[Doomberg] As the post-Covid global energy crisis began to unfold, California Governor Gavin Newsom faced a serious dilemma. With a degrading electricity grid, the prospect of ongoing rolling blackouts, and the need to import significant electricity from other states just to keep the lights on, Newsom could no longer let his state play footsie with those opposing the basic laws of physics. Environmental activists — a cornerstone of Newsom’s political coalition — had spent decades opposing new nuclear power facilities in the state while working tirelessly to shut down existing ones. California’s last remaining nuclear power plant was set to close in 2025 and under no reasonable scenario was this a responsible course of action but mustering the political support to keep it open seemed daunting. Here’s how we framed the situation in a piece we wrote in December of 2021 called California Ditzkrieg (emphasis added throughout):
"The Diablo Canyon Power Plant has been cranking out carbon-free electricity for almost 40 years. It supplies nearly 8% of the state’s total power needs and 10% of what it produces for itself (this might come as a shock to our readers, but California suffers from extreme NIMBY Syndrome, and prefers to import roughly a quarter of its electricity needs from other states). As a share of the state’s baseload power, Diablo is an even more critical asset delivering approximately 20% of the state’s needs. As of this writing, we can find no credible plan to replace this steady and reliable grid anchor."
[WashingtonPost] The corpse count from two massive earthquakes and scores of aftershocks has risen to more than 8,300 in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... and Syria, officials said, as rescuers continue to comb the rubble for survivors in freezing temperatures.
Ottoman Turkish state media reported Wednesday that 6,234 people had died and 37,011 were maimed. In government-controlled parts of Syria, at least 812 people were killed and 1,449 injured, according to state media. In Syria’s rebel-held northwest, civil defense workers reported 1,280 deaths and more than 2,600 injured — a number they said they expected to rise significantly with hundreds still buried under rubble.
Ottoman Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay had earlier estimated that as many as 5,775 buildings had collapsed. Some 8,000 people have been pulled from the rubble.
The Syrian opposition-affiliated Civil Defense group, also known as the White Helmets, said on Tuesday that victims of the earthquake that hit The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... and Syria a day earlier have risen to 3.300.
The Civil Defense, which operates in the opposition-controlled northwest Syria, said that the toll of the devastating earthquake has reached 970 deaths and 2300 injuries.
It added that the number is highly expected to rise since dozens of families are still trapped under the rubble. It said that there are more than 150 families trapped in the town of Jinderis in Afrin countryside and in the towns of Azmarin and Salqin in Idlib northern countryside, which has been confirmed by North Press correspondents in the area.
The death toll from a massive earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria rises above 11,200 as rescuers race to save survivors trapped under debris in the winter cold.
Officials and medics say 8,574 people have died in Turkey and 2,662 in Syria from Monday’s 7.8-magnitude tremor, bringing the total to 11,236.
[KhaamaPress] Muhammad Zafar Paracha, General Secretary of the Exchange Companies Association of Pakistain (ECAP) has said to Bloomberg that nearly $5 million is smuggled to Afghanistan daily, and it plays a major role in the depreciation of Pak Rupees.
"Apparently the flow of international cash aid and the smuggled dollars into Afghanistan markets have helped Afghani to remain stable against the United States Dollar," Paracha said.
Paracha has said to Bloomberg that the Central Bank of Afghanistan auctions $17 million on a weekly basis, whereas Afghan markets need $10-$15 million on a daily basis. Khurram Schehzad, Chief Executive Officer of Alpha Beta Pakistain says that Afghanistan markets manage the shortage of USD through smuggled dollars from Pakistain.
While rejecting claims, Hasib Noori, the spokesperson of the Afghanistan Central Bank said that Afghanistan has enough dollar reserves to maintain the value of the local currency and support the economy.
The cash aid transferred to Afghanistan through the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... is converted to Afghani and this is how the dollar is added to central bank reserves. Additionally, customs taxes are collected in dollars, which is a main source of revenue for the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... regime.
