I hope the Russians bring along a tugboat to help the North Korean ships keep up:
Kim Kyou-hyun (C, back), chief of the National Intelligence Service, attends a plenary session of the intelligence committee at the National Assembly in Seoul on Sept. 4, 2023. (Pool photo) (Yonhap)
Russia proposed conducting three-way naval exercises with North Korea and China when Moscow’s defense minister held a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in late July, South Korea’s intelligence agency was quoted as saying Monday.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu made the proposal when he held a one-on-one meeting with the North’s leader, National Intelligence Service (NIS) Director Kim Kyou-hyun said during a close-door briefing to the parliamentary intelligence committee, according to Rep. Yoo Sang-bum of the ruling People Power Party.
All roads in China's Belt and Road Initiative do not lead to prosperity. As the project turns 10, @FukuyamaFrancis and @mbennon caution that more needs to be done to curtail the potential it has bred for bad debts, bailouts, and bankruptcy. https://t.co/Wmovsxc2tY
Taiwan isn't *just* worth defending because of CHIPS.
Letting Taiwan fall cedes the South and East China Seas to China, leaving Japan, S. Korea, ASEAN & the entire Pacific Theater vulnerable to naval blockades, severe food / energy disruptions and national security incursions. https://t.co/CULPil8YfH
Starting with the military exercises of August 2022, there have been notable – and apparently permanent – changes in Beijing’s aerial incursions into Taiwan’s ADIZ.https://t.co/KTSJXM1KQf
I have always suspected that many agitators and protesters are knowingly or unknowingly paid off by Chinese and Russian operatives to cause racial discontent in the U.S. and now we know in at least this case it is happening:
Imani Wj Wright speaks during an exclusive interview with CNN. Wright responded to a posting on Upwork that likely was funded by a pro-Beijing group to arrange a protest.
As they pumped their fists in the air and held signs declaring “Peace 4 All” and “Stop the Violence,” a small group of Americans that gathered in downtown Washington last summer was nearly indistinguishable from the thousands of others who gather in the nation’s capital every year to protest.
But there was a striking difference: The protest was likely funded by pro-Beijing operatives as part of a plan that is aimed at undermining American democracy and promoting China’s economic interests, researchers from Mandiant, a cybersecurity firm owned by Google reported this week.
Mandiant’s report suggests the pro-Beijing group paid an American to arrange the protest – a 24-year-old musician and entrepreneur from Baltimore – who told CNN in an exclusive interview that he didn’t know the organization could be a Shanghai-based public relations firm promoting the Chinese government’s interests.
You can read more at the link, but even if you look at it at the macro-level entire organizations are paid off by the Chinese. For example the NBA will say nothing about human rights issues in China which are far worse than anything going on in the U.S. They do this simply to maintain television viewership in China which brings in revenue to the league.
Xi’s foreign investment playbook: arrest foreign business leaders, raid foreign business offices, chase foreign investment out of Hong Kong, and steal IPR. Thanks to Xi-nomics, investors are in search of a new financial center in Asia, and that opportunity is Japan.… pic.twitter.com/1ZxrLRiJeU
Who is being responsible, and who is being reckless with their rhetoric over nuclear power plants? Japan was transparent from the get-go, sought international scientific review, and consulted neighbors. China, on the other hand, dumps, discredits, and debases. pic.twitter.com/7orDv3CSbJ
