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[baykalov]

Ukraine orders Germany to send fighter jets, war ships and submarines now:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1646071161099366400

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https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1645929917014523905

 

[henrik]

This Brazil Airforce 1. but this seems a smaller plane for this Journey. i think he is closer to 80 year old.

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There is another Brazil Airforce flight to Shanghai at the same time.

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[siegecrossbow]

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https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1645929917014523905

MBS: had partners and allies, HAD.

 

[henrik]

Translation: "President Xi is brilliant, super smart, unlike our current dumb US President. Only I am smart enough to take on China, slap tariffs, ban China tech, kill China virus"

He is only complimenting Xi to make Biden look stupid, and once he is office, he will be the biggest anti-China advocate there is.

He also claimed Kim jong-un is top of the line smart in the same video.

 

[baykalov]

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Around 25 U.S. defense contractors plan to send representatives to Taiwan in early May to discuss joint production of drones and ammunition, US Taiwan Business Council President Rupert Hammond-Chambers told Nikkei, as Washington explores various options to help bolster the island's defenses.

The delegation will be led by Steven Rudder, the retired commander of the U.S. Marine Corps Forces Pacific. This would be the first large group of envoys focused specifically on the defense industry to visit Taiwan from the U.S. since 2019.

In addition to talks with representatives from the Taiwanese defense industry, it is looking to meet with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen.

Hammond-Chambers said that Tsai is focused on bolstering Taiwan's defense industry and that the trip is meant "to promote defense industry cooperation with Taiwan."

Regarding the agenda, Hammond-Chambers said the Taiwanese side is interested in drones -- airborne, surface and subsea -- as well as ammunition.

"The U.S. defense industrial base is not adequately prepared for the competitive security environment that now exists," warned Seth Jones, a senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank here, in a January report.

"In a major regional conflict -- such as a war with China in the Taiwan Strait -- the U.S. use of munitions would likely exceed the current stockpiles of the U.S. Department of Defense," Jones wrote. He proposed co-production with overseas partners as a potential solution.

In parallel with the defense industry efforts, the Biden administration is urging some European countries to help arm Taiwan. Almost all of the weaponry that Taiwan has procured from overseas in recent years has come from the U.S.

"It is a widespread opinion of the Biden administration that Taiwan should be able to procure from a variety of different sources," the Biden administration official said.

"We understand areas where it might make sense for some of our allies and partners who manufacture certain capabilities, for those capabilities to be made available to Taiwan," the official said. "In those cases, we definitely are reaching out to those partners."

Three sources involved in the defense partnership between the U.S. and Taiwan said Washington has been reaching out mostly to European countries.

Sweden could be one. The Excalibur guided artillery shell, developed jointly by U.S.-based Raytheon Missiles & Defense and Swedish partner BAE Systems Bofors, can be used in precision strikes and is seen bolstering Taiwan's defensive capabilities.

To export arms developed with a foreign partner to a third country or region, a U.S. company needs approval from that partner's government. The Excalibur was never exported to Taiwan under then-U.S. President Donald Trump because Sweden wanted to avoid backlash from Beijing, according to the three sources. But one said the Biden administration had not dismissed the possibility.

U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy committed to reinforcing Taiwan's self-defense capability at a meeting with Tsai in California last Wednesday.

"The friendship between the people of Taiwan and America is a matter of profound importance to the free world, and it is critical to maintain economic freedom, peace and regional stability," McCarthy stressed.

 

[Hitomi]

CAATSA for telco equipment.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1646104284226891776

No opting out of the spying guys.

 

[siegecrossbow]

No opting out of the spying guys.

It's not spying, it's called "transparency" and "holding the government accountable".

 

[Chevalier]

Seems Ohio event has the following progress.
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Look at Biden and look at the pollution from east Palestine, the Land and the King are One, according to traditional Anglo mandate of the divine right of kings. It is known.
or, to paraphrase the Christian fundamentalist: the anglosphere is being punished for their sins against God’s representative and true chosen people of God: the Chinese People, the HuaXia.

CAATSA for telco equipment.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1646104284226891776

After all the bribes, fines and sucking up that ZTE did, even going so far as to create positions for and pay hefty salaries to three fat Americans to sit in on their boards, ZTE is gonna get pummeled? This is why I’ll never invest in ZTE. unlike Huawei, they lacked cojones. Bytedance gets away with it because of talent despite their kowtowing cuck of a CEO, but ZTE? Any other Chinese mobile company can replace It.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1645790912868667394

strange how the US is everything their propaganda says about communists etc


Let them eat cake? Nah, let them eat gold plastered cheese toasties. How American.

 

[zbb]

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Official PLA business get back to your drinks.

Interesting that this is happening two weeks after Tsai's US "transit". It's close enough in time to still be considered a response to Tsai's US "transit". It's also far enough apart to be argued as unrelated, which would then establish such no-fly zones as part of the regular status quo.

 

[Michaelsinodef]

Interesting that this is happening two weeks after Tsai's US "transit". It's close enough in time to still be considered a response to Tsai's US "transit". It's also far enough apart to be argued as unrelated, which would then establish such no-fly zones as part of the regular status quo.

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its no fly zone is because of a falling satellite object, not related to the current drills i think. Also PRC has also informed Japan it seems about it early on, can believe that they also informed SK and Taiwan ahead of time as well if thats the case probably (despite the ongoing drills)