The truth is funny but sad.
We had a good thing, Britain.
A really good thing.
You taught us this game. Mahan studied you. We just wrote bigger checks.
The deal was simple. We spend the trillions. Fight the hard wars. We even let you sit out Vietnam. And you? You hold the chokepoints you already own. You run Lloyd’s. Ships in the narrows, insurance on the hulls.
That’s all you had to do and we would back your interests with the strongest military and financial markets in the world.
That was the deal.
Now look at you.
You gave up Aden. Fine. You kept Diego Garcia so we could reach it with bombers. Now you’re giving that away too. To a Chinese client state.
You built Israel to guard Suez. Now your Foreign Secretary threatens to arrest their PM.
You built a base nearby to back it up. Iran hit your base in Cyprus. You didn’t have one warship in the Mediterranean. Spain got there first. Spain.
You gave up Hong Kong but backed Taiwan. Now you’re letting China build the largest embassy in Europe on top of London’s fiber-optic cables. We gave you Five Eyes. You gave Beijing a SIGINT platform in the heart of the City.
Gibraltar. Three hundred years. Actual sieges. Now the Spanish run your border checks.
You lost South Africa but kept the Falklands so we can overfly the Magellan Strait. Argentina could probably take that with rowboats today.
Your king kept ownership of the Canadian, Australian and New Zealand navies to fill the gaps. Those navies are now a laughing stock.
Your warships and bombers patrolled the GIUK gap. Now you don’t have enough but you also don’t want us buying Greenland. Fine. You do it. With what?
We gave London the @IMOHQ to regulate shipping, you backed the EU agenda to carbon tax every ship to build woke UN slush fund.
Iran closed Hormuz. In the ‘80s, 540 ships got hit. Lloyd’s never blinked. Because your navy was there. Now Lloyd’s cancels. Because it isn’t.
You scrapped your only amphibious ships. Sold them. To Brazil. You have more admirals than warships.
You built two light carriers but they keep springing leaks and you don’t have enough escort ships to support them.
The English Channel. Stopped Napoleon. Stopped Hitler. Now you can’t stop rubber dinghies.
You had one job.
Have the warships, diplomatic backbone and insurance to support shipping through the straits.
That’s it. That’s all we asked.
And you blew it. Chokepoint by chokepoint. Called it progress.
Now hundreds of ships are stuck in the Persian Gulf and the world is blaming us.
But that’s ok. All those solar panels you bought from China will keep you warm in that dreary weather I guess.
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In China’s latest attempt at brainwashing its people to believe that less is more…
🥸Watch this "beautiful" video to understand how desperate the CCP is about China's unemployment situation.
🚴Yesterday, the CCP's mouthpiece @CCTV released a video showing how a white-collar graphic designer became a food delivery rider, found a new way of living, and got closer to her "dream."
🙀Today, the video was taken down.
❓Why? You tell me!
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🥸Watch this "beautiful" video to understand how desperate the CCP is about China's unemployment situation.
🚴Yesterday, the CCP's mouthpiece @CCTV released a video showing how a white-collar graphic designer became a food delivery rider, found a new way of living, and got closer to her "dream."
🙀Today, the video was taken down.
❓Why? You tell me!
💥 You’ll never see these charts anywhere else, and every number comes from China’s own official data!
🚨 The problem is, even these “beautified” figures can no longer hide China’s economic crisis. October appears to be the “breaking point” we warned about before.
👇 Watch and find out! (Turn on CC if needed)
As if you needed more evidence that China acts like a crybaby when people don’t toe the CCP‘s line
This is legitimately JAW DROPPING. I’m stunned by this.
Yesterday Chinese state censors cut off a famous Japanese singer mid-performance in Shanghai. They targeted this singer Maki Otsuki for humiliation purely because she was Japanese.
They cut the stage lighting and music before two members of the stage crew forced her off stage. They then cancelled the second day of the two-day concert.
This is part of the Chinese dictatorship’s month long unhinged meltdown at Japan. The new Japanese prime minister Sanae Takaichi said that a Chinese invasion of Taiwan would be a major security threat to Japan, so a Chinese diplomat in Japan threatened to cut off her head and Beijing launched a full struggle campaign against Japan.
The Chinese hate campaign against Japan is now seriously reaching a Maoist Cultural Revolution tier fever pitch. There is now a drive by Chinese authorities to try humiliate and punish random Japanese people in China wherever they can.
Just so barbaric and astonishing.
Imagine if Trump responded to some comment by Keir Starmer by having ICE agents haul Ed Sheeran off stage in the middle of a stadium concert. Imagine the outrage. The entire world would be shocked.
But China does this every day and nobody cares.
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“We have said from the outset, we would never put our financial centre or country at risk, which is what Labour are doing, so they can have a political press release gloating on taking money from the Chinese.”
The White House has warned Downing Street against allowing the 🇨🇳 super-embassy to be built near sensitive London financial centers.
The plan for the super-embassy was blocked by the previous government amid British intelligence warnings about its location and the espionage risk, but has been revived after personal lobbying from 🇨🇳 Xi Jinping.