As per the findings of Bloomberg, the exchange rate of $1 to 124.18 Afghani from last year has reached 89.96 Afghanis now. This is the strongest monetary reaction against USD worldwide. Meanwhile, ...back at the alley, Bugs Moroni was holding Slats from behind while his brother Greasy Thumb was pounding his face into paste ... the Pak rupee depreciated by 37% during this period, the biggest drop against the dollar globally.
Bloomberg states that Afghan traders export coal to Pakistain, they exchange Pak rupees for the dollar and then transfer it to Afghanistan through local money transfer companies. Furthermore, an Afghan trader said that the Taliban have ordered traders to import the dollar instead of the Pak rupee.
Meanwhile, ...back at the alley, Bugs Moroni was holding Slats from behind while his brother Greasy Thumb was pounding his face into paste ... the ban on transactions in the Pak rupee in Afghanistan and not allowing people to take away more than $5000 with them have helped Afghani to remain stable for the past year.
[ShabelleMedia] Fighting is raging on in the northern city of Las Anod between Somaliland troops and armed residents who want to be out of under Hargeisa control.
An official in the town said local forces managed to repel an attack by Somaliland forces against their entrance checkpoint on Monday morning.
The two sides engaged in a deadly shootout early in the morning as SSC traditional elders were preparing to announced the result of days-long conference in Las Anod city.
The meeting produced a communique that declare an autonomous regional state, free from the secessionist state after almost 15 years of oppressions and lack of freedom, they said.
At least 35 people were killed and dozens of others injured during Monday’s fighting.
The general hospital was coping with the civilians caught in the cross-fire and sustained wounds. The dead include a family of seven members whose house was hit by a mortar.
Since yesterday, Somaliland forces continued shelling the city as an attempt to prevent the elders to establish an administration that supports the greater Somalia and part of the Federal member states.
After the demonstrations and shootings in Lasanod in early January, many families left the city in fear of a full-blown of war between SSC forces and Somaliland troops.
A battle intensified for the second day in a row in Las Anod, witnesses said, with at least 24 people killed and 53 others injured as locals insisted they want to rejoin the federal government of Somalia by cutting ties with the regional administration of Somaliland.
The region declared self-independence in 1991 following a civil war in the North which had blessings of former military dictator Siad Barre but to date, the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... Security Council and other member states are yet to internationally recognize it. A number of clan elders now want Las Anod to be governed by Mogadishu.
Somaliland accused Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... of sending fighters to the troubled town to fight alongside local militia but the semi autonomous region of Somalia has since refuted the claims. Doctors said a total of 58 people have been killed for two days in Las Anod, adding to the over 20 who were killed last month.
Local elders in Las Anod said electricity and water had been cut off, and health centres attacked with mortars, Rooters reported.
"Somaliland forces are carrying out heavy attacks on medical facilities and civilian homes. The deaths and injuries of civilians cannot be counted," said Mukhtar Abdi, a resident of Las Anod, the administrative centre of Sool region.
Over the weekend, a number of local elders and members of the civil society from Las Anod insisted that they don't recognize Somalilaland. However it remains unclear who started the fight but tensions have been building in the town for the last one month..
"Today, the (perpetrators) were supported by militias from the neighbouring Puntland region of Somalia and the so called Khatumo militia in a carefully coordinated manner," Somaliland's state broadcaster said on Twitter.
Puntland's interior minister Abdi Farah Said Juhaa said his government, which has controlled the town in the past, was not involved in the fighting, and that Somaliland should withdraw its troops from Las Anod and other areas, Rooters reports.
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, the president of the federal republic of Somalia, for the umpteenth time asked the two warring parties to embrace ceasefire even as Somaliland maintained that it will not withdraw her soldiers from the region.
[FOX] The American public may have hit a "watershed" moment in awareness and understanding of Chinese surveillance methods, creating the opportunity to understand some of the more surprising ways in which Beijing carries out its information-gathering operations.
