Here are the Russians and Chinese being provocative in the region. If they think this is going to intimidate the ROK it is not working:
Six Chinese and Russian military aircraft entered South Korea’s air defense identification zone (KADIZ) in the East Sea without notice Thursday, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said, prompting the South’s Air Force to send its fighter jets to the scene.
The JCS said that between 11:53 a.m. and 12:10 p.m., the two Chinese and four Russian aircraft entered the KADIZ and exited it. They did not violate South Korea’s air space, it added.
The JCS said it had detected the Chinese and Russian aircraft before their entry into the KADIZ and mobilized the Air Force’s fighter jets.
Reminder: this water-cannoning and driving off of Philippine fishing boats and law-enforcement vessels is happening 124 nautical miles from the Philippine coastline, well within its EEZ. https://t.co/hSUHXpgHuipic.twitter.com/ONK1rHQSqI
Can we reconsider the "by force if necessary" formulation when talking about China's threat to Taiwan?
Invading a country that doesn't threaten you is never "necessary". Such phrasing normalizes Xi's plan to end Taiwan's hard-earned freedom at the cost of many lives. pic.twitter.com/6Xk0EprgB6
Today’s protest was a bad throwback to the 2019 Hong Kong protests: violence from pro-CCP thugs, phones with evidence were snatched and destroyed, activists were tailed by national-police-look-alike.
Except they happened on American soil. A thread of what happened outside SFO: pic.twitter.com/OBwmxeweJi
The Moon is the ultimate high ground and the Chinese are hoping to set precedents on how to control this high ground by maintaining a continuous human presence first:
In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, the Shenzhou-13 manned spaceship atop a Long March-2F carrier rocket prepares to be transferred to the launching area of Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China, Oct. 7, 2021. (Wang Jiangbo/Xinhua via AP)
If China were to be the first to land its astronauts, sometimes known as taikonauts, it could gain the advantage in “establishing the rules of the road for how this new era of exploration will work,” said Todd Harrison, a nonresident senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
“We want to be there establishing precedent for mining of materials on the moon and how that’s done for making claims to materials and property rights,” he said. “We want to do that in a way that’s consistent with our values and our economic system. And if China gets there first, they will get to set precedent that’s based on their values and their economic system.”
"To spend time in #China at the end of #Xi’s 1st decade is to witness a nation slipping from motion to stagnation &, for the 1st time in a generation, questioning whether a #Communist superpower can escape the contradictions that doomed the #SovietUnion."https://t.co/7Li3B3w4AN
I did not take this viral video for me to realize the need to avoid Chinese food products:
Fears of Chinese-made food products are spreading among Korean consumers, once again, after a video went viral last week showing a worker at a Tsingtao beer factory urinating into a tank believed to contain raw ingredients.
The video, which has received tens of millions of views on social media worldwide since being uploaded last Thursday, purportedly shows a worker dressed in a uniform clambering into a high-walled container and urinating inside it.
The clip is believed to have been recorded at Tsingtao Brewery No. 3, according to a statement released on Friday by Tsingtao, one of China’s top beer producers and exporters. The company said in the statement that it had contacted the police to investigate the incident.
