https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-02/yellen-heads-to-china-this-week-to-press-beijing-on-overcapacity
Yellen Heads to China This Week to Press Beijing on Overcapacity
Treasury chief will also stop in export powerhouse Guangdong
Yellen has slammed China for industrial policies roiling world
By Christopher Condon
April 2, 2024 at 9:13 PM GMT+5:30
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will this week travel to China for the second time in nine months, aiming to press her counterparts on a build-up of industrial overcapacity that poses threats to the rest of the world’s economies.
Yellen will spend two days in the southern commercial and manufacturing hub of Guangzhou beginning April 5 before heading to Beijing for two more days of talks, the Treasury announced Tuesday.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-02/kim-jong-un-faces-annihilation-in-nearly-all-korea-war-scenarios
Kim Jong Un Faces Annihilation in Nearly All Korea War Scenarios
Despite the risks, the North Korean leader’s provocations could quickly spin out of control
By Jon Herskovitz
April 3, 2024 at 3:30 AM GMT+5:30
After decades of empty threats, much of the world tunes out when North Korea vows to unleash destruction on its enemies. But in the past few months, some prominent analysts began warning that Kim Jong Un may actually be serious about preparing for war.
Now in his 13th year running North Korea, Kim is more aggressively testing the boundaries of what his adversaries will tolerate. Backed by rapid progress in his nation’s nuclear capabilities and missile program, the 40-year-old dictator began 2024 by removing the goal of peaceful unification from North Korea’s constitution and declaring he had the right to “annihilate” South Korea.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-02/kim-jong-un-faces-annihilation-in-nearly-all-korea-war-scenarios
Kim Jong Un Faces Annihilation in Nearly All Korea War Scenarios
Despite the risks, the North Korean leader’s provocations could quickly spin out of control
By Jon Herskovitz
April 3, 2024 at 3:30 AM GMT+5:30
After decades of empty threats, much of the world tunes out when North Korea vows to unleash destruction on its enemies. But in the past few months, some prominent analysts began warning that Kim Jong Un may actually be serious about preparing for war.
Now in his 13th year running North Korea, Kim is more aggressively testing the boundaries of what his adversaries will tolerate. Backed by rapid progress in his nation’s nuclear capabilities and missile program, the 40-year-old dictator began 2024 by removing the goal of peaceful unification from North Korea’s constitution and declaring he had the right to “annihilate” South Korea.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-02/ai-energy-crisis-boosts-need-for-more-efficient-chips
AI Energy Crisis Boosts Interest in Chips That Do It All
So-called in-memory computing is drawing new funding—and even inspiring some geopolitical maneuvering.
By Jane Lanhee Lee
April 3, 2024 at 1:30 AM GMT+5:30
To understand a key reason artificial intelligence requires so much energy, imagine a computer chip serving as a branch of the local library and an AI algorithm as a researcher with borrowing privileges. Every time the algorithm needs data, it goes to the library, known as a memory chip, checks out the data and takes it to another chip, known as a processor, to carry out a function.
AI requires massive amounts of data, which means there are the equivalent of billions of books being trucked back and forth between these two chips, a process that burns through lots of electricity. For at least a decade, researchers have tried to save power by building chips that could process data where it’s stored. “Instead of bringing the book from the library to home, you’re going to the library to do your work,” says Stanford University professor Philip Wong, a top expert in memory chips who’s also a consultant to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-02/navy-projects-year-or-more-delay-to-first-new-icbm-sub-deivery
US Navy Sees Delays of a Year or More for New ICBM Submarine
Delay of Navy’s top weapons program disclosed in new review
Columbia-class sub to form crucial component of nuclear triad
By Anthony Capaccio
April 3, 2024
The US Navy is pushing back the first delivery of its next-generation nuclear-armed submarine by 12-16 months, the most significant schedule slip to date for the service’s top acquisition program.
