BUSTED! Taiwan Coast Guard caught a vessel with Chinese crew onboard carrying 1.9 kg of ketamine (drug) hidden as tea. China-linked vessels were also involved in illegal oyster theft& sand dredging in Taiwan waters. Taiwan is facing growing security challenges in its own waters

Filipino President @bongbongmarcos orders Philippine Navy upgrades to boost deterrence amid #IndoPacific tensions, citing the need to protect the Philippines' interests in #WestPhilippineSea. The move counters China’s assertive actions & growing regional pressure.

Entre 2023-2025, je soulignais régulièrement les difficultés ukrainiennes sur le front et à quel point la position ukrainienne dans la guerre s'était dégradée. Cela m'avait valu attaques personnelles et insultes. Désormais, je souligne que cette position s'est largement améliorée et comment la position russe s'est progressivement détériorée dans la guerre, ce qui me vaut à nouveau des attaques et insultes. Mon suivi du conflit ukrainien a toujours été fait de manière objective, pour parler des faits et non des émotions. Ce qui dérange, c'est que je vais à l'encontre d'une pensée unique dans un sens où dans l'autre. Quand on m'accuse d'avoir changé, je ne peux que répondre que ce n'est pas moi mais bien la situation qui a changé et que je ne fais que témoigner ce que je vois. En 4 ans, j'ai parlé de la situation en Ukraine des milliers de fois, soulignant avant beaucoup d'autres mon scepticisme sur les contres offensives ukrainiennes et mon rejet du pseudo-réalisme qui consistait à dire que la Russie étant un pays plus puissant, elle finirait par gagner la guerre. Mes analyses se sont toujours appuyées sur des données que j'ai moi-même créé ou rassemblées, ce qu'une minorité d'analyste a réelement fait. J'ai conservé des centaines de données et de tweets qui me permettent de suivre sur le long terme l'évolution stratégique et d'anticiper la suite, comme j'ai pu le faire régulièrement. Mes détracteurs me reprochent souvent mon âge et mon manque d'expérience comme seuls arguments. En attendant que je sois assez vieux et expérimenté pour être écouté (et cité dans les médias français, les étrangers n'ont eux pas attendu), je compte bien poursuivre, comme je l'ai toujours fait, au service des faits. Merci à ceux qui continuent de me suivre et de me soutenir.

🚨THE BASHI BREAKOUT: 🇨🇳#China has, for the first time, pushed a paramilitary sovereignty assertion past its own "10-dash line" & beyond the First Island Chain to challenge a maritime negotiation it isn't party to. On May 28, 🇯🇵#Japan & the 🇵🇭#Philippines announced they would delimit their overlapping exclusive economic zones as prescribed by #UNCLOS. Beijing's answer was to send a flotilla through the Bashi Channel & into the open Pacific east of 🇹🇼#Taiwan, into waters that even its own most expansive maps don't (yet) claim. The key is in which ships Beijing sent: China uses its navy to assert capability--what it can do by force. It uses its coast guard & other government ships as a paramilitary force to assert sovereignty--what it claims. Not one ship in this flotilla was a warship, because this was a sovereignty claim. That's what's really new here. For over a decade China used these same gray-zone tactics to assert sovereignty inside its South China Sea "nine-dash line". This week's action pushed somewhere new--going past even the 10th "dash" Beijing added to its 2023 map. Beyond the First Island Chain. This assertion was aimed not at Taiwan alone, but at two 🇺🇸US treaty allies. @China_MFA branded the Japan-Philippine talks "completely illegal and void", while a June 1 @globaltimesnews editorial called the idea "an extraordinary and almost unprecedented absurdity… akin to two neighbors sitting in your living room and discussing how to divide your backyard." Note how China's "backyard" continues to expand. So, in fact, does its "living room". What SeaLight's tracking shows: 🔹 From 1-5 June, CCG cutters Daishan (2502) & Baita (2304) ran the first clockwise patrol over 200nm east of Taiwan's easternmost island--well past the 10th "dash" on Beijing's 2023 map. 🔹 Late on June 7th, a second wave of 3 provincial Maritime Safety Administration cutters & a rescue tug pushed into the Bashi Channel. The formation entered Taiwan's restricted waters ~30nm off the southern tip, drew a 7-ship Taiwan Coast Guard standoff, then also pushed east. Beijing's state media left no doubt about what it all meant, first with an official @XHNews/@globaltimesnews announcement, then a June 7 Global Times viewpoint column naming the operation "a sovereignty declaration with both legal significance and political signaling." Taiwan's NSC chief @josephwutw named it "expansionism in disguise," Defense Minister Koo said it was "cognitive warfare." Both are quite correct. But the deeper target is Tokyo, Manila & Washington DC, since if Beijing can run a paramilitary sovereignty assertion directly against two US allies' lawful EEZ talks in waters far beyond even its own claim lines, the real message is that China's maritime claims are not just expansive and ambiguous, they are unbounded. 📊 Tracking by @StarboardIntel

An Indonesian fisherman hauled up a Chinese underwater drone near the #LombokStrait, one of the world’s key submarine corridors between the #Pacific & Indian Oceans, sparking intrigue over quiet undersea surveillance games beneath busy sea lanes.

