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China’s Xi Jinping warned President Donald Trump to use “extreme caution” regarding arms sales to Taiwan, in a phone call between the two leaders.   Taiwan was one of more than half a dozen topics Trump and Xi discussed during a “long and thorough” call Wednesday, Trump wrote on Truth Social.   The two leaders discussed the war between Russia and Ukraine, Iran, and China’s purchases of U.S. exports, but Taiwan was central to the conversation, the New York Times reports.   Beijing claims it must safeguard its territory, and considers Taiwan part of that territory, according to reporting from the South China Morning Post.  In December, the Trump administration announced an $11.1 billion weapons sale to Taiwan, the largest arms agreement between the U.S. and Taiwan to date.  The deal was announced as China continues to claim sovereignty over the island, but Taiwan operates as a democracy separate from the Chinese Communist Party.   During Wednesday’s call, Xi reportedly told Trump that Taiwan is the “the most important issue in China-U.S. relations,” adding that China “will never allow Taiwan to be separated from China,” according to the Times.  Following the call, Taiwan’s Foreign Ministry said it welcomes “efforts to ensure regional stability and shore up the status quo amid increasing [People’s Republic of China] pressure.”   With the U.S. and “like-minded partners, we remain dedicated to a free, open and prosperous Indo-Pacific,” Taiwan’s Foreign Ministry wrote on X.   We welcome efforts to ensure regional stability & shore up the status quo amid increasing PRC pressure. Taiwan?? values US?? commitments under the #TRA & #SixAssurances. Together with the US & like-minded partners, we remain dedicated to a free, open & prosperous Indo-Pacific. pic.twitter.com/Oz1aXSmnTb— ??? Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ROC (Taiwan) ?? (@MOFA_Taiwan) February 5, 2026 Trump and Xi last spoke in November, following an in-person meeting in October in South Korea. At that meeting, they reached their current trade agreement, including China resuming purchases of U.S. soybeans.   The two leaders are scheduled to meet again in April when Trump visits China.   “The relationship with China, and my personal relationship with President Xi, is an extremely good one, and we both realize how important it is to keep it that way,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “I believe that there will be many positive results achieved over the next three years of my Presidency having to do with President Xi, and the People’s Republic of China!” The post Xi Urges Trump Use ‘Extreme Caution’ With Taiwan appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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EXCLUSIVE: Google News kicked off 2026 by largely shutting out right-leaning sources throughout January, continuing the censorship campaign that defined the digital gatekeeper in December. Google News once again religiously promoted leftist outlets that created structural, headline-driven attacks against President Donald Trump and his administration. MRC’s Findings: From Jan. 1–31, Google News pushed 349 stories from left‑leaning outlets, which accounted for nearly 67 percent (66.7%) of its top 20 morning editions. The tech giant promoted only 14 right-leaning sources, accounting for just under 3 percent (2.6%), while 30.7 percent was sourced from center outlets. Google News’s most frequently promoted left-leaning outlets were The New York Times (82 appearances), CNN (36), The Guardian (22), CBS News (21), The Washington Post (18), The Associated Press (17), NBC News (17), NPR (14), Al Jazeera (12) and CNBC (12). Even tabloid outlets like TMZ, BuzzFeed and People made appearances, while many right-leaning news sources did not. The tiny share of right-leaning coverage was limited to foreign affairs, sports, crime stories, the weather or anti-Trump commentary from the controversial outlet The Bulwark. Google News’s overt bias in favor of leftist outlets produced political coverage that consistently painted Trump as dangerous and destabilizing across domestic politics, international affairs and immigration. The Data Explained: MRC reviewed the top 20 stories promoted daily on Google News in January, producing a sample of 620 stories. By utilizing AllSides to evaluate bias, MRC found that 524 stories originated from outlets that had been rated: Left = 56 (10.7%), Lean-Left = 293 (55.9%), Center = 161 (30.7%), Lean-Right = 4 (.8%), Right = 10 (1.9%). Why It Matters: Google News is one of the “Big Four News Apps,” along with Apple News, MSN and Yahoo News, dominating the digital news landscape. Preinstalled on millions of devices, it plays a crucial role in determining which stories are seen or ignored. As trust in traditional media declines, more Americans are turning to smartphones for news. A Pew Research Center survey from September 2025 indicates that at least 86 percent of Americans now rely on digital devices for news, underscoring a growing reliance on these platforms. Google News Again Props Up Left-Leaning Sources The near 67 percent–to–3 percent disparity rendered right-leaning sources virtually invisible on Google News.  