The Navy disclosed the delays in the Columbia-class submarine program in a new shipbuilding review that was announced Tuesday. The first of the Columbia class’s 12 subs, all of which will carry intercontinental ballistic missiles, had been set to be delivered sometime in 2027.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3257632/call-between-xi-jinping-and-joe-biden-conveys-stability-deep-disconnect-us-china-ties-analysts
Call between Xi Jinping and Joe Biden conveys stability, deep disconnect in US-China ties: analysts
‘Constructive’ conversation took place arranged around priorities that American leader ‘holds so seriously’, says national security spokesman
If US insists on ‘suppressing China’s hi-tech development’ and depriving it of legitimate right to develop, country ‘will not sit idly by,’ Xi says
Ji Siqi
3 Apr 2024
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3257624/us-strongly-opposes-chinas-renaming-areas-along-disputed-indian-border
US ‘strongly opposes’ China’s renaming of areas along disputed Indian border
The response comes days after Beijing says it changed names of mountains, rivers and residential areas in the Indian-administered Arunachal Pradesh state
New Delhi, a US ally, rejects China’s ‘senseless attempt’ and says Beijing is ‘altering reality’
Khushboo Razdan
3 Apr 2024
https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/3257633/north-korea-says-it-test-fired-new-solid-fuel-hypersonic-missile
North Korea says it test-fired new solid-fuel hypersonic missile
The launch was overseen by Kim Jong-un, who said the weapon showed the ‘absolute superiority’ of Pyongyang’s defence technology
Hypersonic missiles are more difficult to intercept, while missiles with solid fuel can be moved and stored more easily and be ready to launch at short notice
Reuters
3 Apr 2024
https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3257621/south-china-sea-us-philippines-japan-australia-hold-naval-drill-sunday-amid-chinas-aggressive
South China Sea: US, Philippines, Japan, Australia to hold naval drill on Sunday amid China’s aggressive actions
It would be the first full-scale exercise involving the countries aimed at enhancing interoperability among their forces, amid China’s continuing aggressive actions
In August, the same countries conducted joint training on offshore replenishment off the northwest Philippines
Kyodo
3 Apr 2024
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Aerospace-Defense-Industries/Boeing-bets-on-India-R-D-and-supply-chain-seeking-turnaround
Boeing bets on India R&D and supply chain, seeking turnaround
Investment builds up U.S. aircraft manufacturer’s largest overseas research base
ARATA SHIGENO and RYOSUKE HANADA, Nikkei staff writers
April 3, 2024 02:11 JST
TOKYO/MUMBAI — Boeing has turned to India as an emerging R&D and supply chain hub as it tries to recover from a series of incidents that have shaken confidence in the U.S. aerospace manufacturer.
In January, Boeing opened a new engineering and technology center in the city of Bengaluru, known as India’s tech capital. The campus cost 16 billion rupees ($191 million), which Boeing said is the largest investment of its kind outside the U.S.
“Today, the middle class of India has 300 million people,” said Ryan Weir, Boeing’s vice president of commercial sales and marketing for India. “That’s over two times [the population] of Japan — almost the size of the whole United State with just the middle class.”
Weir said this demographic will fuel the growth of India’s aviation industry going forward.
Boeing first established a wholly-owned Indian subsidiary in 2003 and has operated a research and development facility there since 2009. The company has added about 1,000 workers annually over the past three years, and now the operation boasts 5,500 engineers, the largest headcount outside the U.S.
The new technology center will coordinate with Boeing’s U.S. arm to develop new aircraft models, underscoring India’s higher profile within Boeing’s umbrella.
Boeing plans to form closer relationships with the over-300 suppliers in India. They provide structural components and electronic devices, among other deliverables.
The U.S. company is expected to support suppliers by facilitating the adoption of high-efficiency production systems and training engineers. These efforts will help improve production across a wide scope.
In India, Boeing is also engaging in local production of critical aircraft components. Last year, a joint venture between Boeing and Indian conglomerate Tata Group started making tail fin structures for the 737. Previously the joint venture mainly made helicopters.
At Boeing, plants for assembling finished aircraft are only located in the U.S. But anticipation is high that the company will someday fully assemble airplanes on Indian soil.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2024/04/01/japan/japan-pacifism-shift-arms-export/
Is Japan leaving pacifism behind?
Faced with regional instability, Tokyo reviews its long-held defense posture
JIO KAMATA
Apr 1, 2024
How a previous generation of Japanese leaders, those who made defense budget and arms export limits a national credo, would view the current shift.
