YES. At long last. The JMSDF ditches its focus on escorting convoys and reorganizes around "surface battle groups". Article by 🇯🇵Takahashi Kosuke（高橋 浩祐） navalnews.com/naval-news/202…

Thought: the Confucian preoccupation with "rectification of names" 正名 is similar to what Orwell was saying in "Politics and the English Language": poor usage of language, where meanings grow obscure and debased, can represent or lead to breakdown of politics and culture.

German warships to pass through Taiwan Strait this month, Spiegel says – Reuters: ‘Spiegel cited unspecified sources as saying Beijing would not be formally notified of the German ships’ passage to emphasise that Berlin views the trip as normal.’ reuters.com/world/german-w…

Call me an optimist about consistency from platform to program but it’s hard to insist that Trump’s new tariffs would be taxes paid by Americans, fudge on why you continued/increased the old tariffs (aka taxes) paid by Americans, and go ahead and impose another round of tariffs.

‼️ NEW: Chinese undertaking offers made by the Chinese EV producers to offset the planned EU countervailing duties have been rejected, the European Commission says.

China’s grip on the global supply of rare earth minerals critical to high technology is undercutting projects from the US to Japan trib.al/mOv0ipW

US officials are headed to Beijing this week amid concerns about China’s economic trajectory, especially its macroeconomic imbalances and industrial overcapacity trib.al/QVzIFaA

Spent the day camped out in front of this Taiwan office, trying to figure out how their brand of pagers is connected to Hungary and Lebanon and then simultaneously blew up on Tuesday. Story here, tho still tons of Q’s unanswered: npr.org/2024/09/18/g-s…

Japanese child stabbed in Shenzhen dies japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/09/1…