Somalia - China Competing with Israel

Somaliland is an autonomous region in northern Somalia that has sought independence since the 1990's. Declaring its own secession from Somalia, yet without being recognized by international organisations like the United Nations.

Recently, Israel recognized Somaliland as an independent and sovereign country and established diplomatic relations on December 26, 2025. However, this move was widely condemned by the international community (such as China, the Arab League, the African Union, and the United Kingdom), reiterating its support for Somalia's sovereignty and territorial integrity, and emphasizing that any status change requires dialogue. Therefore, international mainstream views still regard Somaliland as part of Somalia, not as an independent and sovereign country.

Israel might have its reasons for that, possibly hoping to increase its military presence in a region which is strategically important to ensure Israeli ship traffic in the southern Red Sea, namely in the Strait of Hormuz where Israel's enemy Yemen is quite near.

On its 2nd page for December 30, 2025, China's official paper "People's Daily", overseas edition, expressed concern and opposition to Israel's step to establish diplomatic relations with Somaliland, a step that simultaneously raised the suspicion of other regional players.

This comes shortly before China's foreign envoyee Wang Yi is starting his traditional visit to African states at the beginning of the year, this time first visiting Somalia's capital Mogadishu. China's interest for Africa makes part of a global initiative to extend its economic and political ties.

Declaration of China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian
at the ministry's regular press conference on Dec. 29, 2025:
外交部发言人—中方坚决反对以色列承认索马里兰
China firmly opposes Israel's recognition of Somaliland.

Quotation:
Dr. Amani al-Taweel, the Director of the African Program at Al-Ahram Center for Studies, believes that the step reflects an Israeli insistence on pursuing policies that ignore the African and regional contexts, even if it leads to a clash with countries with direct interests in the region.

She considered that this was taking place under American cover. She adds that the most dangerous thing is a transformation of the 'Normalization with Israel' into a tool that grants political legitimacy to separatist entities, which may encourage similar movements at the Horn of Africa and Sudan.

وترى مديرة البرنامج الأفريقي بمركز الأهرام للدراسات، الدكتورة أماني الطويل، أن الخطوة تعكس إصرارا إسرائيليا على انتهاج سياسات تتجاهل السياقين الأفريقي والإقليمي، حتى لو أدت إلى صدام مع دول ذات مصالح مباشرة في المنطقة

واعتبرت أن ذلك يجري في ظل غطاء أميركي. وتضيف أن الأخطر هو تحوّل التطبيع مع إسرائيل إلى أداة تمنح شرعية سياسية لكيانات انفصالية، بما قد يشجع حركات مماثلة في القرن الأفريقي والسودان

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Further News of the Day:

While searching the Arabic networks for additional material on Israel's approach of Somaliland, I stumbled over the Latest Trump Cheese. It is about his announcement to fight Mexican drug gangs on the ground. Same goes with Colombia. And Cuba isn't even worth dealing with. All Trump could do to Cuba, so he said, is to seize or destroy it. If my readers argue the above quoted paper stems from Yemen, I can assure you that the same information is just being disseminated by serious Western media like Deutsche Welle DW.
Trump is simply going on a rampage, and he seemingly doesn't need any drugs for that.

US Navy Seized Russian Flagged TankerSuspected of Carrying Venezuelan Oil

Footage posted by US Southern Command and Homeland Security secretary, Kristi Noem, appears to show the US military intercepting a Venezuela-linked tanker in the Caribbean Sea on Wednesday, January 7. It was released on the same day US forces also intercepted and seized the Russian-flagged Marinera in the north Atlantic.

The Marinera, also known as M/V Bella 1 should have been accompanied for a certain time by other Russian ships and observed by a Russian submarine in the North-Eastern Atlantik. Moscow protested the seizure.

Tonight: Heavily armed U.S. Hellbirds storm Britain as a surge of American military power descends on RAF bases in Suffolk & Gloucestershire. Eleven C-17 Globemaster troop carriers and two lethal AC-130J Ghostrider gunships have touched down in what eyewitnesses and flight trackers confirm as one of the heaviest U.S. air deployments in Europe in years. The world watches tensely as this unprecedented projection of force raises urgent questions: Will allies be drawn into a broader confrontation as the Denmark-Greenland issue intensifies? Geopolitics is shifting, and the consequences are only beginning to ripple across the globe.