"What was interesting about this whole incident over the past week has been it is a wakeup call for your average American about how aggressive and extensive China's espionage activities are in this country," Matt McInnis, Senior Fellow for the Institute for the Study of War’s China program, told Fox News Digital.
"There is no more aggressive espionage activity going on probably in the world than what China has been conducting in the last few decades."
The Pentagon announced Thursday that the U.S. government had detected a high-altitude surveillance balloon, first spotted over Montana, where it hovered above Malmstrom Air Force Base. The U.S. uses the base to store nuclear weapons.
[WaPo] The U.S. intelligence community has linked the Chinese spy balloon shot down on Saturday to a vast surveillance program run by the People’s Liberation Army, and U.S. officials have begun to brief allies and partners who have been similarly targeted.
The surveillance balloon effort, which has operated for several years partly out of Hainan province off China’s south coast, has collected information on military assets in countries and areas of emerging strategic interest to China including Japan, India, Vietnam, Taiwan and the Philippines, according to several U.S. officials, who, like others interviewed for this story, spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity.
Officials have said these surveillance airships, operated in part by the PLA air force, have been spotted over five continents.
"What the Chinese have done is taken an unbelievably old technology, and basically married it with modern communications and observation capabilities" to try to glean intelligence on other nations’ militaries, said one official. "It’s a massive effort."
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#DOD says high altitude balloon over Montana yesterday was a spy balloon from #China. I did a quick run of the #NOAA HYSPLIT model to trace backwards the path of an object. Using 14K meters over Montana yesterday I get the following – Yup Central China!https://t.co/FHiG79f4th pic.twitter.com/DeZLjjkPei
— Dan Satterfield (@wildweatherdan) February 2, 2023
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^ But since nothing like that was actually possible, we're back to what is literally in front of us - that no matter where one falls on this issue, the US has just been exposed for the paper tiger we are and we're going to see the consequences of that in the very very near future.
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Why now? The Dump Joe and the Toe campaign is getting fired up and this is a shakedown run. Just my guess. Setting stage for either Big Mike or Buttgiggles.
[Defense News] China now has more Intercontinental Ballistic Missile launchers than the U.S. according to a congressional notification from U.S. Strategic Command, or STRATCOM, which oversees the nuclear arsenal.
The notification highlights China’s rapid advancements in its nuclear modernization program in recent years and has prompted congressional Republicans to call for "higher numbers and new capabilities" in the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
"It is not an understatement to say that the Chinese nuclear modernization program is advancing faster than most believed possible," Republican leaders on the congressional Armed Services Committee and strategic forces panels said in a joint statement. "We have no time to waste in adjusting our nuclear force posture to deter both Russia and China."
House Armed Services Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Ala., who issued the statement alongside Sens. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., Deb Fischer, R-Neb., and Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., previously singled out U.S. nuclear modernization to deter China, Russia and North Korea as one of his priorities for this year.
STRATCOM is required to notify Congress if China surpasses the U.S. in certain elements of its nuclear program, including the number of ICBM launchers. It provided Congress with a classified notification in November, prompting pushback from Republicans who noted that the law requires an unclassified notification as well.
The unclassified STRATCOM notice did not disclose how many launchers China possesses while noting it provided Congress with additional classified updates.
The U.S. has 450 ICBM launchers. The Pentagon’s 2022 China military power report noted that Beijing had approximately 300 ICBMs with the caveat that it "appears to be doubling the numbers of launchers in some ICBM units."
The report also found that China’s warhead stockpile has surpassed 400 and projected that "it will likely field a stockpile of about 1,500 warheads by its 2035 timeline" if it continues its current rate of nuclear expansion. The U.S. stockpile contained 3,750 nuclear warheads as of 2021, including 1,515 deployed warheads on ICBM launchers, submarine-launched ballistic missile launchers and heavy bombers.
Archaic thinking assumes a MAD strategy would continue to be embraced by both sides. It's quite clear the Chinese have a different value perspective of their population(s) than do we.
