🚨A 3rd 🇨🇳 #China Coast Guard ship, CCG 5303, now arriving from the west to join the vessel swarm at Scarborough Shoal in the 🇵🇭 #Philippines ' exclusive economic zone--which I first reported yesterday & was then confirmed by Philippine Coast Guard here:
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#Sentinel2 🛰️📷12 APR
Union Banks, Whitsun Reef

Many 🇨🇳Maritime Militia vessels visible anchored, some rafted together.

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🚨Happening now: 🇨🇳PRC vessel swarm at Scarborough Shoal in the 🇵🇭 #Philippines ' exclusive economic zone. Includes at least #China Coast Guard 3106 (currently running AIS-dark) & CCG 3302 plus 10 large Qiong Sansha Yu maritime militia ships. [🧵1/2]

Suresh MD Rajesh Pendharkar Suraj Berry MT Anderson Tom Bike Andrew Erickson 艾立信 Britsky Charlie B Cecilia Sykala Duan Dang Ryan Chan 陳家翹 #Liaoning #CV16 leaving #Dalian Harbour for 2nd Post Refit Trials, 12 Apr 24:02:28:46 UTC. 04 Tugs in company. Carrier 1st PRT lasted well over 20 days in March 24. 📸 #Landsat 🛰️ @moochikal Rajesh Pendharkar Suraj Berry MT Anderson Tom Bike Andrew Erickson 艾立信 Britsky Ray Powell

Andrew Erickson 艾立信 The main large dish antenna is probably autonomously controlled from #Beijing directly.
No additions noticed on low-res as of 4/9/2024.

🚨 on Apr 10, RSF’s Taipei-based Advocacy Officer Aleksandra Bielakowska was detained for 6 hours, searched, and questioned at Hong Kong's international airport before being deported from the territory. She was on a mission, along with RSF’s Asia-Pacific Bureau Director Cédric…

Rightly in the news now... Any updates you can offer, 卫纳夜格.巴特 Col Vinayak Bhat (Retd) @Raj47?

“.. Fifteen years ago today, Keith Bradsher published this piece, featured in the upper-right corner of the printed edition of the The New York Times.”

- Michael Granoff

Keith Bradsher $FXI
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That might be a little optimistic. Spending may be up 1.1% since 2019, but in those four years real GDP was up 20% and nominal GDP up 28%. This suggests that Chinese are spending a much smaller share of their income per trip than they were in 2019.

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Chinese tourists spent 1.1% more per trip during the holiday break in 2023 than in an in 2019, the first time we've seen an increase since the pandemic started. This, according to Bloomberg, adds to signs that consumption is recovering.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Economics

Beijing's armed forces probe extends to an important part of the military industrial complex: China investigates senior executive at top defence group ft.com/content/f54616… via @ft

Changing Chinese Military Posture…

New article out trying to raise awareness of and need to better understand what is changing in the air and waters around Taiwan.

In short, hold on tensions are not going to improve…

dailysignal.com/2024/04/09/cal…

'If #China ’s old people formed their own country, it would be the 4th most populous in the world, right behind America.'

economist.com/china/2024/04/…

'This silver-haired state would be growing fast, too. China’s over-60 #population sits at 297m, or 21% of the total. By 2050 those…

Important message from Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro at Navy League of the United States #SAS2024 on opportunities to partner with shipbuilders in ROK/Japan, building a culture of excellence & accountability in acquisition, + moving faster than the budget cycle on VLS at sea rearming. Key quotes:
navy.mil/Press-Office/S…

It's not clear who will be the Minister of Foreign Affairs, with speculation about Lin Chia-lung. Media speculation has focused on whether he or Cheng Wen-tsan may not be in the cabinet

Likewise, if so, Liu Shyh-fang to be Minister of the Interior, Li Ming-yen to be Minister of Transportation and Communications, Pan Meng-an to be Presidential Office secretary-general, Lin Yu-chang to be DPP secretary-general

Anyway, media speculation is that Joseph Wu to become National Security Council secretary-general, Tsai Ming-yen to stay as National Security Bureau director, Wellington Koo to be Minister of Defense

Not all positions to be announced today, Cho Jung-tai states, this will occur in waves. It looks like the DPP is still evaluating public opinion and trying to finalize positions