BREAKING Trump ordered Kidnapping ofVenezuela's President Nicolas Maduro

Continuously Updated (Last: Jan. 07)

=> 委内瑞拉绑架时间线 <= A Timeline of the Venezuelan kidnapping incident [Chinese]

Maduro arrives at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn on Jan. 4, 05:00 CET

International media are reporting the kidnapping of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro and his wife in the frame of a nightly attack on Venezuela's capital Caracas. US Delta forces should have carried out the operation on behalf of US president Donald Trump who intends to put him to trial "for his crimes" before a NY court. At the moment, Maduro and his wife are being held aboard US warship "Iwo Jima" but nobody knows for sure. Even Maduro's vice-president didn't know their whereabouts during the first hours.

This comes even before a probably planned attack on Iran discussed earlier today on my last blogspot.

And who will be next ? Maybe the Canadian Prime Minister to enforce a US-Canadian unification, or the Queen of Denmark because of raw materials and a cold-resistant Inuit workforce expected on Greenland ?



Video: Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene from Georgia says Maduro’s capture is not ‘America First’. => Full interview

Former CIA director Brennan: This U.S. invasion of Venezuela is all about oil, wealth and regime change. And this is not an isolated voice from the US center of power ...


Video: Speech of Venezuela's Vice-President Rodriguez opposing Trump's stances, while Trump declares María Corina Machado, prominent leader of the Venezuelan opposition and laureate of the Nobel Prize, as not being legitimate to follow Maduro in office.
[France 24 in English, January 3].

On January 4, media reported that VP Rodriguez was officially named successor to Nicolas Maduro as a President of Venezuela. The ruling political party, presenting "La Revolución Bolivariana", seems to be still in power.


Only hours after the inauguration of Rodriguez as the new president of Venezuela, regional media reported "shots, anti-aircraft fire and sighting of drones among confusion in the neighbourhod of Miraflores Palace (Presidential Palace)". [A24 com, Argentinian TV station on Jan. 6]

US Embassy and Consulates in Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia issued warning of restricted access to their offices due to expected anti-US manifestations during the weekend.
[Demócrata, Spanish paper on January 3]

Protesters unite during a demonstration in Paris, France, directed
against US incursion into Venezuela. [Huffington Post on Jan. 3]

It should be noted that anti-Maduro protesters from Venezuela took to the streets, as well, in order to celebrate the Maduro kidnapping, but that depends much on the place of their exile in neighbouring countries. In Bogotá, Colombia, they succeeded in blocking the local traffic and, thus, triggered a regional traffic warning from the authorities. Some time later, that manifestation allegedly should have been dissolved by its participants. In Buenos Aires, Argentine, Venezuelan refugees are celebrating the Maduro kidnapping. Yet, there are Argentinian protesters, as well, opposing the US incursion and further Trump plans "to run Venezuela". No wonder, this is the country of "chainsaw president" Milei.

On the contrary, Mexico came about with a clear stance of Mexico's President Sheinbaum against the US kidnapping. After a Trump statement on Mexico that "something will have to be done about Mexico", the Mexican Senate cancelled a meeting allowing US military to enter the country. [Mexico Solidarity Media on Jan. 3]

China, Russia, Iran, Brazil and Cuba are further countries opposed to US action against Venezuela. [Anadolou, Turkish News Agency, on Jan. 3]

This is a developing Trump Story !

Iranian Protests - US Pretext for Military StrikesAre Trump & Netanyahu Planning Joint Action ?

Beginning on 28 December 2025, mass demonstrations erupted across multiple cities in Iran amid a deepening economic crisis and widespread dissatisfaction with the government. While initially sparked by frustration over skyrocketing inflation, rising food prices, and the severe depreciation of the Iranian Rial, the protests quickly evolved into a broader movement demanding an end to the Islamic Republic's rule.

Beginning with shopkeepers and bazaar merchants in Tehran, the demonstrations soon spread to universities, drawing in large numbers of students from across the country.

US president Trump immediately reacted on his own platform Truth Social and announced "military help for the protesters" to achieve their goals. As severe economic problems in Iran can be related not only to administrative problems of the regime, but for an essential part, as well, to the sanctions imposed on the country in the frame of an alleged development of nuclear weapons, Trump's interference could therefore be seen as a pretext to continue bombing further nuclear facilities.