January’s data shows Google News recycled many of the same left‑leaning outlets it promoted in December, doubling down on its reliance on the elitist media for top placements. The tech giant anointed The New York Times as its most-promoted outlet, featuring it 82 times, up from 59 in December. CNN dipped slightly to 36 from 38 but remained the second‑most promoted left‑leaning outlet.  CBS News saw a bump, rising to 21 placements in January from 16 the month before. The Associated Press was promoted 17 times, up from 16, while Al Jazeera climbed to 12 from nine.  The Guardian, The Washington Post and NPR declined in volume but remained heavily favored, with 22, 18 and 14 placements, respectively. ICYMI: Google News in December: Holiday Cheer for Some, Censorship for Others By contrast, no right-leaning outlet reached double digits. Fox News received just eight placements. The Bulwark was featured twice, more than the National Review, OutKick.com, New York Post and The Telegraph, each of which appeared once during January. The Three Percent: Trivial and Anti-Trump Stories MRC found that when Google News featured right-leaning outlets, the stories were rarely favorable to the political right. In fact, when right-leaning sources were placed prominently in Google News, the articles were often trivial, non-political or openly critical of Trump. Of the 14 right-leaning stories Google News featured in January, two negative stories came from the notorious anti-Trump Bulwark.  One of the stories, headlined “Trump Is Making China Great Again,” accused Trump of alienating U.S. allies and driving them toward China.  The other, headlined “How the Media Fails With Trump. Over and Over. (And Over.)” attacked the already left-leaning media for not being leftist, and anti-Trump, enough. It accused the media of “sane-washing” Trump’s remarks and treating his so-called “insane” comments as “ephemeral.” Two stories were sports pieces from OutKick.com and the New York Post. One story from Fox News covered the disappearance and discovery of a missing teen in North Carolina. Five stories dealt with foreign affairs, including Fox News covering Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro being arraigned in New York. Three stories focused on Iranian protests, with two reports from Fox News and one from National Review. The fifth piece, published by Fox News, was a column about Greenland. One headline from The Telegraph covered the weather, while two Fox News stories highlighted Minnesota protests, and one, also from Fox News, discussed a government funding deal. That near-erasure of impactful or consequential right-leaning sources had predictable consequences for the tone and substance of the month’s coverage.  The Predictable Narrative Result of Google News’s Imbalance Headlines about Greenland, Iran and other major developments repeatedly clustered multiple, unrelated so-called crises around Trump, creating an impression of chaos tied directly to his presidency. Trump’s push to acquire Greenland was framed not as a strategic dispute but as a destabilizing global threat, with Google News-promoted headlines attributing economic volatility and allied anxiety to Trump.  Examples included: “Trump threatens new tariffs on countries opposed to Greenland takeover as US lawmakers visit Denmark to ease tensions” by the BBC on Jan. 16. “World markets jolted, dollar dips as Trump vows tariffs on Europe over Greenland” by Reuters on Jan. 18. “Trump at Davos: Greenland threats force allies to confront global ‘rupture,’” by NBC News on Jan. 21. “Canada’s Prime Minister Says There Has Been a ‘Rupture’ in the World Order,” by The New York Times on Jan. 21. The same crisis‑framing appeared in coverage of ICE operations in Minnesota. As previously reported by MRC, Google News elevated stories that portrayed ICE activity as the trigger for violence. For 15 days in January, ICE‑related headlines used sanitized language to describe the riots and omitted any mention of the alleged crimes committed by illegal aliens in the state.  Examples included: “ICE shooting of woman in Minneapolis sparks protests, condemnation,” by The Washington Post on Jan. 8. “ICE and Border Patrol shootings spark hundreds of weekend vigils and protests,” by Axios on Jan. 10. “Federal agents’ aggressive moves in Minneapolis and St. Paul, visualized,” by CNN on Jan. 23. “ICE Agents Bring Military-Grade Weapons to Minnesota Doorsteps,” by The New York Times on Jan. 28. Google News also elevated opinion and analysis pieces as if they were straight news: “Trump Is the Jan. 6 President,” by The New York Times on Jan. 6. “Nervous Allies and Fox News: How Trump Realized He Had a Big Problem in Minneapolis,” by The New York Times on Jan. 28. “MAGA’s Foundational Lie,” by The Atlantic on Jan. 6. “ICE Now So Hated Even Their Own Agents Are Terrified,” by The Daily Beast on Jan. 13. Methodology: During the time period Jan. 1 - Jan. 11, 2026, MRC researchers examined the top 20 AllSides-rated news stories featured on Google News each day at approximately 10:00 AM ET and the top 20 AllSides-rated news stories between Jan. 12 - Jan. 31, 2026, at approximately 8:30 AM ET. MRC researchers used the AllSides media bias ratings, which categorize an outlet as “left,” “lean left,” “center,” “lean right” or “right” to determine the overall bias presented by Google News and analyzed the results. Free speech is under attack! Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency, clarity on hate speech and equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us using CensorTrack’s contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.