We've got a lot of work to do. Lots of stupid people who need to be educated about the threat of these nuclear-armed countries. There won't be regime change without action. These threats need to be removed, and soon. The next time it won't be a balloon.
[ResponsibleStatecraft] A large majority of Americans support talks aimed at reducing tensions with North Korea and China, according to a survey released Friday by The Harris Poll. The results are at odds with the state of opinion in Washington, where policy elites continue to one-up each other over how to respond to an incident in which an apparent Chinese surveillance balloon flew over the U.S. in recent days.
Two-thirds of respondents agreed that the U.S. should "engage in dialogue as much as possible to reduce tensions" with China, while 20 percent said Washington should "not restart official dialogue and instead spend more money on military build-up." Support for talks focused on deescalation went up by five points since 2021, when Harris last asked the question. 20 percent of Americans get it. We need that number in the sixties, at least.
Meanwhile, 68 percent of Americans polled told Harris that President Joe Biden should offer to hold direct talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, and 58 percent said the United States should offer diplomatic or economic incentives "in exchange for steps toward denuclearization." The Russian stooge Trump tried that and got nowhere. Fat, warmongering, and stoopid is no way to go through life, Bob
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[Investopedia] The U.S. trade deficit hit a record of almost $1 trillion in 2022, with more than a third of the total coming from trade with China.
The annual goods and services trade deficit rose 12.2% to $948.1 billion, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday. The goods deficit jumped 9.3% to $1.19 trillion, while the services surplus declined 0.6% to $243.7 billion.1
The deficit with China was the largest, climbing $29.4 billion to $382.9 billion. It was followed by the European Union (EU) at $203.9 billion, Mexico at $130.6 billion, and Vietnam at $116.1 billion. The U.S. recorded a trade surplus with South and Central America, totaling $76.2 billion, and the Netherlands at $38.3 billion.
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We want to buy a forward facing camera for our new car, Mrs. Ret is having issues judging where the nose is and I am not advocating parking by the Braille method. Anyway, her research turned up several but, upon further review, discovered all were made in China. Looks like back to bump and stop.
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A trillion here, and a trillion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money!
With apologies to the late Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen.
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We want to buy a forward facing camera for our new car, Mrs. Ret is having issues judging where the nose is and I am not advocating parking by the Braille method. Anyway, her research turned up several but, upon further review, discovered all were made in China. Looks like back to bump and stop.
My paternal grandfather set up a sighting system where my grandmother would look at a reference point in the car and matched it with another reference point outside. She could not drive further in than this.
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The fentanyl catastrophy, the massive PLA expansions, the arrogance of every interaction, the Elite Capture strategy, the University Confucius Institute program, massive farmland purchases, industrial espionage on a scale never imagined, academic infiltration, etc. Every bit of it is the result of this!
Soft headed foreign policy created the exportation of the American industrial base and the financial wealth they used to build the robust adversary military we are now destined to fight kinetically in the near future.
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What gets me is, there's enough stuff in mini-storage units, used furniture stores and flea markets across America to obviate the need for most Chinese imports excepting new electronic crap (which smart people don't buy sourced from China) and brand new throw away plastic crap.
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/\ I agree. Prohibit anything from China to be sold at Target and Walmart for 90 days. Rinse & repeat as necessary. If that has no impact, add Lowes and Home Depot.
[NAIL] U.S. Border Patrol agents testifying before the Oversight Committee on Tuesday acknowledged that the amount of fentanyl seized at the southern border so far this year is enough to kill nearly five times the population of the U.S.
Tucson Sector Chief Patrol Agent John Modlin noted that 700 pounds of fentanyl was seized in his area alone in 2022, which he noted was enough to kill half the population of the United States.
Committee member, GOP Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee explained that the heart-stopping amounts of the synthetic opioid caused the overdose deaths of the hundreds of citizens in his Tennessee district last year alone.
