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“Israel had spent months smuggling in parts for hundreds of quadcopter drones rigged with explosives—in suitcases, trucks and shipping containers—as well as munitions that could be fired from unmanned platforms, people familiar with the operation said.” wsj.com/world/middle-e…

Snoopy Scooter spotted in Taiwan

I hope this is the timeline where Xi Jinping's daughter, Xi Mingze, becomes Empress of China and Kim Jong Un's daughter, Kim Ju Ae, becomes Queen of (North) Korea, but I don't think I'm that lucky

Footage of THAAD in action

Well researched story. I like it very much. But - I disagree with the title - I don’t think the Taiwanese see him as “Taiwan’s most powerful friend in Washington” The China Hawks’ China Hawk thewirechina.com/2025/06/15/the…

"would not align with [country name] national interests" = China is against it

Dear Lord, China just working overtime to make all of us who said "Ackshually it is Quite Different than 1990s Japan" look like total idiots

shoot it down

1/17 I'm all in favor of myth-busting but this article seems to miss the point. To my knowledge, and contrary to Sharma's claim, no one has ever argued that the consumption share of China's GDP is low because consumption has grown slowly. ft.com/content/bf1e87…

Great piece from Yaroslav Trofimov. Many (but not all) of the lessons learned from Ukraine conflict over the last 3 years only apply to wars where one doesn’t expect to have air superiority

In 2021, #Iran and #China signed an agreement that a Saudi think tank described as such: It is important for Arab countries to take measures in advance against the economic, political and security challenges that such a qualitative Chinese-Iranian rapprochement may pose due to

#Iran pundit expresses dismay that #Russia has not stepped up to offer Tehran any military assistance, not even air defense systems that Iran had bought. If I had a cent for every time the New York Times said Russia and China will join Iran in case of war with Israel/US...

Not an original thought from me, but Beijing applied the lessons (or the analogies) from such internal struggles for power to its struggle for power with the US

Not sure what it means to say the US *wants* to maintain its hegemony/primacy/order when it doesn't act to maintain it

The East wind may be prevailing over the West wind, but not in terms of US military weight