However, fresh security concerns have been raised about the complex at Royal Mint Court because of its proximity to a sensitive hub of critical communication cables that could be susceptible to attack. The proposed site lies directly between financial hubs in the City and Canary Wharf and close to three significant data centers.
A senior US official: “The United States is deeply concerned about providing China with potential access to thesensitive communications of one of our closest allies.”
“The United States expects that all decisions will be taken with our (both US and UK) national security interests in mind and after thorough mitigation as recommended and approved by counterintelligence professionals.”
It is understood President Trump has previously urged Sir Keir Starmer to deny permission for the super embassy and the issue has been raised in the trade negotiations. The Trump administration would have reservations about sharing intelligence with the UK if the embassy opened.
It comes after a memo was passed to 🇺🇸 National Security Council by members of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (Ipac). The memo claimed the “dark cabling” under the embassy site “feeds the City of London” — the heart of UK financial services.
John Moolenaar, the Republican head of the House of Representatives’ China committee: “If reports are accurate, placing a PRC embassy of unprecedented size over sensitive cabling that supports US and UK financial systems would pose an unacceptable risk to our institutions. The Chinese Communist Party has a clear track record of targeting critical infrastructure.
“This development would raise serious concerns in the United States and could be viewed as an act of strategic overreach by Beijing and a curious error in judgment by London.”
Luke de Pulford, executive director of Ipac: “The Chinese mega-embassy has become a flashpoint in UK-US trade talks and it’s staggering that the White House had to publicly confirm the cabling risk just to defend its own financial system. It’s time to send Xi Jinping a clear message: no matter the pressure or coercion, the UK and US won’t trade away national security, and this embassy isn’t happening.”
Beijing has been trying to redevelop former Royal Mint buildings near the Tower of London since it bought the site in 2018. It is understood 🇨🇳 Foreign Minister Wang Yi raised the issue with 🇬🇧 foreign secretary David Lammy during a visit to London this year. Xi had earlier done the same in a call with Starmer.
The planning decision for the embassy, which would be China’s largest in Europe, was called in by 🇬🇧 housing secretary Angela Rayner last year. The plan was initially refused by Tower Hamlets council in 2022.
Within a fortnight of Rachel Reeves returning from an official visit to China this year, both Scotland Yard and Tower Hamlets council dropped their objections to the project.
🇬🇧 shadow foreign secretary Priti Patel: “China is a dangerous threat to the national and economic security of our country. We never supported this proposal and we stand firmly against Labour’s plans to build a Chinese super embassy in the heart of our great city. We have said from the outset, we would never put our financial centre or country at risk, which is what Labour are doing, so they can have a political press release gloating on taking money from the Chinese.”
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The concerns about Chinese government influence at Harvard are not new. Some U.S. lawmakers …have expressed worries that 🇨🇳 is manipulating Harvard to gain access to U.S. advanced technology, to circumvent U.S. security laws and to stifle criticism of it in the us
1/2 The truth is it would be better to close Harvard than to have it remain a safe harbor for the CCP on American soil. reuters.com/world/us/long-ad…
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"Xi can only stay the Supreme Leader if people are employed."
"America is the #1 economy on earth with all the cards. We will not have that forever. It's time to squeeze Chinese heads into the wall."
Kevin O'Leary calls for 400% tariffs on China.
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Putin was losing this round, so Trump finally gave him the reset button he’s been looking for . @POTUS
Nordstream 2 must never ever be restarted. No return to business as usual with Putin. RT if you agree.
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Example #9,485,842 that everything China claims is filled with lies.
So DeepSeek’s miracle claim to have spent just 💵6m unravels. Report by SemiAnalysis says they spent 1.6bn and has tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs. taiwannews.com.tw/news/60303…
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So DeepSeek’s miracle claim to have spent just 💵6m unravels. Report by SemiAnalysis says they spent 1.6bn and has tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs. taiwannews.com.tw/news/60303…
“It should be noted that the attempt to disseminate false understandings around resolution 2758 is a recent focus of the Chinese Communist Party, designed to shut Taiwan out of international institutions”
Outstanding refutation by @BryceWakefield of PRC ambassador Xiao Qian's piece of party propaganda in the @FinancialReview earlier in the week.
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“Their goal is to normalize such deployments, and if these actions go unnoticed and unchallenged, it will enable them to alter the existing status quo. This strategy of normalization […], has consistently been part of the Chinese playbook” This is what 🇨🇳 is doing to Taiwan too
In our analysis of satellite imagery overlaid with the estimated grid coordinates of the fourth dash line, it is important to highlight that the justification for the China Coast Guard vessels are rooted in this dash line.
Their goal is to normalize such deployments, and if these actions go unnoticed and unchallenged, it will enable them to alter the existing status quo. This strategy of normalization, followed by altering the status quo and ultimately operationalizing their illegal narrative, has consistently been part of the Chinese playbook.
This is why it is important for the Philippine Coast Guard to actively expose these unlawful deployments of Chinese vessels to the global community, ensuring that such actions are not normalized and that this bullying behavior does not succeed.
