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🇨🇳❌🇹🇼⚡️China’s Coast Guard announced it has organized vessel formations to conduct comprehensive law-enforcement patrols in waters surrounding Taiwan, including areas near the Matsu and Wuqiu islands.

🇰🇷🕊🇰🇵 — South Korean government will move to open Rodong Sinmun, North Korean ruling party WPK (Worker's Party of Korea)'s newspaper, to the South Korean public

National Intelligence Service also said that they are "considering lifting bans on North Korean websites"

🔗 Nine-tailed Fox 🇰🇷 (@saber_k086)

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🇹🇼✈️🚫⁉️Taiwan’s Civil Aviation Authority says Chinese military exercises are seriously affecting air safety, and alternative routes are being considered to manage air traffic.

🇹🇷❌🏴— Turkish television reports that seven police officers were injured in a shooting during a security operation targeting Islamic State suspects in Yalova province, in the country’s northwest.

🇨🇳❌🇹🇼Today, the PLA’s Eastern Theater Command launched the “Justice Mission–2025” exercises.

➡️In comments to Chinese state media, National Defense University professor Zhang Chi said “decapitation” is a key concept of the drills, which simulated strikes on symbolic targets linked to leaders of Taiwan independence forces.

🇨🇳He stated the exercises show the PLA’s ability to conduct precise punitive actions against the main figures of Taiwan independence at any time.

🇨🇳❌🇹🇼China’s Coast Guard has released an exercise-style poster noscriptd “Patrol and Control” after announcing so-called “law enforcement” patrols around Taiwan.

🇨🇳The image shows Coast Guard vessels encircling the island, with key ports and critical infrastructure depicted as being sealed off.

🇮🇩Reports on Indonesian social media claim Indonesia may acquire the Buk-M2K air defense system, though the government has not confirmed it.

➡️The Belarusian system was showcased at Indo Defence 2024 and is being marketed to Southeast Asian countries.

🇷🇺📞🇺🇦❓— Zelensky may speak with Putin for the first time in five years, following a meeting with Trump, though the idea is controversial in Ukraine. Washington is pushing to accelerate peace efforts.

🔗https://www.foxnews.com/world/trump-meets-zelenskyy-talks-could-unlock-first-zelenskyy-putin-call-five-years-source

🇮🇳🇲🇦India’s Tata Advanced Systems Ltd. (TASL) has delivered the first batch of WhAP 8x8 armored vehicles to the Royal Moroccan Army.

➡️Produced at a new 20,000 m² facility in Berrechid near Casablanca, the vehicles are set to enter service in October 2025.

➡️The WhAP, developed with India’s DRDO, is a modular armored platform designed for troop transport, fire support, command, and other roles.

🇮🇷🇾🇪🇸🇦🇶🇦🇦🇪— In the context of the Netanyahu-Trump meeting, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has conducted a series of political talks in recent days.

➡️After speaking with the Houthi Foreign Minister and the foreign ministers of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, he also held discussions with the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates.

🇨🇳❌🇹🇼— A PLAAF J-16 has been spotted through the targeting pod of a Taiwanese F-16. Location remains unknown.

🔗國防部 Ministry of National Defense, ROC(Taiwan) 🇹🇼 (@MoNDefense)

🇨🇳❌🇸🇴🇮🇱 — Communist China Foreign Ministry Spokesman Lin Jian condemns the recognition of Somaliland by the State of Israel:

China firmly supports Somalia’s sovereignty, reunification, and territorial integrity.

📝 Noteworthy that Somaliland recognizes ROC as an independent country

🇨🇳📞🇸🇴 — Chinese Ambassador Wang Yu had an urgent phone call with Somali FM Abdisalam Ali affirmed China’s firm support to Somalia’s sovereignty, national unity & territorial integrity. Both expressed strong joint opposition to secessionism undermining the core interests of the two countries.

🔗 Chinese Embassy in Somalia (@ChineseSomalia)