-said-seeking-argentina-crops-as-it-skirts-us-tariffs

2026-05-13 Trump met with President Xi Jinping in China to discuss trade and arms sales.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-xi-china-trip-arrival-353c768987542843e2033aa684266879

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/whats-at-stake-as-trump-heads-to-china-for-talks-with-xi

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/13/politics/live-news/trump-china-visit-arrival-ceremony-hnk

2026-05-14 China’s president Xi Jinping warned president Trump that the US and China could clash over issues with Taiwan.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/xi-tells-trump-u-s-and-china-could-clash-over-taiwan

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-china-visit-xi-meeting-hnk

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/14/trump-xi-beijing-summit-trade-taiwan-ai-iran-rare-earths-tariffs.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/china/xi-warns-trump-taiwan-conflict-summit-beijing-china-us-rcna345069

2026-05-17 China committed to buy $17B in US farm goods each year from 2026 to 2028.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkxw7cbuYao&list=WL&index=1

https://www.newsmax.com/finance/streettalk/china-agriculture/2026/05/17/id/1256557/

2026 July

2026-07-16 Trump delivered a public address about election fraud claims from 2020. In it, he laid groundwork to make future election fraud claims, fueled doubt about election integrity, made conflicting claims that China meddled in elections despite his own team saying that never happened, claimed “deep state” cover ups, and touted newly declassified and heavily redacted documents available on the White House website.

https://time.com/article/2026/07/17/trump-speech-elections-china-save-act-takeaways/

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/16/republicans-brace-trump-speech-election-fraud-00999640

https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/16/politics/live-news/trump-speech-election

https://www.npr.org/2026/07/16/nx-s1-5896448/trump-election-address

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1ZAwSOI408&list=WL&index=3&t=329s

FEDERAL INTEL REPORT 2022 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aqorZ61AYFqZU-EDQBBzjqfvAoC5nKcB/view

FEDERAL INTEL REPORT 2020 https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/ICA-declass-16MAR21.pdf

WHITE HOUSE DECLASSIFIED DOCS PAGE https://www.whitehouse.gov/election-integrity/

2026-07-20 The Trump administration is considering restrictions on newer Chinese open weight AI models.

https://www.axios.com/2026/07/20/ai-us-china-open-source-kimi

2026-07-22 While at the Asean Summit in the Philippines Marco Rubio defended the nuclear program deal with Saudi, reaffirmed commitment to counter Chinese influence, and discussed the Ukraine and Iran.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/22/rubio-says-us-china-must-work-through-big-differences-at-asean-meeting

https://www.c-span.org/program/news-conference/secy-of-state-rubio-speaks-to-reporters-following-meeting-with-southeast-asian-foreign-ministers/6832740

https://apnews.com/article/asean-rubio-south-china-sea-iran-war-12b3a257be0b6af9d96356dd78be3cfd

2026 August

2026-08-26 Devastating flash floods at the Nepal-China border killed at least 31 people and left hundreds missing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-VYCKrMGro&list=WL&index=2

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/what-triggered-catastrophic-flood-nepal-tibet-border-2026-08-26/

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/26/world/live-news/nepal-flash-flooding-floods-intl

2026-08-28 A lake formed from the Nepal flood as the death toll surpassed 900 people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmvPMSc0ezs

https://www.cbc.ca/news/climate/nepal-tibet-glacier-flood-climate-disaster-9.7323295

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/31/world/live-news/nepal-china-flood

2026-08-31 Allegedly China rejected Argentine beef its high levels of chloramphenicol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-wIz4s2Xs0&list=WL&index=7&t=64s

https://www.alreporter.com/2026/08/27/sparks-urges-tougher-testing-of-imported-beef/