If the international community remains passive in the face of this illegal deployment by the Chinese Communist Party's maritime forces, it could embolden them to infringe upon the uncontested Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ) of other nations, such as Vietnam, Brunei, Malaysia, and Indonesia.
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prepositioning and intelligence collection by the hackers “are designed to ensure they prevail by keeping the U.S. from projecting power, and inducing chaos at home.” (WSJ)
Revealing WSJ report—
Chinese hackers have the ability to shut down U.S. ports, power grids, and other infrastructure targets at will.
The National Security Agency (NSA) observed that Beijing was starting to lay the cyber groundwork in the U.S. for a potential Taiwan invasion.
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China in a nutshell
"Liberation" is #China's euphemism for invasion, occupation, colonization & genocide. From #EastTurkistan to #Tibet, #SouthernMongolia & #Manchuria, history exposes Beijing's ultimate goal: global domination through occupation, colonization, genocide & the enslavement of humanity.
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This is China, a hegemonic bully: “This isn't about protecting sovereignty; it's about undermining the sovereignty of smaller nations to advance their own agenda. By bullying countries like the Philippines, China seeks to impose its dominance in the region,”
The actions of China, such as asserting control over Scarborough Shoal—an area far from its own borders and clearly within the Exclusive Economic Zone of the Philippines—expose their true intentions. This isn't about protecting sovereignty; it's about undermining the sovereignty of smaller nations to advance their own agenda. By bullying countries like the Philippines, China seeks to impose its dominance in the region, disregarding international laws and the livelihoods of those directly impacted.
Smaller nations deserve the right to peace, security, and autonomy without facing such aggressive tactics. Highlighting these actions isn’t being a 'tool'; it’s standing up for justice and amplifying the voices of those who face oppression. The Philippines and other affected countries need global support to counter this unjust behavior and defend their rightful territories.
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The unfortunate truth, Trump is all talk on China. In reality, Biden was China’s biggest enemy
So far, the incoming Trump team has handled two major China issues: TikTok and the investment-review proposal in the funding bill. In both cases, the CCP got what it wanted. Is this coincidence or the beginning of a pattern?
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Not surprisingly, the GOP talks tough, but its actions are Pro-China all the way.
The GOP is giving China some major wins in this CR package. It looks like they stripped out the Chinese investment restrictions as well as funds going towards replacing Chinese telecom technology in the United States as well. Not good at all from a NatSec perspective
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“The message they are sending is very simple: The Taiwan Strait is ours,” he said, referring to the waters between Taiwan and China.”
Your daily reminder that the CCP is a hegemonic bully
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“Additionally, a uniform resembling that of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) was found on board, raising significant concerns regarding the intentions of these undocumented individuals.”
Philippine Coast Guard Discovers Undocumented Chinese Nationals Aboard Dredger Vessel Harvest 89
On November 26, 2024, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) successfully conducted an operation that led to the discovery of thirteen undocumented Chinese nationals aboard the dredger vessel Harvest 89 that is anchored in Mariveles, Bataan.
Around noon yesterday, the agent of Harvest 89 notified the PCG of the vessel's upcoming departure to its next port of call in San Felipe, Zambales, for dredging operations. However, when the PCG attempted to board the vessel for a Pre-Departure Inspection and to secure the Master's Declaration of Safe Departure (MDSD), the agent denied entry, claiming that all necessary documentation was in order. This prompted personnel from the Coast Guard Substation in Limay, Bataan, to perform a more detailed inspection.
Upon boarding, the PCG composite team discovered nine undocumented Chinese crew members, all without proper documentation. Further investigations revealed that the crew manifest included only eight Filipino crew members. During a follow-up inspection, an additional four undocumented Chinese nationals were found hiding, bringing the total to thirteen.
The names of the undocumented Chinese nationals are:
1. LUO XIAN MING, 30 June 1968, Age 56
2. JIANG HAI GNG, 08 July 1976, Age 48
3. CHEN YU, 06 May 1984, Age 40
4. ZHU ZHENGLI, 11 June 1965, Age 59
5. ZHOU ZHI, 13 December 1976, Age 48
6. ZHOU CHAN GGUI, 27 December 1973, Age 51
7. LI CHUN LIANG, 14 July 1979, Age 45
8. GONG QING SHAN, 24 January 1976, Age 48
9. WANG YU MAN, 08 April 1973, Age 51
10. WEI XUE YU, 07 July 1975, Age 49
11. ZHOU JIB IN, 08 December 1975, Age 49
12. CHENG QING YU, 12 May 1976, Age 48
13. HUA MING QING, 13 April 1974, Age 50
Additionally, a uniform resembling that of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) was found on board, raising significant concerns regarding the intentions of these undocumented individuals.
The PCG is currently coordinating with relevant government agencies to investigate the circumstances surrounding the presence of these Chinese nationals. Efforts are underway to pursue legal action and ensure the custody of these undocumented individuals.
This operation underscores the Philippine Coast Guard's steadfast commitment to safeguarding our maritime borders and ensuring the safety and security of our waters. We will continue our vigilant inspections and take necessary actions to address any violations of maritime laws.
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