Lester

[Chad Pergram @ChadPergram]

What the Maine Senate race tells us about the midterms https://t.co/hI83TAJ4Vl

[Grace Meng @RepGraceMeng]

Our community is grieving the loss of Tibetan activist Lobga Rangzen outside the United Nations. My thoughts are with his family, loved ones, and the Tibetan community in Queens and across our city.

We must honor his life by continuing the fight for human rights—here at home and around the world.

[Selina Wang @selinawangtv]

BREAKING: Supreme Court rejected Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship in the U.S. by executive order, reaffirming more than a century of legal precedent and national tradition that babies born on American soil are automatically American citizens.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

USAID money funded coronavirus research in China that killed millions of people

[Senator Cortez Masto @SenCortezMasto]

I had a wonderful time meeting with Alexander Yui, Taiwan’s Representative to the United States. Taiwan is a key partner to the U.S., and I am proud to work in the Senate to reaffirm the ties between our people that grow our economies and protect our security.

[9DASHLINE @9DashLine]

Why dropping ‘Indo-Pacific’ clarifies the Pentagon’s China strategy https://t.co/2BVPqm8nin By removing ‘Indo’ from the name of its largest command, US has told India, China, its allies and Pakistan exactly where they stand.

[Select Committee on China @ChinaSelect]

Last week, Chairman @RepMoolenaar met with Lieutenant General Li Tien-Lung, Vice Chief of the General Staff, Ministry of National Defense for Taiwan, who led a delegation of senior officials to Washington. The CCP is using relentless gray zone intimidation and harassment against Taiwan. The Select Committee stands with Taiwan against these tactics and thanks the delegation for coming to Washington.

[Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman @SenateForeign]

I'm glad the @StateDept is holding China accountable for weaponizing access to information and pressuring an American media outlet to isolate Taiwan. It’s only right that Xinhua’s "journalists" should be treated as extensions of the Chinese government, which is what they are.

[Jonathan Stivers @jonstivers]

Another bullying escalation by Beijing to change the status quo. @HouseForeignGOP @SenateForeign @ChinaSelect @RepBrianBabin should respond by establishing a US-Taiwan Parliamentary Exchange similar to UK, Canada & Mexico. Establish it in law & include trilateral exchanges

[Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer]

NEW:

🚨 National Security Threat Posed By Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang 🚨

‼️ @nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s Joins Board Of CCP-Controlled Tsinghua University @Tsinghua_Uni In Beijing While Serving On President Trump’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) ‼️

Cc: @POTUS @JDVance @SusieWiles47 @Scavino47 @FBIDirectorKash @SenRickScott @SenTomCotton

NVIDIA Chairman and CEO Jensen Huang is reportedly joining the board of Tsinghua University, an elite Chinese institution operating under the direct leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

This move comes as Huang serves on President Donald Trump’s President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), a key body providing high-level guidance on critical emerging technologies, artificial intelligence, and national security-related innovation.

This dual role is not merely a conflict of interest, but it represents a major national security risk.

Tsinghua University is no ordinary academic institution. It functions as a primary incubator for China’s top CCP leadership and a central hub for advanced defense and dual-use technological research. Its governance is deeply integrated with the Chinese Communist Party: the university’s CCP committee holds significant authority, and the institution is co-supervised by bodies like the State Administration for Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (SASTIND).

Tsinghua hosts multiple defense laboratories focused on areas such as military AI, guided missiles, and rocket technology, all aligned with China’s military-civil fusion strategy.

Tsinghua University plays a big role in advancing Beijing’s strategic ambitions, including talent cultivation for the CCP elite and technology transfer that bolsters China’s military modernization. Allowing a leader of America’s premier AI and semiconductor company, whose technology is vital to U.S. superiority in computing, autonomous systems, and defense applications, to sit on its board creates an unacceptable channel for CCP influence, sabotage, spying and leakage of sensitive expertise to China.

On their website, Tsinghua Univeristy brags about appeasing Xi JinPing and the CCP.

In one press release on their website titled “Tsinghua Establishes Institute for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era”, Tsinghua Univeristy said,

“The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) has approved the establishment of 10 research institutes to study and interpret Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. The Institute for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, Tsinghua University was established on January 15th.”

Source: https://t.co/TqaBfIbs46

Jensen Huang must choose a lane.

Advising U.S. policy on technologies that safeguard American leadership while embedding himself in a CCP-overseen entity dedicated to rivaling that very edge sends the wrong signal. In an era of strategic competition, where China aggressively pursues technological self-reliance and military dominance, such entanglements are completely unacceptable.

America’s technological supremacy is not a bargaining chip. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle should demand full transparency and clear boundaries to protect national security interests. This is about safeguarding the innovation ecosystem that keeps the United States ahead.

Jensen Huang MUST be removed from President Trump’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).

This is completely insane.

RECEIPTS 👇🏻

[Teddy Schleifer @teddyschleifer]

The New York Times calls the race for Ken Paxton.

[Jonathan Stivers @jonstivers]

US presidents should be able to talk to whomever they want - ally, partner, adversary - without regard to nonsensical threats from Beijing. Long past time to change US policy and I hope it happens

[Reuters @Reuters]

Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said that if he got the opportunity to speak to President Trump he would say China was undermining peace and causing tensions in the region and that nobody has the right to ‘annex’ the island https://t.co/uAxJnOGoyP

[Chad Pergram @ChadPergram]

GOP KY Rep Andy Barr wins Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Kentucky

[Chad Pergram @ChadPergram]

Trump-endorsed Ed Gallerin defeats GOP KY Rep Thomas Massie in Republican primary

[Chris McGuire @ChrisRMcGuire]

The administration needs to clarify this extremely damaging statement by the President right away. US policy has long been that we do not negotiate Taiwan arms sales with China. The administration cannot simultaneously claim that there has been no change to US policy over Taiwan, and that weapons sales to Taiwan are now a negotiating chip in discussions with China.

Every single Democrat and Republican on Capitol Hill should press the White House on what the President meant by this, and urge them to finalize the sales. If President Biden had ever said this, Congressional Republicans would have lost their minds. I hope they’re making their voice heard now too.

[Senator Chris Coons @ChrisCoons]

U.S. arms sales to Taiwan aren't negotiating chips – they're required by law under the Taiwan Relations Act. More than that, they're central to a free and open Indo-Pacific, and our own national and economic security.

[Burgess Everett @burgessev]

Bipartisan Senate letter to President Trump ahead of China summit

"we strongly encourage your administration to formally notify the $14 billion in U.S. arms sales to Taiwan that Congress pre-approved in January 2025"

https://t.co/aAAjypedIH

[Alex Thompson @AlexThomp]

Scoop: Nat Sec Action—the foreign policy hub for the left co-founded by Jake Sullivan and Ben Rhodes—is rebooting ahead of the 2028 Dem primary with a new director, and more.
Nat Sec Action became a key source for staffing the Biden admin.
https://t.co/CZT3fjwUPS

[Reese Gorman @reesejgorman]

Trump endorses Andy Barr in Kentucky Senate Race