Revelations 6:3-4 “when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.
Important Takeaways:
- Chinese navy shows off hypersonic anti-ship missiles in public
- The Chinese navy has shown off an advanced anti-ship missile ahead of celebrations to mark its 73rd anniversary this weekend
- Military analysts said displaying the YJ-21, or Eagle Strike 21, may be a warning to the United States or Taiwan
- The missiles are designed to target aircraft carrier strike groups
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Revelations 6:3-4 “when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.
Important Takeaways:
- China holds military drills around Taiwan as U.S. delegation visits
- China’s military sent frigates, bombers and fighter planes to the East China Sea and the area around Taiwan on Friday, People’s Liberation Army Eastern Theater Command spokesman Shi Yilu said, according to China’s state broadcaster.
- The People’s Liberation Army said the move was intended to target the “wrong signals” sent by the United States.
- “With Taiwan producing 90% of the world’s high-end semiconductor products, it is a country of global significance, consequence and impact, and therefore it should be understood the security of Taiwan has a global impact,” Menendez told Tsai in a meeting in the presidential office broadcast live online.
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Revelations 6:3-4 “when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.
Important Takeaways:
- Taiwan issues wartime survival handbook
- Taiwan’s military published a handbook advising civilians on how to prepare for a potential Chinese invasion, including where to find bomb shelters and how to stockpile emergency supplies.
- Russia’s recent invasion of Ukraine has also heightened fears that China might one day follow through on threats to annex its smaller neighbor.
- The 28-page guide contains information which “the general public can use as an emergency response guideline in a military crisis or natural disaster,” defense ministry spokesman Sun Li-fang said during an introduction at an online press conference.
- It includes information on basic survival skills for the public during air raids, massive fires, building collapses, power outages and natural disasters.
- Unlike South Korea, the Philippines and Japan, Taiwan is not a treaty ally with the United States.
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Revelations 6:3-4 “ when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.
Important Takeaways:
- US Approves $95 Million Sale of Defense Support to Taiwan
- The US government has approved a sale of up to $95 million worth of training and equipment to support Taiwan’s Patriot Air Defense System, the Pentagon announced Tuesday.
- The move follows a similar approval in February of training and support for Taiwan’s missile defense systems, and is the third military sale approved under US President Joe Biden.
- The first major arms sale to Taipei under Biden was last August, which saw the approval of 40 155mm M109A6 medium self-propelled howitzer artillery systems.
- China has massively ramped up its saber-rattling in recent years, sending 969 Chinese warplanes into Taiwan’s air defense zone in 2021
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Luke 21:11” There will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences. And there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.
Important Takeaways:
- Eight earthquakes hit Taiwan, ‘unlikely to trigger tsunamis or other severe secondary disasters’
- Eight earthquakes with a minimum magnitude of 4.1 and a maximum magnitude of 6.6
- The 6.6-magnitude quake that struck in the early hours on Wednesday could be felt throughout the island, with Taitung County, which was closest to the epicenter, experiencing the strongest visible shaking that lasted for about two minutes
- Besides, the quake also caused power outages to 1,203 households in Pingtung, rock falls, and small landslides in mountainous areas, and affected some Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (TSMC) and United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) machines.
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Revelations 6:3-4 “ when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.
Important Takeaways:
- Biden sending THOUSANDS of Marines to Australia in Anticipation of Conflict with China
- 1,000 Marines have already arrived in the country
- The Pentagon is to deploy over two thousand troops to Australia by September to join an established rotational force of 200
- Australian Defense Minister Peter Dutton warned Wednesday that Beijing may look to annex Taiwan while the eyes of the world are on the conflict in Ukraine.
- China has signaled that it could use nuclear weapons in response to the AUKUS security pact between Australia, America and Britain, which sees the former receiving nuclear powered submarines in years to come.
- China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian responded but saying “the US … creating and spreading false information”.
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Revelations 6:3-4 “ when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.
Important Takeaways:
- Taiwan Scrambles Jets as 13 Chinese Aircraft Enter Air Defense Zone
- Taiwan has been governed independently from mainland China since 1949, but Beijing sees it as a breakaway province. China has repeatedly condemned US assistance to the government in Taipei as interference in the country’s domestic affairs.
- Speculation has increased among some Western politicians and analysts that China could undertake a similar step against Taiwan.
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Revelations 6:3-4 “ when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.
Important Takeaways:
- All eyes on Ukraine, China flexes in South China Sea
- Beijing warns regional states against ‘external interference’ in disputes while announcing military drills in Vietnam’s claimed EEZ
- Beijing announced that it will increase its defense spending by 7.1%
- This brings official Chinese defense spending to $229 billion, a whopping figure dwarfing all other regional rivals’ defense budgets combined and second only to the United States globally.
- Meanwhile, there are growing indications that China has stepped up… deep-sea exploration activities across the South China Sea and well into the EEZ of neighboring states, in a clear bid to lay claim to and dominate precious resources in the area.
- Taiwan, which has been repeatedly threatened with a potential military invasion by top Chinese leaders, has been on high-alert mode.
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Matthew 24:6 “And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet.”
Important Takeaways:
- China Warns U.S. Against Forming Pacific NATO and Backing Taiwan
- China has often accused the U.S. of trying to form blocs to suppress its growth, a complaint that’s likely to attract greater attention after President Vladimir Putin cited similar grievances before his invasion of Ukraine.
- Foreign Minister Wang Yi said “This would not only push Taiwan into a precarious situation, but will also bring unbearable consequences for the U.S. side,” Wang said on the sidelines of the National People’s Congress in Beijing, later adding: “Taiwan will eventually return to the embrace of the motherland.”
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Matthew 24:6 “And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet.”
Important Takeaways:
- US should formally recognize Taiwan as a country to stop China’s ‘egomaniacal’ President Xi seizing it after Beijing’s ‘brutally successful takeover of Hong Kong’, says Mike Pompeo
- Pompeo, speaking during a visit to the capital Taipei, urged the US to recognize Taiwan as a ‘free and sovereign’ country because the Chinese President will not ‘be satisfied stopping at Hong Kong’
- Pompeo said after Beijing’s ‘brutally successful takeover of Hong Kong,’ Chinese President Xi Jinping feels more powerful and ‘won’t be satisfied stopping at Hong Kong’.
- ‘Taking over Taiwan, a necessary mission, is not only to boost Xi’s egomaniacal claim of greatness, but indeed to solidify it,’ Pompeo said.
- Yesterday, Pompeo met with Taiwan’s president Tsai Ing-wen to warn that Taiwan must not be allowed to suffer the same fate as Ukraine following Russia’s barbaric invasion of the country.
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