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India.com
7 hours ago
- Politics
- India.com
Xi Jinping missing: Is the Chinese president ill or..., Is Xi Jinping's era over in China? Will he meet the same fate as...
Chinese President Xi Jinping (File) Chinese President Xi Jinping missing: In a significant update from China, Chinese President Xi Jinping's recent disappearance from public events is getting worldwide attention. Notably, the Chinese President has been missing from important events including the including the BRICS summit, which has triggered an intense speculation about a possible end to his regime or a possible serious illness. Here are all the details about the curious case of Chinese President Xi Jinping. As per media reports, the unexplained absence, coupled with reduced media references of the Chinse President is leading to many speculations around his power hold and health. Some reports also say that the Chinese President may be facing some critical illness due to which he is not being seen in public. Some reports also indicate that he is not being seen due to the internal party challenges, or being deliberately sidelined. Although the Chinese Communist Party has remained silent on the issue, there is a chance that Chinse President Xi Jinping's era in China might have been over. Notably, the previous President of China Hu Jintao also saw sudden disappearance after which Xi Jinping became the President of China. Chinese agents caught in US In another significant development related to China, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Kash Patel recently said that the FBI arrested two Chinese nationals for spying on their Navy and trying to recruit American service members for the CCP's intel service. Kash Patel warned that espionage on US will be met with full force. In a post on X, he said, 'Two Chinese nationals were caught spying on our Navy and trying to recruit American service members for the CCP's intel service. Our FBI won't stand for it. We tracked them, we stopped them, and we're not done yet. Espionage on U.S. soil will be met with full force.' Citing a criminal complaint filed in the Northern District of California, the Department of Justice said the government of the PRC conducts intelligence activities against the US using various means, including the MSS, which is involved with collecting intelligence on civilians. (With inputs from agencies)
USA Today
8 hours ago
- Politics
- USA Today
FBI relocating to Ronald Reagan Building in downtown Washington, D.C
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is relocating its headquarters to the The Ronald Reagan Building, closing the storied headquarters building it has occupied since 1975, the law enforcement agency said July 1. The agency is currently housed in the J. Edgar Hoover Building in downtown Washington D.C. 'This is a historic moment for the FBI,' FBI Director Kash Patel said in a joint announcement with the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA)."Through our strong partnerships with members of Congress and GSA we are ushering FBI Headquarters into a new era and providing our agents of justice a safer place to work. Moving to the Ronald Reagan Building is the most cost effective and resource efficient way to carry out our mission." Back in May, Patel announced agency was moving its more than 1,500 personnel out of the downtown Washington D.C. building. The planned relocation from comes more than than two decades of looking for a new office and after federal officials cited an aging building, needed space to meet the agency's mission and workforce requirements. FBI's existing headquarters in the Hoover building "has accumulated years of deferred maintenance, suffering from an aging water system to concrete falling off the structure,' said GSA Acting Administrator Stephen Ehikian. 'I am proud of the GSA's commitment to working with Director Patel and his FBI team to find a building that best supports their mission and their people.' The plan headquarters the FBI inside a building once home to the U.S. Agency for International Development, the principal agency extending aid to countries recovering from disaster, which has since been dismantled by the Trump administration. The announcement did not provide a move date and USA TODAY has reached out to the FBI for comment. How many people work at Patel previously spoke about closing Hoover Building and transforming it into some type of a 'deep state' museum. In May, Patel said the FBI had about 11,000 of its 38,000 or so staff in the National Capital Region, a 50-mile radius around Washington, D.C. 'It's like a third of the workforce. A third of the crime doesn't happen here. So we're taking 1,500 of those folks and moving them out,' Patel said this spring. Where is the FBI headquarters? The FBI's headquarters is currently housed in the Hoover Building in Washington, D.C. at 935 Pennsylvania Avenue NW. The Reagan Building complex, at 1300 Pennsylvania Ave NW, is currently home to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and other tenants. "The GSA will continue to support and work with CBP on space that allows them to fulfill their mission while the transition of the FBI to the Reagan Building commences," the FBI and GSA wrote in the announcement. 'A world-class location' GSA Public Buildings Service Commissioner Michael Peters said the move provides "a world-class location for the FBI's public servants, but it also saves Americans billions of dollars on new construction and avoids more than $300 million in deferred maintenance costs at the J. Edgar Hoover facility.' Contributing: USA TODAY's Josh Meyer Natalie Neysa Alund is a senior reporter for USA TODAY. Reach her at nalund@ and follow her on X @nataliealund.
