China's war against its neighbors two!

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Xi Jinping’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good Year!

The irony of his leadership is that a seemingly transformational figure cannot embrace change.

2024 was disastrous for Chinese President Xi Jinping. For all of his rhetoric about “the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation,” his regime faced staggering setbacks. Military purges intended to root out corruption instead revealed systemic turmoil that continues to undermine readiness. Economic growth cratered as unemployment, bankruptcies, and capital outflows soared. Meanwhile, key partners in Moscow and Damascus stumbled or fell, undermining Beijing’s geostrategic ambitions. Together, these and other crises have revealed a China that looks increasingly fragile, not formidable.

If 2024 shattered illusions of China’s unyielding ascent, 2025 promises to lay bare the vulnerabilities that Xi can no longer conceal.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/02/xi-jinping-china-trump-tariffs-economic-crisis/

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ5fDppgRXo

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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/cFwF-uK42DQ" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/v/cFwF-uK42DQ</a>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFwF-uK42DQ

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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/tTiIzApX6zs" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/v/tTiIzApX6zs</a>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTiIzApX6zs

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Key Takeaways

• The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and Taiwan People's Party (TPP) pushed through new requirements on the Constitutional Court that will make it impossible for the court to carry out constitutional review until it fills some of its vacant seats. The KMT rejected all 7 of the ruling DPP’s judicial nominees to fill the vacancies, however, which makes it impossible for Lai to block legislation as long as the seats are unfilled.
  
• The KMT and TPP passed a budget allocation reform that would require Taiwan to reallocate more of its revenue to local governments. The bill would benefit the KMT by redirecting money to KMT constituencies and forcing President Lai to choose between cutting defense spending or cutting funding for other programs.
  
• Taiwan’s Presidential Office conducted its first tabletop wargame simulating PRC warfare against Taiwan. ROC President William Lai presided over the second meeting of the Whole-of-Society Defense Resilience Committee on the same day in a move consistent with broader efforts to bolster Taiwan’s civil defense resilience.
  
• The ROC Coast Guard Administration (CGA) intercepted a likely PRC ship suspected of damaging an undersea cable north of Taiwan on January 4. The CGA drove away a different PRC ship as it approached an area with undersea cables on January 6. Cutting undersea cables is a way for the PRC to isolate Taiwan or disrupt Taiwanese society.
  
• Instability in the highest echelons of the PLA’s political commissars likely signals Xi Jinping’s dissatisfaction with their effectiveness in instilling his ideals of political loyalty.
  
• Naturalized US citizen Chen Jinping pled guilty to charges of operating an illegal police station in New York at the behest of the PRC.
  
• Sources close to the Japanese government assess the PLAN and CCG likely conducted a joint maritime blockade drill in the Miyako Strait for the first time on December 22.
  
• Relations between the PRC and North Korea (DPRK) likely deteriorated in 2024 despite the year being dubbed the PRC-DPRK "Year of Friendship” in January 2024.

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/china-taiwan-weekly-update-january-9-2025

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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/ujZoM2bVQwE" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/v/ujZoM2bVQwE</a>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujZoM2bVQwE

All Chinese firms are part of the CCP!

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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/KihQUV_3hiM" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/v/KihQUV_3hiM</a>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KihQUV_3hiM

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As long as it is for National Security reasons, can you really complain?

Same reason Donnie is using to snatch Greenland and invade Mexico.

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Whose national security?

No one has threatened to invade either Greenland or Mexico!

You seem desperate to invent problems!

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 When Sen. Marco Rubio escalated his broadsides against the Chinese government over what he called a “grotesque campaign of genocide” against Uyghur Muslims, Beijing responded in 2020 with an extraordinary rebuke: banning the Florida Republican from the country.

Afterward, Rubio not only accelerated his criticism — pushing legislation that banned imports from the Xinjiang region, where China allegedly operated enslaved labor camps — but also attacked Elon Musk’s electric car company for opening a showroom in the region.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/rubio-nomination-complicated-by-attack-on-musk-s-tesla-and-china-s-ban/ar-BB1rgNJz?ocid=BingNewsVerp

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In addition to conducting aggressive military manoeuvres in the surrounding seas, China is also pursuing strategic investments and subtler forms of manipulation to push Philippine leaders (at all levels of government) into a more China-friendly stance. This is in keeping with its global strategy of building influence through clandestine business alliances, economic incentives, and investments targeting other countries’ elites. As the Philippines approaches critical elections in 2025 and 2028, China will try to befriend or otherwise gain sway over anyone who is open to its overtures.

Given these efforts, one cannot rule out a future Philippine government that adopts China’s own model of governance, state control and mass surveillance. Such a government might not only consult China’s authoritarian playbook to quash dissent; it could also leverage China’s resources and international political support to evade scrutiny and accountability. Institutions meant to serve the Philippine people would become tools for monitoring and restricting opponents and critics, and China will have secured itself a valuable foothold in Southeast Asia.

https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/china-takes-aim-at-philippine-democracy/

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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/sPJJZRpVTNY" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/v/sPJJZRpVTNY</a>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPJJZRpVTNY

Democrats oppose the construction of all dams and reservoirs in America!