The People’s Liberation Army Eastern Theater Command, which is in charge of the East China Sea, said on Monday it is dispatching Army, Navy, Air Force and Rocket Force troops to areas surrounding Taiwan.

The drills, code-named “Justice Mission 2025,” are the first such exercises since April.

The theater command said the drills serve as a “serious warning to ‘Taiwan Independence’ separatist forces and external interference forces.”

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The United States on Wednesday approved $11.1 billion US in arms sales to Taiwan, the largest ever weapons package for the island which is under increasing military pressure from China.

The Taiwan arms sale announcement is the second under U.S. President Donald Trump’s current administration, and comes as Beijing ramps up its military and diplomatic pressure against Taiwan, whose government rejects Beijing’s sovereignty claims.

The proposed arms sales cover eight items, including High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS), howitzers, Javelin anti-tank missiles, Altius loitering munition drones and parts for other equipment, Taiwan’s Defence Ministry said in a statement.

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The director-general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry’s Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, Kanai Masaaki, arrived in Beijing on Monday afternoon.

During the visit, Kanai is expected to meet with Chinese officials, including the director-general of the Department of Asian Affairs of the Foreign Ministry, Liu Jinsong.

It is believed Kanai intends to explain that Takaichi’s remark about a possible Taiwan emergency did not deviate from the Japanese government’s position regarding Taiwan.

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The powerful storm dumped torrential rain on Taiwan’s eastern region. The downpour caused a barrier lake in the eastern county of Hualien to overflow. Fire authorities revised the death toll down from 17 to 14, citing duplicated information.

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China’s Commerce Ministry said it added 28 countries to an export-control list over national security concerns.

According to Chinese state media Xinhua citing the ministry, the companies include Lockheed Martin’s Missiles and Fire Control, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics and Lockheed Martin Missile System Integration Lab.

Other targeted companies included Raytheon Missile Systems and Boeing Defense.

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More than 150,000 people living in the south-eastern Chinese province of Fujan have been relocated to safer areas in anticipation of the storm.

It comes after widespread flooding and landslides across Taiwan and the Philippines, killing at least 21 people.

The Philippines says it is “racing against time” to contain an oil spill after a tanker carrying 1.5 million litres of industrial fuel capsized and sank off of the country’s coast.

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This year’s exercises have been updated to include what Taiwan’s Defense Ministry has called “unscripted” scenarios to better simulate wartime conditions, a change one defense analyst told Newsweek was adopted after the “wake-up call” of Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

The drills, which will take place through Friday in strategic areas across Taiwan, come as Taipei faces increasing pressure from Beijing. China claims Taiwan as its territory, though Beijing’s Chinese Communist Party-led government has never ruled the island.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has stressed that eventual unification with Taiwan is inevitable, through force if necessary. Chinese forces encircled Taiwan with major air, ground, and sea-based drills in May after the inauguration of Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te, a critic of Beijing who emphasized Taiwan’s sovereignty in his inaugural speech.

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Greetings from Tyler,

Joe Biden’s misstatements are at the top of the list.  Are these merely mix-ups which happen to everybody now and again, or something more serious.  You almost hate to watch him appear some-where, because you know it will be an embarrassment,  but it’s like a train-wreck.  You can’t look away.  To say that the Democrats are in disarray would be an understatement.  Good luck getting Jill out of there, and Joe would rather give up something valuable than make her mad.  

So purportedly Obama is scheming with other bigwigs, wondering what they do to get him out of the race, and the sooner the better.  You almost don’t want to know what they’ve decided, but it looks like they need to ditch him.  But who will take his place?  Everybody else is polling lower.  Maybe it doesn’t matter.  Have they already thrown in the towel?

They’ve already got Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon in jail, and they better be enjoying it, because they’re next, and they know it.  They’ve decided to go for broke in defeating Trump.  It almost doesn’t matter who they put forward, they’ve just got to beat Trump!  If he stoops to the level they have in their efforts to destroy and devastate, they’ve got a lot to worry about.  They’ve bankrupted Rudy Giuliani, and they still act like they can call the shots.  But not for much longer.  It’s almost refreshing watching them squirm.

Biden is embarrassing them every time he opens his mouth, something either incomprehensible or unbelievable comes out of his whispering mouth.  Can you imagine the histrionics of his handlers?  They must die a thousand deaths.  Behind the curtain of course.  

The leaders know they’ve got to put somebody else up, but who?  You know the choices, and none check all the boxes.  It’s come out that all the other candidates for the job have worse poll numbers than the pretender, so what to do?  

The media is expressing shock, but they’ve been running interference since the beginning.  It’s starting to look like they’re going to get their comeuppance.  

The rest of the world is having a good laugh at our expense.  They may be fooling somebody, but it’s so obvious that the dude can’t hack it anymore.  Who’s going to tell Jill?   And what happens after that?  The drumbeat continues and gets louder.  But Joe may be the best they can do.  

We here in Texas got the outer bands of the hurricane that has the power out for hundreds of thousands in Houston.  It’s cool here, especially for Summer.  They’ve been preaching this global warming gospel for the past 50 years, and the Summer is just like I remember it as a kid.  Think of it, we’ve got battery powered everything, and some of it actually works.  Unfortunately transportation is not ready for prime time.  They think they’ll put us all in battery cars by some chosen date?  Yeah, thanks anyway.  You hardly see battery cars around here, but this is Texas.  

Taiwan has seen Chinese fighter jets.  You wonder, with the United States in the present disarray, what will the bad guys do while we’ve got this situation?  It’s a dangerous time for the United States and our allies.  They must be scared to death.

The pretender is doing everything he can think of to reassure everybody, and mushes up his words too often.  Everybody’s going to make a mistake sooner or later, but this guy’s making them all the time.

Have things not gone wrong?  Do we not have a war in Ukraine that threatens to start WWIII? Do we not have a war in the Middle East that’s gone on too long already.  Who’s running the show?  Most think it’s Obama.  He doesn’t think things are fair!    

The next five months are a dangerous time for the United States.  They think they can bring Eastern Europe into NATO?  You think Russia is scared?  Putin sees everything we do.  Viktor Orban is making the rounds, but he supports Trump and claims his efforts are fact-finding. 

We’ve got all kinds of nonsense going on in the U. S. that our enemies are wise to.  Let’s pray our enemies don’t take advantage of the situation.

Mark

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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz leaves for China on Saturday for a three-day diplomatic visit that includes meetings with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

Accompanied by a high-level business delegation, the German leader is expected to address grievances over the trade deficit between the EU common market and the world’s second-largest economy.

Scholz is also expected to question China’s ties with Russia amid the Ukraine war and Beijing’s aggressiveness toward Taiwan — a self-ruled island China claims as its own.

Scholz is scheduled to meet Xi and Chinese Premier Li Qiang in Beijing on Tuesday, the last day of his trip. This is Scholz’s second trip to China as chancellor — he completed his first visit in November 2022.

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The project, unveiled by the three countries in 2023, involves Australia acquiring nuclear-powered attack submarines as part of the allies’ efforts to push back against China’s growing power in the Indo-Pacific region.

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