[Voice of America VOAin Chinese, on January 3, 2026]

Trump Warns of Possible Airstrikes Against Iran - Russia Urges Restraint

The Kremlin on Tuesday (December 30) called on all parties to avoid escalating tensions over Iran, after US President Trump stated that Washington would support another large-scale airstrike against Iran.

Reuters reported that the US military joined Israel in a 12-day military operation against Tehran in June, attacking three major Iranian nuclear facilities. Trump stated at the time that the operation had "destroyed" Iranian nuclear facilities, but later US assessments found that the attack primarily damaged one of the facilities, named Fordow.

Trump held a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Monday, December 29. He stated that Tehran might be trying to restart its weapons program after the US airstrikes in June. Iran denies possessing a nuclear weapons program.

Trump said, "I've seen reports that they're expanding weapons facilities, etc., and if that's the case, they're probably using somewhere else, not the facilities we destroyed."

Pezeshkian: Iran Will Respond Strongly to Any Attack.
The Associated Press (AP) reported that Iranian President Pezeshkian said on Tuesday that Iran would respond strongly to any attack. This appears to be a response to Trump's warnings about Iran resuming its nuclear program.

Pezeshkian wrote on the social media platform X, "The Islamic Republic of Iran's response to any brutal aggression will be severe and deterrent." However, he did not elaborate further.

Russia, however, called for de-escalation. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the media, "We believe it is necessary to avoid any actions that could escalate regional tensions, and first and foremost, dialogue with Iran is essential."

He stated that Russia will continue to deepen its close relationship with Iran.

[Asia TV News on December 31, 2025]

Taiwan - China Ready for War in 2027

Update on 1st January 2026 added further down:
Support of One-China stance by 'Friendly Nations'

A draft Pentagon report reviewed by Reuters last week argued that China expects to have the ability to launch a war and win against Taiwan by the end of 2027 at the latest, a point that coincides with the centenary of the founding of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. 2027 has been seen as the point at which an invasion may occur.

Some analysts said that this time is not an established goal, and it should perhaps be understood as a starting point, that is, military operations will be feasible from 2027, and the use of force is Beijing's last choice. In order to avoid Taiwan's resistance, as well as direct confrontation with the United States, Beijing certainly hopes to allow Taiwan to make concessions and compromises in advance as much as possible without using force, such as imposing a blockade and opening negotiations with Taiwan. A Taiwanese security official pointed out: “China is trying to gradually advance control of the entire archipelago through various forms of ‘extreme pressure’ means.” He added that Beijing intends to reshape the international order in accordance with its own goals.

[RFI in Chinese, December 30, 2025]

China's new long-range ICBM named "DF-61" means "60 nukes plus one hydrogen bomb", says China's strategist Viktor Gao referring to the military parade on TianAnMen-Square in Beijing on September 3, 2025.

Viktor Gao is known as President of the China Energy Security Institute. He is a chair professor at Soochow University. Lately, he became equally known as Vice President of the Center for China and Globalization when he attended the Doha Forum 2025. Here comes his recent interview with an Arabic TV station:






The above video explains Beijing’s position, global diplomatic response, and why dozens of countries reaffirmed the one-China principle. It breaks down China’s warnings on sovereignty, stability in the Taiwan Strait, and concerns over external interference.

Countries in support of the one-China stance have their individual reasons for that: Some belong to international alliances like the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (including Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan), others have their special experience with US politics. Such countries comprise Russia, Iran, Cuba, Serbia, Pakistan, Laos and Samoa, Zimbabwe and the African Union.

[Cross World News January 1st, 2026]

Comment from "blueprinteditor" for the Beginning of a New Global Era in 2026 Today's world is led, either by morally degraded guys like Trump, Netanyahu and their Epstein “friends in spirit“, each of them rotten in an individual way, or by sober strategists like Putin or Xi JinPing, coming together with lots of national leaders who want to ameliorate the fate of their people whatever it costs. But “whatever it costs“ implies in most cases the need to “do like the successful are doing“, and which “naturally“ excludes the presence of some basic morality in daily politics. What we observe is the presence of intelligent actors in a “pro-China alliance of the unwilling“, while the “pro-Trump alliance of the dumb“ is assembling all those mediocre guys and freaks like Robert Kennedy jun or Elon Musk, some of them united in their hate of “stinking academics“, meanwhile seen as the people's good-for-nothings. By the way, the expression “stinking academics“ originally refers to a classification used during China's Cultural Revolution when many Chinese lived on the brink of starvation. An elevated formation, once seen as the entrance into a better and easier personal life experience in the West, has now been replaced by the ideology of “shooting your teacher instead of learning from him“. This, at least, is a trend of thought that has silently swapped from the USA into Western Europe during the last decades and the fatal results of which can already be observed in the country I live in.

