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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TobagoJack who wrote (190523)	8/2/2022 8:50:46 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217679

Re <<Dark Side of China>> training makes perfect, am supposing, and training also makes training unnecessary, even better Message 33946994 am guessing there shall be a lot of trainings going forward bloomberg.com China Plans Four Days of Military Drills in Areas Encircling Taiwan Beijing declares provocative show of force after Pelosi lands Taiwan’s ruling party calls on China to be ‘responsible power’ Sarah Zheng 3 August 2022, 01:12 GMT+8 China will conduct large-scale military drills and missile tests around Taiwan in a defiant show of force after House speaker Nancy Pelosi became the highest-ranking US politician to land on the island in a quarter century.] Beijing announced six exclusion zones encircling Taiwan to facilitate live-fire military drills from Thursday to Sunday, with some of the areas crossing into the island’s territorial waters. The size and scope of the areas could set the stage for the Chinese military’s most provocative actions near Taiwan in decades. An aircraft carrying US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrives in Taipei, Aug. 2. Photographer: Lam Yik Fei/Bloomberg Separately, the People’s Liberation Army said exercises could start as soon as Tuesday, leaving open the possibility of military activities around Taiwan while Pelosi was visiting. The operations include “long-range live firing in the Taiwan Strait” and “regular-guided fire testing in the eastern waters” off Taiwan from Tuesday evening, the PLA said. “This action is targeted at the US’s shocking recent major escalation on the Taiwan issue, and serves as a serious warning to Taiwanese independence forces or those seeking independence,” Shi Yi, a spokesperson for the Eastern Theater Command, said in a statement. A map released by the Xinhua news agency in China details areas that will be used for military drills encircling Taiwan from Aug. 4-7. Source: Xinhua. During the military drills, “relevant ships and aircraft should not enter the above sea areas and airspaces during this period,” the official Xinhua News Agency said in a report late Tuesday, which gave coordinates for the exercises. The exercises highlight the risk that Taiwan tensions could exacerbate existing supply chain woes. The Taiwan Strait is the primary route for ships passing from China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan to points west. Almost half of the global container fleet and 88% of the world’s largest ships by tonnage passed through the waterway this year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Taiwan’s defense ministry said 21 Chinese military aircraft entered its air-defense identification zone Tuesday, compared to four the day before. The PLA has stepped up its flights near Taiwan in recent months, and ramps ups the show of force around key events, including visits by US poltiicians. Pelosi became the first US House speaker to visit the island in 25 years when her military aircraft arrived at Songshan Airport shortly before 11 p.m. local time. China considers Taiwan part of its territory and protests diplomatic visits to the democratic island. The planned drills would be the most serious show of force by China around Taiwan since at least 1995, when Beijing test-fired missiles into the sea near the island. That move was part of China’s protests against President Bill Clinton’s decision to let Taiwan’s first democratically elected president, Lee Teng-hui, visit the US. Back then, China also declared exclusion zones around target areas during the tests, disrupting shipping and air traffic. Comparing China’s 1995/1996 live fire exercises during the Third Taiwan Strait Crisis (left) and with those just announced for August 2022 (right). Sources: https://t.co/OnzkB6TNPl and https://t.co/p1h6p1dpVz pic.twitter.com/gH8NsZEhq4 — M. Taylor Fravel (@fravel) August 2, 2022 Pelosi plans to hold a joint press briefing with President Tsai Ing-wen at about 10:50 a.m. Wednesday, the Taiwan leader’s office said in a statement. She is expected to depart the island later that day to continue her Asia tour visiting US allies South Korea and Japan. Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party called on China to exercise restraint and stop acts of military and political intimidation. China should “demonstrate the demeanor of a responsible power,” DPP spokeswoman Hsieh Pei-fen said in a statement late Tuesday. “No threatening remarks or provocative actions can reduce even slightly the determination of Taiwan and its international friends to defend democracy and freedom,” she added. (Updates with more details from military statement in third paragraph.)

To: TobagoJack who wrote (190523)	8/2/2022 11:04:43 PM
From: Maurice Winn	3 Recommendations Recommended By gg cox maceng2 Maple MAGA Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217679

Slinking? Hardly! With anyone able to track Pelosi aircraft via FlightRadar, that's not "slinking". Slinking is no tracking, no transponders, stealth mode. Just as I was dismayed to find my Emirates A380 intended flying over Ukraine a couple of weeks before the Malaysian airliner was shot down going the same route in the other direction, it's wise, not slinking, to avoid even unintended blunders that might launch a rocket that destroys an airliner. And being a too-tempting target is unwise too as some hill-billy hot-head might decide to do what the Beijing bosses wouldn't do, as presumably happened with the Malaysian airliner. The Vincennes destroyed an Iranian airliner - with the hysterical crew of the Vincennes shrieking like chimps during what they misconstrued as an attack by the airliner taking off. American military people seem prone to maniacal chimp shrieks, cheers, ooga booga sounds generally instead of sensible professionalism and rational action. The Russians shot down an "innocent" [giggle] South Korean 747 flight KE007 over Sakhalin Island after it traversed the Kamchatka peninsula. My brother, a 747 captain of umpteen hours flight time in 747s and decades before that in other airliners was emphatic that it was absolutely not a matter of "Oh, we must have got our flight path a bit bung." He showed me the maps and explained the whole process. The Americans shot down another airliner over New York [oops a daisy] = but claimed that to not have been the case. Some cock and bull story made up about how it came to crash. Better to avoid such actions and land safely. No slinking required. Watched by everyone. I like her having shown the flag and emphasized to Made in China megalomania that people who play with fire will be badly burned. Power grows out of degrees of freedom and degrees of co-operative endeavour in cognitive achievement to create peace, light, harmony, happiness, health, prosperity, longevity, fun and love. Barbarian chimpoid barrel power people are so last-century. The outdated constitutional pretence that Taiwan is the actual ruler of China should be unilaterally ditched. Similarly, the Made in China constitution should recognize Taiwan as a Special Zone of Association, with freedom for Taiwanese to migrate to China, travel in China, invest in China, sell to China, buy from China, and even, if 75% of Taiwanese so vote, to be accepted as a province of China as a special economic zone. China could establish Taiwan as an autonomous zone which could become the HQ of a reconstituted United Nations which has long passed its use-by date. It's absurd that India [over a billion people] has only the same vote as Fiji with 1 million, while jolly olde Englande has not just a vote but a veto, with only 60 million. Mqurice