🇨🇺🇺🇸⚔️ En las últimas semanas Cuba ha estado reabriendo túneles y acondicionando los que se usaban habitualmente en previsión de una operación de Estados Unidos. El grueso de la red se construyó en la década de 1980 y 1990 y estaba en parte abandonada desde los 2000, aunque siempre se ha preservado una red importante para centros de mando y sobre todo, para almacenar la enorme cantidad de material pesado que haría falta en caso de conflicto con Estados Unidos.

RT @BarakRavid: Over the last 24 hours: 1. IDF soldier shot an killed a 7 months old Palestinian baby in Hebron 2. IDF kills a senior Leba…

What a menace China is! Fishermen sitting on their tiny boats were receiving assistance from the Philippine Coast Guard, but the Chinese vessel was trying to heckle them by blasting water cannons at them, but fortunately, they were saved. @LembagaKERIS @leisbeth_recto

This is Taiwan Coast Guard broadcasting to China Coast Guard: “This is not your waters. You don’t belong here. Turn around & leave, NOW.” For several days now, China Coast Guard ships have been trying to block critical maritime choke points inside Taiwan's territorial waters.

China says ASEAN states are provocative but when we face harassment every single day just because we are operating in our waters, will we not retaliate?

‼️🇺🇦🇷🇺 L'avantage technologique des Ukrainiens qui peut faire basculer le front, serait-il ici ??? Si ce temps de transmission d'information est bien réduit de 90 %, ce serait un énorme avantage...😏😎⬇️ Les opérateurs de drones ukrainiens ont commencé à recevoir des images satellites directement sur leurs tablettes et smartphones en seulement 15 minutes après la prise de vue, selon le WSJ. Le nouveau système de la société américaine Vantor et de ses partenaires a réduit le temps entre la détection d'une cible et une frappe de 90 %. Les militaires peuvent comparer des images récentes et archivées, suivre les changements sur les objets, obtenir des modèles 3D de la zone et lancer des frappes contre des cibles ennemies plus rapidement. Source : t.me/ukrbavovna/27183

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This is why 🇨🇳#China is building out Antelope Reef at such a rapid pace, says Ray Powell, director of @SeaLightFound: "🇻🇳#Vietnam has been taking advantage of China's focus on the 🇵🇭#Philippines... The reclamation at Antelope Reef could be considered as China's answer, reminding Vietnam who the big dog on the porch is." bbc.com/news/articles/cy823n…

201 days & counting! Armed Chinese Coast Guard vessels were again spotted near the #SenkakuIslands, extending a record streak of incursions. Beijing’s relentless maritime pressure is testing regional stability & challenging the rules-based order.

Super enquête sur les maisons russes qui confirme l’analyse que nous publions depuis un certain temps: elles font partie intégrante du dispositif de renseignement russe, notamment en Afrique. Et elles hébergent des employés des SR russes en son sein 24tv.ua/ru/rossija-stroit-se…

Did Nikol Pashinyan save Armenia 🇦🇲 from disappearing? One week before historic parliamentary elections in which he leads the polls, the outgoing prime minister defends his record. Russian 🇷🇺 interference in the country has been increasing recently. 🧵THREAD🧵1/19 ⬇️

It is said thatThe CCP's strategic oil reserves have been exhausted, relying onThe falsified oil reserves have been exposed! For more than a year, due to the interruption of oil supplies from Venezuela and Iran to China, China's oil reserves have been depleted. However, on paper, China still has 1.2 billion tons of oil reserves. The strategic oil reserves, which appeared to be full of millions of tons, were actually found to be filled with sewage and sludge when the United States forced them to use them. When the Beijing authorities sent people to take stock of their assets, they discovered a huge, undeniable gap between the actual inventory and the reported figures. From May 25 to 27, Chinese Premier Li Qiang made an emergency trip to Zhoushan and Ningbo in Zhejiang Province, personally conducting a surprise inspection of the Zhoushan National Oil Reserve Base. The inspection revealed that most of the oil storage facilities were empty or filled with water to falsify data; in reality, the oil reserves had been depleted.

These are Chinese maritime militia boats that appear like civilian vessels, but in reality, they are very much part of China's military. This is the most clear example of China's grey zone warfare. @LembagaKERIS @CarpioJudge

China Coast Guard installed a wall of 1,000-ft floating barriers at Scarborough Shoal, blocking Filipino fishermen. A desperate attempt to choke the livelihood of local Filipino fishermen with unlawful Chinese actions.

It's a **month** since President Trump said that in **three days** the Iranian oil wells would be exploding. "When it explodes, you can never, regardless, you can never rebuild it the way it was," he said. Re-publishing my @Opinion column from Apr 29 ⤵️ bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…