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Beijing is pressuring other governments to send Uyghurs and other groups back to China where they will be subject to torture and enforced disappearances. In response, Department of State will immediately take steps to impose visa restrictions on government officials involved in these

Need? Zero.

Russian security chief Shoigu arrives in North Korea for talks with Kim Jong Un cstu.io/9eb2a2

I’m comfortable with this as long as Pete Hegseth makes Musk double pinky promise not to use the information for business advantage or share it with his BFFs in the CCP.

“Nice deep-sea transoceanic cable you’ve got there. It’d be a shame if something happened to it.”

Decline is a choice.

Cops are not warriors. They enforce the law. We should not think of them as warriors and they should not think of themselves as warriors.

SMIC set up a branch in Taiwan posing as a Samoa-based company and tried to hire local talent, prosecutors from Taiwan’s Investigation Bureau said Friday in a statement. Local investigators raided 34 locations and conducted 90 interrogations this month as part of a large-scale

As reported, this is a recipe for world war. washingtonpost.com/national-secur…

“I am Spartacus.”

Calculating the appropriate share of GDP Taiwan should spend on defense

Eh. This presumes that Republicans are embarrassed by budget deficits. Which they are not.

As long as Taiwan holds its defense spending steady, it’ll get to 10% of GDP in no time.

“legends”

W/ Michael “In A Move Likely To Anger China” Mazza: “Relations between Russia & China today do not remotely resemble those of the 1960s and 1970s. It would be a grave mistake for the U.S. to attempt a similar approach to that dictated by the facts of 1971. Such a policy is destined to fail.” thehill.com/opinion/intern…

How does the US break up the Russia-China ‘strategic partnership’?  It can't and it won't. My latest with Shay Khatiri for The Hill: thehill.com/opinion/intern…

Kind of weird how the man with no cards left to play keeps, uh, playing cards

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