#Taiwan's military mobilised forces & said it was confident it could protect the island, after #China started 2 days of #punishment drills around Taiwan in what it said was a response to "separatist acts".
The exercises in #TaiwanStrait & around groups of Taiwan-controlled islands…,come 3 days after #Lai Ching-te took office as Taiwan's new #president, a man Beijing detests as a #separatist.
China shows off its robot ‘dogs of war’ in Cambodia
"Handlers kept the dogs of war on the leash, demonstrating only their walking capabilities to watching journalists and top brass — not their shooting skills." https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2024/05/17/2003818006
By deepening economic relations with both #China and #Russia, #Orbán hopes to give #Hungary an oversized say in global decision-making. And his “friendship” with #Putin is feeding the ever-growing clientelism within his government and funding his cronies.
For example, while other European countries have been downgrading the size of their staff at Russian embassies and consulates, staff numbers at the Russian Embassy in Budapest are on the rise.
#China's internet #censors have deleted a video in which #children at a private #PerformingArts school in the southwestern province of #Sichuan dance to British rock band #PinkFloyd's 1979 hit "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2" which featured a choir of #schoolchildren protesting overbearing authority & "thought control" in #education.
The Chinese government is using extreme forms of pressure to coerce Tibetans to relocate their long-established villages, according to a report by Human Rights Watch
They did the same thing to Japan in the 1980s. The US made sure that Japan would not become its rival in the Pacific. (Japan has been a very submissive ally with a huge US military presence including in the Tokyo area.) Had the US not weakened Japan, it would have been so much easier to contain China. #china
Die chinesische Marine (PLAN) ist dabei, ihren dritten Flugzeugträger zu erproben, um ihn dann in Dienst zu stellen. Das Modell 003 war ein Schock für die westliche Marine, da die Chinesen mit einem Schlag von den ersten zwei Trägern mit einem veralteten sowjetischen Design zur neuesten Träger-Generation der US-Navy aufgeschlossen haben.