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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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 ‘begins sea scanning’ surrounding Taiwan amid growing fears of an invasion
- Data analyzed by the think tank shows an increase in Chinese vessel activity, which are being used to detect deposits of oil and gas and identify potential hiding places for enemy submarines.
- The increase in activity shows China is more active in conducting maritime surveys than previously thought, with some concerned the survey operations could be linked to a possible invasion of Taiwan.
- The think tank analysis showed the increase in Chinese vessel activity, which is said to be a tool used by China to assert control over the strategic sea lanes of the South China Sea
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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 is ‘big winner’ of Russia-Ukraine war, former FBI agent who worked in China warns
- “They’ll be the primary beneficiary of the sanctions against Russia, the yen will benefit from the decline of the ruble, and they have been given a case study of what the world’s response would look like if they were to invade Taiwan.”
- “It would not be surprising at all to learn that this is shaping up exactly as China planned,” Gray, who spent 10 years working as a supervisory special agent focused on China and North Korea, added.
- “From my experience as an FBI supervisory special agent working on China and North Korea, I know that the Chinese Communist Party is perpetually and patiently planning to take our place as global leaders,” he warned. “As Americans, we need to be cognizant of this threat.”
- Although European countries have joined the U.S. in imposing hefty sanctions on Russia amid the Ukraine war, they have mostly spared Russia’s energy industry of such economic warfare, because much of Europe is dependent on Russia for energy.
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Important Takeaways:
- While the US Wasn’t Looking, China Became the Dominant Power in Latin America, Right on Our Doorstep
- Latin America took on a new trading partner: China. The region has also begun to shift in an anti-American direction, creating a big strategic problem for the United States.
- Evan Ellis, a Latin American expert at the U.S. Army War College, Twenty Latin American nations have joined China’s Belt and Road initiative, in which China invests in a nation’s infrastructure, like the new container port China is building for Peru at the Port of Chancay.
- China will also be supplying nations with civilian nuclear technology, helping them develop space programs, and providing them with Chinese 5G technology that experts have warned is a surveillance tool of the Chinese military.
- China is establishing a growing number of Confucius Institutes in the region, which are school programs that teach young people Chinese language and culture and push Chinese government propaganda.
- Ellis said China is also cultivating military ties here which it could use in any future conflict with the United States.
- “If war ever broke out over Taiwan, they would probably not make it a war that was fought just in Asia, but they would have ways of thinking about how to use operations in the hemisphere,” Ellis warned. “It’s entirely possible that there would be certain anti-US states in the region that might welcome China in.”
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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 may take ‘wrong lessons’ from US, NATO response to Ukraine invasion: experts
- Taiwan reported that it dispatched fighters to caution nine Chinese planes that flew into its defensive airspace on the first day of Russian’s invasion. China has conducted similar flybys in the past, but the timing remains notable.
- China’s going to draw some of the wrong lessons here and its leaders might consider the Biden admin’s response to be more show than substance,”
- NATO has stood back from taking direct action to stop the invasion of Ukraine, which borders on a number of NATO allies.
- “What do you think they bring to the table – and that leaves aside the question of why would they come in?” Cheng argued. “If they won’t come into Ukraine, which borders on multiple NATO allies, in open violation of a number of formal treaty commitments that every signed – Helsinki accords, Minsk, too – why would we assume our European allies to fight and die for Taiwan when there’s no commitment to it?”
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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 state media editor says Beijing must back Russia over Ukraine so it gets support when it fights for Taiwan
- “China has to back Russia up with emotional and moral support while refraining from treading on the toes of the US and EU,” Ming wrote.
- “In the future, China will also need Russia’s understanding and support when wrestling with America to solve the Taiwan issue once and for all.”
- China has not condemned President Vladimir Putin for ordering troops into eastern Ukraine, an act that Western powers consider to be a springboard for a full invasion of Ukraine.
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