China to make 5nm chips with SAQP process
An old technology may help make some 5nm chips but whether it’s suitable for mass production is another matter
By JEFF PAO
APRIL 3, 2024
Dodgy publications boost China’s science stature
China’s universities just grabbed 8 of the top 10 spots in one worldwide science ranking – without changing a thing
By CAROLINE WAGNER
APRIL 3, 2024
Iran juggling a multitude of bad choices
Israel’s lethal strike on Iran in Syria leaves Tehran with few good options to respond without risking direct involvement in a wider war
By FRANCESCO SISCI
APRIL 2, 2024
Philippines hopes US history won’t repeat itself, again
Marcos to meet same officials who left Manila in the lurch amid China’s South China Sea aggression during the Obama administration
By GRANT NEWSHAM
APRIL 2, 2024
Rethinking tanks on the modern battlefield
Russia-Ukraine war has underlined the need for a new generation of tank designs and crew safety features
By STEPHEN BRYEN
APRIL 2, 2024
Compounding interest of disasters in the making
Catastrophes in government, business and military cannot be eliminated but is enough being done to prevent them?
By REUVEN BRENNER
APRIL 2, 2024
https://www.ft.com/content/254c3b86-2cb9-4c71-824b-dacacbbc9871
Nato plans $100bn ‘Trump-proof’ fund for Ukraine
Proposed five-year military aid package would shield Kyiv from ‘winds of political change’
Henry Foy in Brussels
APRIL 2, 2024
https://www.ft.com/content/9285ed6e-fb71-4b10-bf5c-b4f83a140675
For all its faults, democracy is still better than autocracy
All the evidence shows that despotism cannot consistently deliver the economic goods for developing countries
Martin Wolf
APRIL 2, 2024
https://www.ft.com/content/34ac0176-1094-438f-9362-18c0d271a195
Israel seeks to deter Iranian proxy attacks with consulate assault
Israel believes the Islamic republic must pay for actions of militias it backs. But Tehran will now feel obliged to hit back
James Shotter and Guy Chazan in Jerusalem and Andrew England in London
APRIL 2, 2024
https://www.ft.com/content/03562c36-a394-47ab-9581-f2f06fc190a7
Putin is waiting for Washington to go silent
The Russian leader sees an opportunity to re-establish a sphere of influence in Europe
Gideon Rachman
APRIL 2, 2024
https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2024/04/01/how-the-communist-party-can-still-monitor-you-even-outside-china
How the Communist Party can still monitor you, even outside China
Also on the daily podcast: the economics of skiing and hoarding at museums
Apr 1st 2024
There are fears about TikTok, but it’s not the only social media platform that the Chinese state might be using to monitor the rest of the world. That’s especially worrying for those in its diaspora who thought they were free. How monopolies are transforming America’s skiing industry (08:59). And just how much stuff are museums sitting on
https://www.ft.com/content/1ddd28cb-0a8b-4dd6-a981-55c0303d78d0
EU exits winter with gas storage at record levels
Analysts say region may hit replenished capacity targets by summer
Gas storage for the EU at the end of March, considered the end of the winter season by the industry, stood at 58.72 per cent full, according to industry body Gas Infrastructure Europe. That is about 3 percentage points higher than the previous high, set last year.
Shotaro Tani in London
APRIL 2, 2024
https://www.reuters.com/science/white-house-directs-nasa-create-time-standard-moon-2024-04-02/
Exclusive: White House directs NASA to create time standard for the moon
By Joey Roulette and Will Dunham
WASHINGTON, April 2 (Reuters) – The White House on Tuesday directed NASA to establish a unified standard of time for the moon and other celestial bodies, as the United States aims to set international norms in space amid a growing lunar race among nations and private companies.
The head of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), according to a memo seen by Reuters, instructed the space agency to work with other parts of the U.S. government to devise a plan by the end of 2026 for setting what it called a Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC).
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/un-us-warns-iran-not-target-it-over-syria-strike-2024-04-02/
At UN, US warns Iran not to target it over Syria strike
By Michelle Nichols
UNITED NATIONS, April 2 (Reuters) – The United States warned Iran on Tuesday not to retaliate against it for an attack on Iran’s embassy compound in Syria, telling the U.N. Security Council it had no prior warning of the strike that Tehran has blamed on Washington’s ally Israel.
