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Marine Corps activates new base on Guam
Marine Aircraft Wing and Marine Aircraft Group exercises and training on Guam and within the Mariana Island Range Complex demonstrate the Aviation Combat Element capabilities of the Marine Air-Ground Task Force. (Lance Cpl. Antonio Rubio/Marine Corps) Marine Corps Base Camp Blaz*, Guam, became the Corps’ first new base in nearly 70 years. Camp Blaz will […]
Government Halts IPO
It seems that the Communist Chinese government under Xi JinPing is not happy that a financial institution like Ant has an IPO valuation higher than was expected. As a result, the government is moving to clamp down on Ant and reduce the IPO per share price. https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/china-s-move-to-halt-ant-ipo-could-slash-fintech-giant-s-value-by-140-bn-120111000029_1.html From the article: New regulations that could force […]
India and USA Make a Deal.
Does China really want a war with India and the USA? Read this and then you decide. https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2020/10/27/esper-pompeo-drive-us-anti-china-message-in-india-visit/ From the article: Esper and Pompeo sought to play on Indian suspicions about China to shore up a regional front against increasing Chinese assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific region. They also lauded joint cooperation in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. […]
Chinese Soldier Goes For a Walk, and….
And this just in from AP News: China and India are still quarreling over their “boundary” in the area that lies between India proper and Tibet. Most recently, a Chinese soldier was apprehended by Indian troops on that very border. Considering everything, they could probably have made a “citizen” out of him by just […]
Update On China
Eeewww! This is another look at China, and how it may not be the threat we sometimes perceive. https://www.defensenews.com/opinion/commentary/2020/09/17/if-china-loses-a-future-war-entropy-could-be-imminent/?utm_source=clavis Let me just drop some real history on you: real innovation in China came to an end with the end of the K’ang Tsi dynasty. At that time, porcelain produced during the K’ang Tsi reign was […]
Mitigating the China Threat
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know China has been kicking up her heels of late. From a nearly five-month-long border standoff with India, to being engaged in hotly contested territorial disputes in the South and East China Seas, its substantial progress in militarizing its man-made islands in the region, human rights, and […]
Taiwan Is Also On Mainland China’s List
Taiwan is not lagging behind Palau in bumping up its military aircraft. The Island of Taiwan has been targeted by the Chinese government in Beijing as a possession of China, and is not recognized by China as an independent nation in itself and China wants what it wants, period. The Taiwanese, of course, do […]
First, It’s Palau….
As you know, the Chinese government has decided it owns the South China Sea when it doesn’t and has been on a spree building artificial islands with bases for a few years now. And Palau, being one of China’s southern neighbors, doesn’t like the way the Chinese are looking at its land masses. Therefore, Palau […]
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