Admonition to Self-Examination on the Threshold of a New Year

UPDATE included on December 29 / 30

Here is some morality for the everyday US citizen who would like to look deeper into the Epstein files, yet doesn't know how to read them right. Be careful not to break the rules, like Epstein did in a different way, by "hacking" the redacted files rather than copying them into a better looking text sheet. Furthermore avoid to get your eyes overworked by reading too much. Isn't X-Mas a rare opportunity to search your own heart and abstain from everything your government wants to protect you from ?



[Editor's Comment: I've tried this out and it works under certain conditions, if the DOJ operator either doesn't really understand the proper procedure or is facing too many data and, therefore, working in a hurry. - Earnestly, what do you expect from an overworked employee during the holiday season, who had just survived the frightening "efficiency campaign", staged by Elon Musk, and the denial of some monthly paychecks due to a self-inflicted government blockade.]

=> Properly sealed PDF-file from the US Department of Justice
(DOJ) on a case of human trafficking as reported by an NGO <=

Unredacted segments from NGO report (" Hope for Justice "),
as reported by US based medium The Tennessean (Nashville):

The report included in the release of the Epstein files is dated August 1, 2019, two pages and heavily redacted. The unredacted segments of the report do not name Epstein, nor does it say if the victim who made the report lives in Nashville or had any connection to the city beyond calling the nonprofit office.

An investigator with the nonprofit took a report from a victim who said she'd been sex trafficked twice — when she was about 5 and again at 17, the document says.

The victim "recalled being forced to live under the house in a crawl space and at times were made to live there as well," the report says. When he was around 5 years old she was taken to Florida and reported there were several children there with her.

When she was 17, she was taken to the U.S. Virgin Islands where "she was 'sold' again," the report says. Epstein's private island was in the Virgin Islands.

The victim told investigators she was taken to an area that looked like a horse stall, where she and other young girls were forced to engage in sexual activity.

"She recalled one man in his 30's, with brown hair and wheel chair bound, who gave instructions to the other men as to what they should do to the girls," the report says.

The victim said she couldn't break free until she was 30, and she called Hope for Justice to help other women who were victimized.

The report ended noting the "allegations involving sexual exploitation and sex trafficking should be forwarded to the FBI's New York Field Office" to be included in an investigation file on or about a redacted name.



Epstein's "Lolita Express"

=> US Department of Justice: Ghislaine Maxwell, main
accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein, sentenced to 20 years <=

Epstein probably exposed or corrupted other celebrities
as well, in order to conceal his secret activities.

Author of the above article is a Chinese "creator of military content".

Biographical Data:

- Jeffrey Edward Epstein (*1953 in Brooklyn NY - †2019 Metropolitan Correctional Center NY).
Epstein was born into a Jewish middle-class family. He began his professional career as a teacher at Dalton School. After his dismissal from that school in 1976, he entered the banking and finance sector before starting his own firm. He became a successful American financier & convicted child sex offender. In prison, he committed suicide.

- Ghislaine Maxwell (*1961 near Paris, France).
Maxwell was born into a Jewish family. Her mother engaged in 'holocaust research'. After her father moved to Britain, his daughter was raised near Oxford. She later began her studies at Oxford University. In 1991 she moved to New York City where she met with Jeffrey Epstein and became his lover for some years, simultaneously working as some kind of a 'housekeeper' for him. In 2021, Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison for covering up Epstein's sexual traficking and related crimes.

Reopening the X-Mas Files - China, Japan & Taiwan

News update & comment added on December 24, 2025

And here is my final PDF-report (2 MB) on additional Chinese
=> Historic Materials covering the Chinese-Japanese Conflict <=

Latest: Japanese diplomacy at the president's office in Taiwan [December 24]
" China may be waiting for the right moment to hit back "

China Propaganda - Coming from the Heart

On Commemoration Day of the Nanjing Massacre, committed by Japanese invasion troops on December 13, 1937 and leaving a death toll of 300.000 civilians, some Chinese propaganda account on X came about with the following post:

A comprising evaluation of the Sino-Japanese Conflict was quoted from the same propaganda platform related to some military, probably female, Northeastern Training (Unit) 东北进修, not directly connected to China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs nor the Ministry of State Security, the logo of which this X-account has chosen for its own presentation. Despite an undeniable dedication to the cause of China, this site is offering accurate historic background information on the conflict, allegedly based on personal/familiar background.