The strike on Monday – that Iran said killed two of its generals and five military advisers – marked one of the most significant attacks yet on Iranian interests in Syria, where Israel has stepped up a long-running campaign against Iran.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/several-people-injured-drone-attack-industrial-sites-russias-tatarstan-agencies-2024-04-02/
Russia thwarts Ukrainian drone attack on one of biggest oil refineries
By Reuters
Russia downs drone near major refinery
Drone was near Taneco refinery in Tatarstan
Mayor says no damage to refinery
Refinery capacity is 360,000 barrels per day
MOSCOW, April 2 (Reuters) – Russia on Tuesday repelled a Ukrainian drone attack on one of Russia’s biggest oil refineries, nearly 1,300 km (800 miles) from Ukraine, Russian officials said.
Russian electronic warfare defences intercepted a Ukrainian drone near Tatneft’s (TATN.MM), opens new tab Taneco refinery, one of Russia’s biggest, in Nizhnekamsk.
“It was neutralised by the electronic warfare system,” Ramil Mullin, the mayor of Nizhnekamsk, was quoted as saying by Russian news sites. “There were no casualties or damage.”
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/iran-attack-israel-strike-syria-wz7d8gwvp
Will Iran attack Israel? Damascus strike means nothing is off limits
The Middle East is on the brink of regional war as Iran decides on its next move. Its ambassador in Syria promised a response of ‘the same magnitude and harshness’
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Samer Al-Atrush, Middle East Correspondent
Tuesday April 02 2024, 7.15am BST, The Times
When Israel flattened Iran’s consulate in Damascus on Monday, killing Tehran’s top generals in the country, it also levelled the assumption that anything is off limits in its growing conflict with Tehran.
Iran will now be forced to respond. In recent months Israel had assassinated a number of its generals and senior commanders in Damascus, but this was the first time it had targeted an Iranian diplomatic mission. Iran’s ambassador in Syria, who was unharmed in the attack, promised a response of “the same magnitude and harshness”.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/al-shifa-hospital-gaza-israel-hamas-hb8lz6scl
Al-Shifa hospital in ruins as Israel returns to root out Hamas
As two weeks of a fighting draws to a close, the Israeli Defence Force has hailed its mission as a success but a power vacuum in Gaza means it might not be long until the enemy returns
Anshel Pfeffer, Gaza City
Monday April 01 2024, 10.44pm BST, The Times
The courtyard outside the main entrance to al-Shifa, Gaza City’s largest hospital, had been churned up into dust and transformed into parking for Israeli armoured vehicles.
On the last day of a two-week Israeli operation against Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) members holed up in the hospital, two of the main buildings stood burnt out as fighting went on elsewhere in the complex.
Al-Shifa hospital comprises more than a dozen buildings in the heart of the city. Flotilla 13, the Israeli navy’s commando unit that led the attack that began on March 17, had taken over an outpatient clinic overlooking the complex as its temporary headquarters.
Google to Delete Billions of Chrome Browser Records in Latest Settlement
The internet giant resolved a lawsuit that claimed it had deceived users by tracking their web activity in the Chrome browser’s private Incognito setting.
By NICO GRANT
April 1, 2024
What 10 Years of Modi Rule Has Meant for India’s Economy
Narendra Modi has kept India on its swift upward path among the world’s largest economies. Many Indians are better off, though wealth gaps have widened.
By ALEX TRAVELLI
April 1, 2024
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israel-iran-conflict-threatens-to-spill-into-open-warfare-1bd60453
Israel-Iran Conflict Threatens to Spill Into Open Warfare
Tehran vows to respond to attack that killed top military officials
By Jared Malsin and Benoit Faucon
April 2, 2024 12:19 pm ET
ISTANBUL—The airstrike that killed top Iranian military officials in Syria on Monday threatened to put Israel into open conflict with Iran, illustrating how the countries’ long-simmering shadow war has entered a dangerous new phase.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Ebrahim Raisi vowed on Tuesday to respond to the attack, which Syria and Iran said hit an Iranian consulate. Israel didn’t confirm or deny responsibility for a strike that Israeli analysts said took the country’s covert military campaign against Iran and its allies to another level, because of the diplomatic target and the Iranian leaders who were killed.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-was-good-for-americas-alliances-c23e4638
Trump Was Good for America’s Alliances
He pushed NATO to spend more on defense, expanded the Quad and facilitated the Abraham Accords.
By Alexander B. Gray
April 2, 2024 1:17 pm ET
Foreign-policy experts are predictably fretting over Donald Trump’s re-election campaign. They fear that the former president threatens the alliances and partnerships that have sustained global peace since 1945. Should Mr. Trump return to the White House, the thinking goes, he will be unconstrained by the guardrails that prevented him from torpedoing America’s alliances in his first term and will permanently damage both U.S. security and the international order.