Burchett recited Department of Homeland Security (DHS) figures that show 9,400 pounds of fentanyl were seized in the country so far this year.
'And approximately 76 percent, or 7,200 pounds of that was seized coming through our southwest border,' he added.
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I believe we need to take a different approach. Drug dealing after the second conviction should be a capitol offence. Distribution, like we see here, should also be a direct capitol offence. Anyone who has a methhead in the family, dead or alive, know it not only destroys the addict, but tears apart the family. The drug victims are the survivors of a family member thats an addict.
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And because we've all been paying attention, we know that if they admit to that amount, we can be sure the real stat is at least triple that.
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I'll second 49 Pan but who will show the balls to break up that on going pool party in the pic?
[IsraelTimes] No comment from Wikimedia Foundation as to whether it removed any material, but it previously said it doesn’t make decisions about what is posted
Wikipedia was back online in Pakistain on Tuesday, after the country’s prime minister ordered authorities to lift a block imposed on the online encyclopedia over "blasphemous content."
Blasphemy is a sensitive issue in Moslem-majority Pakistain, and Facebook and YouTube have previously been banned for publishing content deemed sacrilegious.
Minister of Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb tweeted a copy of the order that stated: "The Prime Minister is pleased to direct that the website (Wikipedia) may be restored with immediate effect."
The Wikimedia Foundation — the non-profit fund that manages Wikipedia — told AFP on Monday that it "was made aware that the Pakistain Telecommunications Authority (PTA) had been directed to restore access to Wikipedia" and hoped to see online traffic in Pakistain "resume soon."
Last week, the PTA gave Wikipedia 48 hours to remove content deemed "blasphemous," before it blocked the website.
An agency front man had said Saturday that Wikipedia would "remain blocked until they remove all the objectionable material," without specifying what content was at issue.
On Tuesday, the website was once again accessible.
’SHARE KNOWLEDGE’
According to the order published Monday, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had instructed a committee made up of three government ministers to examine the PTA’s decision to block Wikipedia.
The committee found that the "unintended consequences of this blanket ban... outweigh its benefits," according to the document, signed by principal secretary to the prime minister Syed Tauqir Shah.
Another ministerial committee would be established to further examine the issue, it added.
"The people of Pakistain rely on Wikipedia both as a knowledge resource and as a pathway to share their knowledge with others," a Wikimedia spokesperson said.
"Lifting this ban means that the people of Pakistain can continue to benefit from and participate in its growth within a global movement that strives to spread and share knowledge that is verified, reliable and free."
The organization did not immediately respond to an AFP query on if it had taken any action to remove certain content.
It said in a previous statement that "the Wikimedia Foundation does not make decisions around what content is included on Wikipedia or how that content is maintained."
"We respect and support the editorial decisions made by the community of editors around the world," it added.
Free speech campaigners have highlighted what they say is a pattern of rising government censorship of Pakistain’s printed and electronic media.
Pakistain blocked YouTube from 2012 to 2016 after it carried a film about the Prophet Mohammed that led to violent mostly peaceful protests across the Moslem world.
In recent years, the country has also blocked the wildly popular video-sharing app TikTok several times over "indecent" and "immoral" content.
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In a battle between Pakistan and Wikipedia about content the most likely casualty is the truth.
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[BenarNews] The Chinese coasties was "tailing and harassing" Philippine law enforcement ships in the South China Sea, possibly due to Manila’s recently announced security agreements with Washington, a maritime security expert said on Tuesday.
China Coast Guard (CCG) ship 5205 "stopped, harassed and followed Philippine Coast Guard BRP Malapascua near Sabina Shoal for more than eight hours on Monday," alleged Ray Powell, the Project Myoushu (South China Sea) lead at Stanford University in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,.
Sabina Shoal is a feature located at the so-called Dangerous Grounds in the Spratly Islands, well inside the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ) but also claimed by China.