Historic Timeline of the Sino Japanese Conflict

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Japan has started every war in which they were the aggressor with a sneak attack.

🔸1894, First Sino Japanese war; started when Japanese cruisers attacked Chinese ships leaving the Asan Bay.

🔸1904 Russo-Japanese war; started when Japanese ships attacked the Russian Far East Fleet in Port Arthur.

This was Japan's coming out war, against a Western Great Power. So it was important for the Japanese to act with decorum.

They sent a formal declaration of war to Russia 3 hours AFTER the attack. Otherwise, in their mind, the world would see them as the deceitful thieves.

🔸1931 full invasion of Chinese region of Manchuria; started with the false flag incident, the Mukden Incident, where the Japanese planted a bomb to destroy the railway they operated, and blamed it on the Chinese. Using this as an excuse to invade the entire region.

🔸1937, 2nd Sino Japanese war, the full scale invasion of China. The Japanese set up another false flag incident; The Marco Polo Bridge Incident where Japanese troops used the excuse of finding a lost solider to attack Chinese troops outside of Beijing.

🔸1941, the Pacific War as part of WW2. Japan attacked the US at Pearl Harbor WHILE their negotiators were in the US for "peace talks".

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In addition, I would like to present two further posts that are dealing with the current situation of mistrust between China and Japan, after Japanese PM Takaichi's comment on Taiwan and in the frame of Sino-Russian joint ecercises in the vicinity of Japan.
[Editor: As to the enmity between Chinese and Japanese people, I've kept some memories from earlier press reports in my country, dealing with some unknown Japanese that had damaged a Chinese memorial site at Hiroshima, Japan, dedicated to Chinese victims of the atomic bomb and who had been engaged in forced labor. That incident, already years ago, had been officially downplayed at the time.]

And, here again, is my PDF-report on additional Chinese
=> Materials covering the Chinese-Japanese Conflict <=

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Military Build-up in the Far East

Update December 12: China and US independently downplayed Sino-Japanese Tensions, coming at a time when US Trump faces the Thailand-Cambodia Conflict flaring up again and resulting in half a million refugees, a conflict he had earlier declared "having already ended" under his guidance.

What began as a joint exercise of Chinese and Russian forces
has turned into a dangerous confrontation of US-backed Japan:

Tokyo said that US fighter jets with nuclear strike capabilities flew over the Sea of Japan together with Japanese fighter jets. Previously, China and Russia held joint exercises in the sea and air near Japan and South Korea.

Japan's Ministry of Defense issued a statement on Thursday (December 11) saying that Japan and the United States reiterated their firm defense against any unilateral attempt to use violence to change the status quo and confirmed the preparations between the Self-Defense Forces and the US military.

Two US military B-52 fighter jets flew together with three Japanese F-35 stealth fighters and three F-15 fighters.

On Tuesday, Chinese and Russian warplanes flew jointly in the East China Sea, as well as in the western Pacific. And "Japan accuses Chinese fighter jets of attacking Japanese fighter jets in last weekend's fire control radar locking." China denied it. Washington called the incident "unconstructive to regional peace and stability" and reiterated its unwavering alliance with Japan.

[DW Chinese on December 11, 2025]

The flight of two U.S. B-52 strategic bombers with three Japanese F-35 stealth fighters and three F-15 air-superiority jets was the first time the U.S. had asserted its military presence since China began military exercises in the region last week amid heightened tensions between Tokyo and Beijing.

However, a U.S. official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, played down the bomber flights, saying they were pre-planned well before the Chinese-Russian drills and that U.S. and Japanese military aircraft carried out similar joint sorties last month, also involving U.S. B-1B bombers.

At the White House, spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said U.S. President Donald Trump can maintain both a "good working relationship" with China and a "very strong alliance" with Japan, even as tensions have risen between those two countries.