This narrative concedes a point that undermines its premise: The U.S. alliance system didn’t crumble during Mr. Trump’s first term. On the contrary, the Trump administration strengthened relations with partners in the Indo-Pacific, Central and Eastern Europe and the Mideast. Anyone who believes that Mr. Trump was once bound by conventional wisdom but won’t be again—and will wreak havoc on the global order he ostensibly detests—hasn’t been paying attention.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/israel-takes-responsibility-who-else-does-gaza-hamas-war-bombing-ab8f4556
Israel Takes Responsibility. Who Else Does?
All war is hell. Not all who wage it admit their mistakes.
By Matthew Hennessey
April 2, 2024 5:02 pm ET
The breaking-news alerts on your smartphone seldom tell the whole story. Journalists are masters of compression, and the alert is a direct line to readers’ eyeballs. No room for elegance. No space for slant. So instead of complexity you get the short version—the convenient take or the capsule commentary.
Usually that’s enough to get the gist in a busy world. But every once in a while you get more than you bargained for in a bubble notice. You get facts that go beyond the news and reveal a deeper truth.
“Breaking News,” bleated my iPhone Tuesday morning with an alert from the Journal. “Israel has taken responsibility for a strike that has killed seven World Central Kitchen aid workers in Gaza. Benjamin Netanyahu said it was unintentional.”
War is hell. Everyone knows that. Bullets don’t discriminate. No bomb is smarter than the person who dispatches it. When the skies are full of lead, accidents are bound to happen, and when they do, political spinmeisters step forward to deny, deflect, delay and distract.
Not here. Israel has taken responsibility. What a concept.
And what a contrast with its adversary. The only thing Hamas takes responsibility for is doing what it loves: spreading terror and delivering death. When a bomb goes off in a marketplace, it claims responsibility. When a crazed maniac knifes random people on a bus, it claims responsibility. But when the subject is its failure to give Gazans a better life, Hamas throws up its arms. It didn’t take responsibility for the lies it told about the misfired terrorist rocket that hit Gaza City’s Al-Shifa hospital in October, or for that matter for using the hospital as a command center. It doesn’t take responsibility for the human calamity it has unleashed on its people with the unspeakable atrocities of Oct. 7.
No. Hamas, in its rhetoric and propaganda, pushes all responsibility for the suffering of Gazans onto Israel—and not just Israel, onto Jews and Americans. Hamas is always innocent, always at the mercy of perfidious forces.
This performative helplessness allows Hamas to play the perpetual victim when, in fact, it is a murderous gang of dead-end losers. It intentionally killed 1,200 people in a single day. Hamas lusts for blood.
Not so Israel, a nation that stands for life, for hope, for freedom. Israel desires peace and has offered it to the Palestinians repeatedly, who always refuse. The offer stands.
Israel is engaged now, as always, in a fight for survival. Often lied about, Israel nevertheless respects the rules of war. It fights with precision and restrains its soldiers to protect the innocent. It provides food and aid to its enemy. It owns up to its mistakes.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/02/joe-lieberman-op-ed-russian-disinformation/
How to start winning the information war
America needs a robust counternarrative response to Russia’s lies on social media.
By Joseph I. Lieberman and Gordon J. Humphrey
April 2, 2024
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/02/extreme-heat-from-miami-to-melbourne-a-quiet-revolution-is-underway.html
From Miami to Melbourne, a quiet revolution is underway to fend off a silent and invisible killer
PUBLISHED TUE, APR 2 2024
Sam Meredith
Several chief heat officers have been appointed in cities across the globe in recent years, spearheading projects designed to help residents prepare for excessive heat.
Eleni Myrivili, who serves as the global CHO for the U.N.’s human settlement program, said she believes that extreme heat is an often-overlooked problem because it lacks the visible drama of roofs being ripped from homes or streets being turned into rivers.
“Heat, I believe it to the bottom of my heart, is going to be the number one public health challenge that we will be dealing with in the next decade. And we need to prepare for it now,” Myrivili said.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/china-still-rising
China Is Still Rising
Don’t Underestimate the World’s Second-Biggest Economy
By Nicholas R. Lardy
April 2, 2024
Although China is beset by many problems, including those resulting from Xi’s efforts to exert greater control over the economy, exaggerating these problems serves no one. It could even lead to complacency in the face of the very real challenges that China presents to the West.