While this year’s Grammy winners used their acceptance speeches to voice their radical political views, viewers voiced their disinterest by tuning out and turning off the CBS broadcast of the 2026 awards ceremony. Sunday’s live broadcast cast featuring a constant stream of hateful vulgarity protesting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) enforcement of federal immigration laws drew 14.4 million viewers, a million fewer than the year before (15.4 million) and 2.68 million less than in 2024, according to Nielsen. This year’s 6.4% drop in viewers continues a long-term decline in the number of people watching the leftist politics-platform purported music “awards” show, following a COVID-era bump. It’s more than 25 million lower than 2012’s 39.91 million mark - and over 37 million less than the show’s all-time high of 51.67 million in 1984. “Last night's ceremony was one of the worst Grammy broadcasts in recent memory,” NewsBusters reports in its analysis of the supposed music awards program – noting that even the show’s host, not just the award-winners, resorted to hateful, radical-leftist politicking: “Both the host and winners made zero attempt to relate to viewers outside a left-wing bubble or to focus exclusively on the music. It was a long night made longer by left-wing politics.” Indeed, as NewsBusters explains, Noah: Began the evening by mocking singer Nicki Minaj for her public support of President Donald Trump. Accused Trump of being on Epstein Island with Bill Clinton, a false accusation for which Trump is now threatening to sue Noah. Joked that he might need to leave the continental United States. The program also showcased “a Lady Gaga performance with satanic vibes, quickly reminding viewers that the music industry is still a degenerate place,” NewsBusters reports. Next year, the Grammy Awards broadcast moves from CBS to Disney, which has become infamous for promoting radical leftist ideology, especially to impressionable pre-school children.    

On Wednesday’s The Situation Room, a CNN report on the biolab raid in Las Vegas left out a key piece of information: the connection of the lab to a Chinese national suspected to have connections to the Chinese government. Co-anchor Pamela Brown introduced the topic with no mention of the Select Committee Report or China: Well new this morning, federal authorities are investigating a suspected illegal biolab found inside a Las Vegas home. According to Las Vegas police, the home is owned by a man who was arrested in 2023, in connection to another biolab investigation in California. During that previous investigation, authorities discovered materials possibly associated with several infectious diseases, including hepatitis, COVID, HIV, and malaria. The raid in Vegas resulted in over 1,000 samples being sent for FBI testing at Quantico.      The suspected Vegas biolab is owned by the same Chinese national, Jia Bei Zhu, who was arrested for operation of an "unauthorized biolab” in California in 2023. The California biolab was the subject of a report from the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, where some vials were found to be labeled as diseases such as “Ebola.” While other outlets, such as ABC News and local Vegas news, reported on the Chinese and CCP connections, CNN also did not mention the relation on an online report. The only faint visual mention came from graphics up for 20 seconds of the story. After playing clips from the Las Vegas Sheriff and FBI Director Kash Patel, Brown moved to interview retired FBI Agent Daniel Brunner. Once again, there was no mention of CCP connections, while there were allusions to individuals possibly wanting to do harm to certain people: If this person who's running this lab wanted to do harm to a certain, you know, group, a certain people, a certain government, it's unknown the amount of damage that they could have done. We saw with COVID. We saw that the spread could happen quickly. Of course, Brown made sure to note that the owner of the Vegas home said there was no biolab there, as if he would admit it. And I do want to note that the owner of the Las Vegas house says he is not involved in any kind of a biolab being conducted there. The CNN omission of the Chinese connection is surprising, given the stories done on the 2023 California biolab and the clear connection to the owner of the Vegas property.  