President Donald Trump has repeatedly agreed to transactional trade and business deals that aid him politically or his family financially but weaken U.S. national security, according to former national security officials and Democrats. The concerns come before a high-stakes meeting on Thursday between President Trump and President Xi Jinping of China, in which both leaders

YICHANG, China — Behind a large glass wall, a worker in full protective gear watches as hundreds of tiny glass bottles whizz by every minute, sterilized, filled and packaged by a ballet of robotic arms. Inside each ampule is the substance at the heart of the geopolitical strife between the United States and China: fentanyl,

Washington — As the highly anticipated meeting between President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping was set to take place in South Korea Thursday, the U.S. military’s Indo-Pacific Command quietly issued an order this week to stage a “show of force” against recent Chinese aggression in the South China Sea, CBS News has learned.  It’s

There has been plenty to leave Donald Trump buoyant during his trip around Asia. Formality, flattery and ego-stroking gifts have sat alongside genuine agreements to solidify trade, diversify supply chains and build on existing allegiances. But for all of Trump’s gravitas, for all the sway he clearly holds in this region, much of what we