DefenceTalkPresident Donald Trump’s administration wants to sell arms to Saudi Arabia again, one year after pushing through a controversial $8.1 billion contract despite congressional opposition, an influential US senator revealed on Wednesday. “The administration is currently trying to sell thousands more precision-guided bombs to the President’s ‘friend,’ Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman,” New Jersey […]https://www.defencetalk.com/trump-planning-new-arms-sale-to-saudi-arabia-says-senator-75679/

DefenceTalkChina said Sunday that its relations with the United States were “on the brink of a new Cold War,” fuelled partly by tensions over the coronavirus pandemic that has killed nearly 350,000 people worldwide and pitched the global economy into a massive downturn. Fresh tensions between Beijing and Washington emerged as virus restrictions continued to […]https://www.defencetalk.com/china-says-virus-pushing-us-ties-to-brink-of-cold-war-75635/

DefenceTalkUS President Donald Trump further hardened his rhetoric towards China on Thursday, saying he no longer wishes to speak with Xi Jinping and warning darkly he might cut ties over the rival superpower’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Tensions have ratcheted up between Washington and Beijing as they trade barbs over the origin of the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/trump-threatens-china-ties-says-in-no-mood-for-xi-talks-75545/

DefenceTalkChina accused the United States on Thursday of trying to shift blame over the coronavirus, after President Donald Trump said the pandemic was a worse “attack” than Pearl Harbor or 9/11. Tension between the world’s two biggest economies has reached fever pitch in recent days as they have exchanged barbed comments on each other’s handling […]https://www.defencetalk.com/china-slams-us-after-trump-virus-attack-claim-75475/

DefenceTalkWashington: The United States on Tuesday denied involvement and alleged propaganda by leftist-led Venezuela after two Americans were said to have been arrested following a mysterious, deadly sea invasion. President Nicolas Maduro, whom the United States has been unsuccessfully trying to topple for more than a year, appeared on state television Monday with the US […]https://www.defencetalk.com/trump-denies-us-role-in-mysterious-venezuela-sea-invasion-75416/

DefenceTalkIran’s Revolutionary Guards chief on Thursday warned the US of a “decisive response” after President Donald Trump said he ordered the US Navy to destroy Iranian boats that harass American ships in the Gulf. Iran and the United States have appeared to be on the brink of an all-out confrontation twice in the past year. […]https://www.defencetalk.com/iran-guards-chief-vows-decisive-response-after-trump-threat-75253/

DefenceTalkDefense Department officials are in full agreement with President Donald J. Trump’s warning to the Iranian regime on Twitter, senior Pentagon officials said today. “The president issued an important warning to the Iranians,” Deputy Defense Secretary David L. Norquist said during a Pentagon news conference today. “What he was emphasizing is all of our ships […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-defense-officials-express-agreement-with-presidents-warning-to-iran-75235/

DefenceTalkPresident Donald Trump warned Iran on Wednesday of a “heavy price” if it or its allies in Iraq attack US troops stationed there. “We don’t want hostility, but if they are hostile to us, they’re going to regret it like they’ve never regretted anything before,” he said of Iran at a White House press briefing […]https://www.defencetalk.com/trump-warns-iran-of-heavy-price-in-case-of-attack-on-us-troops-75036/

DefenceTalkUS President Donald Trump doubled down Tuesday on calling the coronavirus spreading rapidly across the world the “Chinese Virus,” despite protests from Beijing. “It did come from China, so I think it’s very accurate,” Trump told a news conference, defending tweets in which he used the label for the COVID-19 pandemic. Trump indicated that another […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-and-china-trade-barbs-over-coronavirus-74842/

DefenceTalkPresident Donald Trump has played down fears of a major coronavirus outbreak in the United States, even as infections ricochet around the world, prompting a ban on pilgrims to Saudi Arabia. China is no longer the only breeding ground for the deadly virus as countries fret over possible contagion coming from other hotbeds of infection, […]https://www.defencetalk.com/trump-says-us-can-avoid-major-epidemic-as-virus-spreads-74323/