5/17/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
05.17.2026 at 09:29pm
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National Security News:
1. America has a serious Chinese spying problem
2. The Strategy That Forgot the Threat
3. Iran’s Seizure of Chinese Security Ship Shows Its Favors for Friends Have Limits
4. How America Can Put Teeth in Its Blockade
5. ‘Insatiable’ demand: Inside the fight for a bigger U.S. Special Forces budget
6. Was the mayor a spy? L.A. suburb left wondering about China’s effort to influence
7. It’s Official: The US Navy Is Considering Foreign Shipbuilding
8. China Will Host Putin, Days After Trump’s Visit
9. Spheres by Default: How U.S. Concessions Are Quietly Becoming Chinese Influence
10. What the Trump-Xi Summit Won’t Solve
11. Air Force MQ-9 fleet drops to 135 aircraft after Iran combat losses
12. US Army’s 7th Infantry Division, 1st MDTF to merge as Multi-Domain Command-Pacific
13. Beyond the pomp and pageantry, Xi Jinping sent a message to Donald Trump
14. The Spy-Gift Rule That Shadowed Trump’s ‘Cordial’ Beijing Summit in 2026
15. Trump Keeps His Friends Close, But China Closer
16. Taiwan insists it is sovereign despite Trump’s warning to ‘cool it a bit’
17. Pentagon informed Army ‘just a couple of days ago’ on decision to halt Poland deployment
18. Chill coming from Trump’s summit with Xi is proof of a new Cold War with China
19. The Chinese agents accused of spying on expats in US
Korean News:
1. N.K. football team’s S. Korea visit signals possibility of inter-Korean cooperation in multilateral arenas: cheering squad official
2. No major gap exists between S. Korea, U.S. over wartime OPCON transfer timeline: nat’l security adviser
3. Lee holds phone call with Trump on results of recent U.S.-China summit
4. No S. Korean workers at UAE nuclear plant reported injured after drone strike
5. How Britain Is Quietly Bankrolling North Korea
6. China’s Global Development Initiative: An Economic Lifeline For North Korea
7. Misinformation about May 18 Democracy Uprising rises despite new law
8. No words, no smiles: North Korean footballers stone-faced as they arrive in South for historic match
9. Lawmaking stalls amid political gridlock in Seoul
10. Kim Koo