That is particularly true for the United States. China will likely continue to contribute about a third of the world’s economic growth while increasing its economic footprint, particularly in Asia. If U.S. policymakers underappreciate this, they are likely to overestimate their own ability to sustain the deepening of economic and security ties with Asian partners.
The Moscow Attack Showed Terrorism Is Asia’s Problem Now
Increased geopolitical rivalry is allowing extremist groups to thrive—and threaten everyone.
By Kabir Taneja
April 2, 2024
The U.N. Security Council’s Default Is Deadlock
Countries have used the body’s impasse over conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine to advance their own interests.
APRIL 2, 2024, 12:30 PM
By J. Alex Tarquinio
How the United States Lost Niger
Growing Russian, Chinese, and Iranian influence in the Sahel is testing Washington’s clout in an increasingly strategic continent.
By Cameron Hudson
APRIL 2, 2024
Nobody Actually Knows What Russia Does Next
The West’s warnings about Vladimir Putin’s future plans are getting louder—but not any more convincing.
By Stephen M. Walt
APRIL 2, 2024
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/us-navy-should-make-every-warship-aircraft-carrier-210357
The U.S. Navy Should Make Every Warship Into an ‘Aircraft Carrier’
In the age of uncrewed vehicles and artificial intelligence, every ship of war could—and should—be an “aircraft carrier” of some type or another. The U.S. Navy just might be on to something.
by James Holmes
APRIL 2, 2024
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/china%E2%80%99s-pursuit-copper-changing-latin-america-210171
China’s Pursuit of Copper Is Changing Latin America
Copper mining has always been a highly competitive industry, and the geopolitical imperatives surrounding its production are thickening.
by Scott B. MacDonald Alejandro Trenchi
April 1, 2024
https://thediplomat.com/2024/04/sela-tunnel-indias-border-infrastructure-push-makes-progress/
Sela Tunnel: India’s Border Infrastructure Push Makes Progress
With tensions persisting on the Sino-Indian border, Delhi’s efforts to bolster its infrastructure in critical areas continues.
By Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan
April 01, 2024
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https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202404/1309989.shtml
Can’t bear better China-Australia ties, VOA attempts to kidnap Canberra morally
By Global Times
Published: Apr 02, 2024
Australia’s gradual return to a rational and pragmatic approach to China means the two sides have greater room for more cooperation, a good chance to walk out of the cold winter and jointly step into the warm spring.
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202404/1309971.shtml
US-led NATO is military, nuclear fist of expansionist strategy
By Global Times
Published: Apr 02, 2024
US-NATO exploits similar, or the same means and methods: spreading fear, insecurity and disorientation, demonstrating power through a series of massive “defenders” exercises, offering protection of scarred ones, use of separatism, terrorism and human rights.
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202404/1309997.shtml
Even 100 ‘island chains’ won’t make ‘Taiwan independence’ forces sleep well: Global Times editorial
The strengthening of US-Taiwan military collusion has become entangled with the US’ intense moves to gang up Asia-Pacific allies to build an encirclement defense chain against China, forming a destructive resonance of the same frequency.
By Global Times | 2024/4/3
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202404/1309992.shtml
Deadly attack on Iranian embassy compound in Syria condemned
Iran has blamed Israel for a deadly airstrike on Monday on its Damascus embassy compound in Syria, which killed 13 people including two Iranian generals, and vowed to retaliate. Monday’s attack has been condemned for violating international law and sovereignty as it risked escalating regional tensions amid devastating humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
By GT staff reporters | 2024/4/2
PLA Southern Theater Command conducts live-fire drills along China-Myanmar border
PLA Southern Theater Command conducts live-fire drills along China-Myanm…
The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Southern Theater Command has deployed the army and air force to condu…
PLA Southern Theater Command conducts live-fire drills along China-Myanmar border
The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Southern Theater Command has deployed the army and air force to conduct live-fire drills on the Chinese side of the China-Myanmar border starting from Tuesday, Tian Junli, a spokesperson at the PLA Southern Theater Command, said in a statement on Tuesday, stressing that the command has been prepared at all times to respond to various emergencies and is committed to safeguarding national sovereignty and border stability.
By Guo Yuandan | 2024/4/2
Very nice