An EEZ gives a state exclusive access to the natural resources in the waters and seabed but those in the South China Sea overlap with the so-called nine-dash line that China uses to claim "historical rights" to most of the sea.
On Tuesday, the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs told BenarNews that the incident alleged by Powell "still needs to be verified."
The same expert last Wednesday told Radio Free Asia (RFA) that two CCG ships were monitoring and tailing the movements of the naval patrol vessel BRP Andres Bonifacio near Mischief Reef, also inside the Philippine EEZ.
The Philippine Coast Guard on Saturday confirmed the report to a number of media outlets, including Bloomberg and CNN ...the organization formerly known as the Cable News Network. Now who knows what it might stand for... , but backtracked Monday, saying last week’s incident was "unverified."
REGULAR HARASSMENT
In the latest event that took place on Monday, Powell, analyzing automatic identification system (AIS) signals transmitted by vessels, said the CCG 5205 came to a stop right across the BRP Malapascua's path on Sunday evening before "going dark," or switching off its AIS signals.
The BRP Malapascua then slowed down and "essentially stopped" for hours east of Sabina Shoal.
Data obtained by RFA from the ship tracking website MarineTraffic show the Philippine law enforcement vessel left the area Monday morning without stopping at Sabina Shoal and went west.
Powell told RFA he was "confident" that the CCG 5205 remained in close contact and had a "protracted confrontation" with the Philippine vessel.
While Monday’s incident is yet to be confirmed by Philippine authorities, CCG ships have reportedly stepped up their activities and harassment against Philippine law enforcement vessels in the Philippines EEZ.
Last December, the Chinese coasties was accused of stopping the warship BRP Andres Bonifacio from approaching Scarborough Shoal, known in the Philippines as Panatag Shoal, which is only 198 kilometers (123 miles) from the strategic Subic Bay but under China’s control.
A U.N. tribunal in 2016 dismissed China’s sweeping claims over most of the South China Sea, including Scarborough Shoal, but Beijing refused to recognize the ruling.
Last November, CCG ship 5203 intercepted a Philippine Navy ship which was towing some wreckage from a Chinese Long March rocket and seized the wreckage.
The following month, CCG vessel 5205 attempted to obstruct a Philippine naval ship that was carrying supplies for troops stationed on the grounded BRP Sierra Madre at the Second Thomas Shoal.
"We may be seeing an uptick in harassment incidents directed at the Philippines specifically, possibly due to the administration’s recently announced security agreements with the U.S.," said Powell, adding that "Beijing uses a variety of tools to punish and discourage behavior it doesn’t like."
JOINT PATROLS
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin made an official visit to the Philippines last week, during which Manila agreed to grant the U.S. access to a total of nine military bases in the country.
The two sides also agreed to restart a plan to conduct joint patrols in the South China Sea that was shelved under former President Rodrigo Duterte, a move analysts said is much needed amid China’s increasing assertiveness in the disputed waters.
A new study by the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI), a research institution at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington D.C., asserted that CCG ships "maintained near-daily patrols at key features" in the sea, despite that most of them are located in neighboring countries’ EEZs.
CCG vessels have been accused of regularly harassing oil and gas exploration activities by Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam.
Six parties hold contesting claims over the resource-rich South China Sea but China’s claims are by far the most expansive.
The Chinese coasties now has a powerful fleet of around 150 vessels, Kyodo news agency reported recently, quoting sources familiar with the matter.
Around 20 vessels were transferred from the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy, it said.
The Chinese coasties now has more than twice the 70 large patrol vessels possessed by the Japan Coast Guard, Kyodo said, adding that the Japanese government "has become increasingly alarmed" about the development.
Tokyo and Beijing have been embroiled in a long-standing dispute over the Senkaku Islands, which China calls Diaoyu and are under Japan’s control but also claimed by China.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
[NAIL] U.S. Border Patrol agents testifying before the Oversight Committee on Tuesday acknowledged that the amount of fentanyl seized at the southern border so far this year is enough to kill nearly five times the population of the U.S.