[Reuters on December 12, 2025]

China's aircraft carrier Liaoning entered US–Japan
airspace, cutting off Japan's reinforcement line !

China and Russia reportedly joined forces, with
15 fighter jets illegally flying over Japan's border

Russia-China Patrol Ratttles Japan

Russia has deployed TU-95 nuclear-capable bombers over the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea, with Japan responding by scrambling fighter jets to monitor the situation. The Russian bombers, escorted by Su-35 and Su-30SM fighters, flew within Japan’s Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) but did not enter sovereign airspace.

China Netizens - The Yellow Wave

One time after the millenium year of 2000, Chinese language websites first outnumbered English language sites.

In its 29th Statistics Report on the State of China's Internet Development, China's Internet Information Center (CNNIC) had published that by the end of December 2011, the number of Chinese households using the web would have increased to 250 Million. The web then became the most important medium of communication for its users when fetching news. And in January 2012, Chinese media reported that China's internet population had risen to 500 Million "netizens".

But it is the 56th Statistics Report from CNNIC, published in July 2025, which comes about with an even more interesting evaluation:

中国互联网络信息中心（CNNIC）2025年7月：截至2025年6月，中国大陆网民规模达11.23亿人，互联网普及率为79.7%。中国大陆手机网民规模达11.16亿，网民中使用手机上网的比例为 99.4%。

As of June 2025, the number of Internet users in mainland China will reach 1.123 billion, with an Internet penetration rate of 79.7%. The number of mobile Internet users in mainland China will reach 1.116 billion, with 99.4% of Internet users accessing the Internet via mobile devices.

In his book "The Digital Silk Road", first published in 2021, Jonathan Hillman, a top-ranking specialist on international strategic studies, wrote that China is rewiring the world, through vast infrastructure projects which already extend from the ocean floor to outer space, from Africa's megacities to rural America. In doing so, the global order is being rewritten.

China's Archipelago - Danger of War

PDF-Update Dec.10: Background Material (日本对中国战争和琉球问题)

What happened:
A Japanese ship broke into the Diaoyu Islands
to run wild & Chinese Coast Guard took action.

Here is a Chinese comment posted on December 5 by a Jiangxi Military Field Creator :

The frequency of Japan “ acting as a demon ” is simply refreshing! Before the farce over the Taiwan Strait had come to an end, Japan hurriedly extended its black hand to the Diaoyu Islands.

On December 2, as soon as the report from China Coast Guard came out, netizens immediately boiled: The Japanese fishing boat Ruibao Maru dared to illegally break into the territorial waters of our Diaoyu Islands. The Chinese Coast Guard ship took a hard-core action on the spot to control, warn, and drive away a set of processes. It was simply neat and when the scene was uploaded to the Internet, the screen was full of applause for the Coast Guard action.

It may be asked, why does Japan dare to be so bold? On one hand, there is support of the United States behind it, trying to use the tiger skin of the U.S.-Japan alliance as a banner, and imagining that with the support of external forces, they can gain benefits on the issue of China-related territory; on the other hand, some forces in Japan have always held the illusion of the remnants of militarism, and they will never die against China's territory, testing China's bottom line through various small actions in an attempt to change the status quo of sovereignty over the Diaoyu Islands.

But they are clearly miscalculating that China is no longer the country that was slaughtered a hundred years ago, and that China today has enough strength and determination to defend every inch of territorial sovereignty.

=> The Sino-Japanese War and the Ryukyu Subject <=

Extended Update Dec. 17
Download PDF-file 1 MB

Diplomatic Crisis IntensifiesChina Blocks Cultural Exchange with Japan

China has canceled a large number of Sino-Japanese cultural exchange activities because of protests against Japanese PM Sanae's remarks in Takashi. This could be seen as another model of “U-shaped lock ” that hit the Chinese head, and the “empty chair” concert of Japanese singer Ayumi Hamasaki will go down in history for protesting the meaning of totalitarianism.

[DW Chinese on November 3]

X-account of Yaitani Akihiro,
Executive Director of Indo-
Pacific Strategy Institute, a
senior Japanese media figure.