New York Times
a day ago
- Business
- New York Times
F.B.I. Moving Into Building That Housed U.S.A.I.D.
The F.B.I. said on Monday that it would leave its crumbling headquarters and move into a nearby building vacated by the U.S. Agency for International Development, keeping the bureau in downtown Washington. The decision to decamp to the Ronald Reagan Building potentially ends years of jockeying by legislators to relocate the country's premier law enforcement agency — and possibly thousands of federal employees — to a suburban location in either Maryland or Virginia. The F.B.I. director, Kash Patel, hailed the cost savings of moving his agency's headquarters down the street after the White House proposed cutting the bureau's budget by about half a billion dollars, putting it on a spending level last seen in 2011. The announcement was short on details, including when the move would begin and the overall cost. 'We are ushering F.B.I. headquarters into a new era and providing our agents of justice a safer place to work,' Mr. Patel said in a statement. 'Moving to the Ronald Reagan Building is the most cost-effective and resource-efficient way to carry out our mission to protect the American people and uphold the Constitution.' Michael Peters, the public buildings service commissioner at the General Services Administration, which oversees federal real estate, said the repurposing of the U.S.A.I.D. headquarters would save billions of dollars on new construction and more than $300 million in deferred maintenance costs at the old F.B.I. building. As part of President Trump's efforts to overhaul the federal government, the global aid agency was gutted and its headquarters emptied earlier this year in a tumultuous series of events that dismantled an institution established more than a half century ago as a linchpin of U.S. foreign policy. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
CNN
a day ago
- Politics
- CNN
FBI to relocate headquarters in DC, abandoning plan for suburban Maryland campus
The Trump administration will move the FBI headquarters from the storied Brutalist-era J. Edgar Hoover building to the Ronald Reagan Building blocks away, it said Tuesday. The announcement comes the same date that the US Agency for International Development — which had been housed in the Reagan building — was officially absorbed into the State Department and ceased to operate. The Hoover building has long been in need of drastic repairs, and measures, including large nets installed to keep crumbling infrastructure from falling on people, have been installed in recent years. But the question of where to move the FBI has been a long political fight. FBI Director Kash Patel said that 'moving to the Ronald Reagan Building is the most cost effective and resource efficient way to carry out our mission to protect the American people and uphold the Constitution.' The decision is a change from yearslong discussions to build a new FBI headquarters just outside of Washington, DC, in Greenbelt, Maryland. 'Previous efforts focused on constructing a new suburban campus, which would have cost the taxpayers billions of dollars and would have taken years to construct,' the FBI said in a statement Tuesday announcing the move. Democratic lawmakers immediately said they plan to fight the switch, saying the plan to move to Greenbelt was already final and the money was appropriated. The Reagan building will be shared with other agencies including Customs and Border Protection and others.
Politico
a day ago
- Politics
- Politico
FBI headquarters will remain in downtown DC, roiling Washington-area Democrats
'We are ushering FBI Headquarters into a new era and providing our agents of justice a safer place to work. Moving to the Ronald Reagan Building is the most cost effective and resource efficient way to carry out our mission to protect the American people and uphold the Constitution,' FBI Director Kash Patel said in a statement. It's not yet clear when the FBI would move into its new headquarters. The fate of the new FBI headquarters was the subject of acrimony between the two states surrounding Washington. Virginia lawmakers fought to bring the new headquarters closer to the FBI's Quantico training site, but lost out to a strong push from Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and other Maryland lawmakers to bring the FBI to Greenbelt, which is just north of Washington proper. Shortly after Trump returned to the White House, he pledged to block the FBI's proposed move to Maryland, which he called 'a liberal state,' during a speech at the Department of Justice. 'We're going to build another big FBI building right where it is, which would have been the right place, because the FBI and the DOJ have to be near each other,' Trump said in March. Virginia's Democratic senators, Mark Warner and Tim Kaine — who seemingly lost out on the headquarters sweepstakes in 2023 — condemned Tuesday's announcement, saying it 'isn't a plan, it's a punt.' And Maryland Gov. Wes Moore joined the Maryland Democratic congressional delegation in issuing a statement condemning the decision to pull the new headquarters out of their home state, committing to 'fighting back against this proposal with every tool we have.' 'The FBI deserves a headquarters that meets their security and mission needs — and following an extensive, thorough, and transparent process, Greenbelt, Maryland, was selected as the site that best meets those requirements,' the statement said. 'Not only was this decision final, the Congress appropriated funds specifically for the purpose of the new, consolidated campus to be built in Maryland.'
