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“China's powerful Central Military Commission has shrunk to its smallest size in decades under the leadership of Xi Jinping … with analysts saying it highlights the personalisation of his control - and efforts to make the military combat-ready.” newsweek.com/chinas-disappe…

What do Wang Yi and Mick Jagger have in common? 🇨🇳's Ministry of Foreign Affairs selection of photos along w/ their statement after the China-EU 13th Round of High-level Strategic Dialogue points to classic Wang Yi as teacher & EU HR/VP Kaja Kallas as student arrangement. 1/

Andreas Fulda 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 That's the Department of the Bleeding Obvious.

Calls for 🇩🇪 and European 🇪🇺 to partially decouple / de-risk from 🇨🇳 have fallen on deaf ears. This makes a much a bigger conflict with the Chinese Communist Party in the future much more likely. As a result we may get full decoupling. We will only have ourselves to blame then.

“Eine vollständige Entkopplung von China sei zwar ‘weder realistisch noch wünschenswert’. Wohl brauche es aber mehr Unabhängigkeit, um ‘industrielle Souveränität’ zu erlangen” faz.net/aktuell/wirtsc…

Es tut mir leid, aber angesichts der dramatischen Zuspitzung der Lage grenzt diese Selbstgerechtigkeit an Realitätsflucht. Wenn wir (Deutschland, Europa) jetzt nicht in den 5. Gang hochschalten, wird Putin den Krieg gewinnen. Dann ist nicht nur in der Ukraine Feuer unterm Dach.

FIFA are 100% culpable for Jamal Musiala's injury. 😠 These players should be on holiday, not playing another tournament after an 11-month season. Praying it's not as serious as it looks. 💔

Wer im Krieg Russlands gegen die Ukraine keine Bedrohung Europas sieht, ist politisch blind. Wer Russlands Vorgehen "versteht", ist moralisch verkommen.

After this article was published, the SCMP has erased the word "afford" from both headline and article. Without mentioning why or even that it was altered. Demand from sources, or editors feeling uneasy? Whatever the case, "afford" is already making rounds in other medias.

Quite the statement from the NATO Secretary General

Shocking. .President Donald J. Trump, Putin is not respecting you. He thinks you are weak. Please prove him wrong.

In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll introduce an American national security policy professional and the current under secretary of defense for policy, Elbridge Colby (Elbridge Colby). He’s best-known for fighting with cartoon dogs online and for halting military aid to Ukraine. 1/21

This is good. But let’s not forget that this aid was already approved by Congress and was stalled by the Trump administration, only released after international pressure.

»Die Gefährdung von deutschem Personal« sowie die »Störung des Einsatzes« seien »vollkommen inakzeptabel«: Offenbar hat das chinesische Militär ein deutsches Flugzeug in der EU-Operation »Aspides« ins Visier genommen. 🇩🇪🇨🇳spiegel.de/politik/auswae…

“Es ist nicht die erste Attacke Chinas. Schon mehrfach hat das Militär gegen westliche Flugzeuge Laser eingesetzt, mit denen Piloten geblendet und die Elektronik in den Flugzeugen gestört wird.” 🇩🇪🇨🇳bild.de/politik/regier…

July 8: 🇩🇪 Foreign Ministry summoned the 🇨🇳 ambassador to Germany after China's military used a laser to target a German aircraft taking part in the EU’s ASPIDES operation which aims to protect maritime security in the Red Sea. theguardian.com/world/live/202…

It seems the penny is finally dropping; Putin and Trump’s interactions are not between two friends (as Trump probably still believes at some level), they’re between a seasoned intelligence officer and his gullible and easily manipulated asset.

“Iran has received deliveries of Chinese-made HQ-9B long-range surface-to-air missile (SAM) batteries in the weeks following a de facto ceasefire with Israel on June 24, 2025” 🇨🇳🇮🇷 #CRINK armyrecognition.com/news/army-news…

Unglaublich! Thread🧵und langer Text: Prof. Heinz Gärtner war wieder einmal am Kanal von Pascal Lottaz zu Gast und das NATO Narrativ darf natürlich nicht fehlen: "aber die Idee wäre gewesen, diesen Krieg auch vorzubeugen, man kann jetzt nicht sagen zu verhindern, man hats nicht