今天晚上在中國上海，發生了一件荒唐的突發事件。日本遊戲公司萬代南夢宮在上海舉辦的「遊戲嘉年華2025」的活動中，當日本歌手大槻真希正在台上演唱《海賊王》片尾曲「memories」時，舞台上的螢幕與照明突然全部熄滅，被中國官員拉下了電閘。演出被迫中止。

A ridiculous incident occurred in Shanghai, China, tonight. During the "Game Carnival 2025" event held by Japanese game company Bandai Namco in Shanghai, the stage's lights and screens suddenly went out while Japanese singer Otsuki Makiko was performing the "memories" ending theme from One Piece, and Chinese officials pulled the plug. The performance was forced to stop. .....

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Okinawa, located at Japan's southernmost tip, has a history that stretches back thousands of years, from prehistoric times to the present day. In the 14th century, the Ryukyu Kingdom was founded (1429–1879), thriving through trade with China, Korea, and Southeast Asia due to its strategic location. The kingdom flourished for around 450 years before being annexed by Japan during the Meiji era (1868–1912), marking the beginning of Okinawa’s integration into Japan as a prefecture. Following World War II, Okinawa was under U.S. administration before being returned to Japan in 1972. The Okinawa subject remains an unsolved problem, as the status of the Ryukyu people after World War II has not been finally determined up to now.

The following map of Chinese origin can serve as an example, marking the problem China and surrounding states are having with the interpretation of national sovereignty related to the Eastern and South China Sea.

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" Allah's Fury We Deliver " A Deadly Thanksgiving

International Business Times (UK) published on Nov. 29:
Murdered National Guard Soldier Was 'Googled in Israel'
Days Before DC Shooting, Shocking Data Reveals (LINK)

Here is all we know about the 29-year-old Afghan suspect of the Washington DC shooting on November 26 that killed National Guard service woman Sarah Beckstrom and severely wounded her male colleague Andrew Wolfe. Information is quoted from some Chinese language article, published on Nov. 28, as Chinese news are often more comprising when it comes to what is regarding foreign nations, rather than what is happening in People's China.

When the US left Afghanistan in 2021, [29-year-old shooting suspect] Lakanwal entered the United States through a resettlement program and was officially granted refugee status this year.

In a statement, CIA director John Ratcliffe said that Lakanwal had worked for the US government in Kandahar, Afghanistan, as some "member of the military 发军成员", but didn't specify what his specific role was.

Shortly after US withdrawal from Afghanistan, Lakanwal's relationship with the CIA ended.

According to Associated Press, Lakanwal was a member of the Afghan special forces unit codenamed "Unit Zero 零部队" which received CIA training in Kandahar to prepare for night raids and other missions.

After US withdrawal, this unit was integrated into the Afghan intelligence agency.


The following system critical, yet highly frequented US based X account alleges that lots of unknown internet users searched Google for information about the, up to then, widely unknown Afghan suspect, even hours before the shooting really took place.

Same goes with his female target Sarah Beckstrom that did not survive the attack. She had been allegedly googled as well, hours before the incident took place by more than 100 internet users in the Israeli area of Tel Aviv. That information came from an Arabic language X account, usually providing 'consistent and convincing material' from an entirely different position.

It looks like some people were waiting for something going to happen soon.

الاعلى تداولاً في الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية
سارة بيكستروم، عضو الحرس الوطني التي تم اطلاق النار عليها في واشنطن العاصمة من قبل عميل أفغاني كان تابع لوكالة المخابرات المركزية CIA تم البحث عن اسمها على جوجل في إسرائيل منذ أيام قبل إطلاق النار، ومطالبات بالتحقيق في الأمر (حيث ان اسمها ووظيفتها يعتبروا غير معروفين لاي شخص في دول اخرى نظراً لحساسية وظيفتها)
الجدير بالذكر ان دونالد ترامب بدأ في اتخاذ اجراءات صارمة ضد المهاجرين في أمريكا حيث بدأوا في أمريكا بإعادة تقييم جميع بطاقات الإقامة (جرين كارد) التي تم اصدارها لأشخاص من 19 دولة اعتبروها مثيرة للقلق

Most traded in the United States of America:
Sarah Beckstrom, a National Guard member who was shot in Washington DC by some CIA-affiliated Afghan agent.
Her name has been Googled in Israel for days before the shooting, and there have been calls for an investigation (since her name and job are unknown to anyone in other countries due to the sensitivity of her job).
It is worth noting that Donald Trump has begun to take strict measures against immigrants in America, such starting a re-evaluation of all residence permits (green cards) issued to people from 19 countries considered as "worrisome".

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