Maybe there should be more of a mainstream focus on the seeming Chinese biothreat, especially after last year’s case of University of Michigan students smuggling a potential bioweapon into the country. If the threat isn't being taken seriously by some news outlets, they might just be ignoring one of the biggest current threats to the US. The transcript is below. Click to expand: CNN’s The Situation Room February 4, 2026 10:31:29 AM Eastern PAMELA BROWN: Well new this morning, federal authorities are investigating a suspected illegal biolab found inside a Las Vegas home. According to Las Vegas police, the home is owned by a man who was arrested in 2023, in connection to another biolab investigation in California. During that previous investigation, authorities discovered materials possibly associated with several infectious diseases, including hepatitis, COVID, HIV, and malaria. [Cuts to video] SHERIFF KEVIN MCMAHILL (Las Vegas Police): The nature of that earlier investigation raised significant concern for what we might encounter in this new case. [Transition] While it is unknown whether similar materials were present here at the Las Vegas residence, the possibility required us to proceed with extreme caution. [Cuts back to live] BROWN: Officials in Las Vegas say they found refrigerators containing vials with unknown liquids. FBI Director Kash Patel says the agency is currently testing those materials. [Cuts to video] KASH PATEL (FBI Director): What we have to do is take these thousand samples and ship them across the country, which we did overnight, and have our lab analyze them. And once we have those results, then we can produce further charges. [Cuts back to live] BROWN: All right, joining us now to discuss is retired FBI special agent Daniel Brunner. He is now the president of Brunner Sierra Group LLC. Hi Daniel, so walk us through the significance of this. DANIEL BRUNNER: Well, it's extremely significant. And it's a great discovery that the Las Vegas Police Department - Las Vegas Law Enforcement and coordinating with the Las Vegas division because there's so many different possibilities that could end up, you know, harming the community, harming Nevada or harming the west coast. If something were to get out that wasn't controlled, wasn’t being analyzed, it wasn't being - something irregulated labs like this are a danger to the community, and I'm glad that they are able to look at this. Because you have to look back and all the way back to the anthrax attacks, those were conducted by an individual, you know, attacking certain people. If this person who's running this lab wanted to do harm to a certain, you know, group, a certain people, a certain government, it's unknown the amount of damage that they could have done. We saw with COVID. We saw that the spread could happen quickly. So, this is a great discovery. And I'm grateful that the law enforcement in Nevada are taking care of this. BROWN: You certainly don't want anyone going rogue with stuff like this, right? And I do want to note that the owner of the Las Vegas house says he is not involved in any kind of a biolab being conducted there. But authorities say there's no threat to the public, that everything was contained to the garbage. How did they determine that? Can they be so sure without the test results from the liquids found there? BRUNNER: Well, I think that one of the things is when your hazmat teams walk in, they walk in gradually. They're testing the air, they're testing the waters. I'm sure surrounding the house to see if there was leakage, to see if there was any seepage or surrounding areas. And I'm sure that all of that is being conducted very meticulously. Everything is being documented. Everything is being meticulously collected. Fortunately, this isn't a spill or something worse. So I think the fact that they're saying that there isn't a threat to the community is because they're conducting the logical tests, moving in towards the house, and then they're able to collect it. And if they don't see any refrigerators leaking, if they don't see anything along those lines where the detectors most likely would have caught them in advance of their, you know, entry into the house. Obviously, these samples will be collected and determined at Quantico to see if there are additional charges to the individuals that were renting or leasing this home from the homeowner. And then to see what is or should not have been held in a private residence or controlled laboratory. BROWN: So what are the challenges involved with an investigation like this? What do they pose when agents are potentially dealing with these unknown substances? BRUNNER: That right there is the key word Pam, “Unknown substances.” you don't know what kind, especially the unknown liquids. They don't know how volatile, so they have to treat it as incredibly dangerous, incredibly volatile situation. They don't know what it is. If this is an extreme contaminant, you know, along the lines of, you know, Ebola or things like that, which would be incredibly dangerous to the community and incredibly deadly if released accidentally. They have to treat every single vial, even if it's labeled something that they know that is, you know, Cholera or COVID, they have to treat it. That is the most dangerous liquid that they've ever encountered, so they have to treat it correctly. So and then when they're able to correctly administer it and test it at Quantico, then the Quantico laboratory can definitively say, this is what it is. Until then, everything has to be treated as incredibly dangerous. BROWN: Alright, Daniel Brunner, thanks so much.