Japan's Defense White Paper Part I, Chapter 3 Situation surrounding Taiwan:

"The overall military balance between China and Taiwan is shifting rapidly in favor of China. China has increased its coercive military activity around Taiwan.

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ECOWAS will cease to exist in the event of a military invasion of Niger. The organization will collapse, which will play into the hands of the opponents of the unification of African countries.

📝 This was stated by the "PM" of the Transitional Government of Mali, Shogel Maiga.

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Indian Navy non-nuclear submarine S25 Vagir Kalvari-class came to Fremantle in Western Australia.

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IRAN – IRGC Ground Forces: 333mm Flaq-2 smart rocket fired from a new launcher designed for this rocket.

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UKRAINE – Khreshchatyk Street in central Kyiv now has a non-moving parade of Russian military equipment - not quite what Putin had in mind. Traffic in the center will be restricted from 11.00 p.m. on Aug. 20 to 11.30 p.m. on Aug. 28 as the country celebrates Independence Day on Aug. 24.

🔗 Euan MacDonald

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A military intervention in Niger by the countries of the ECOWAS is unacceptable because it will destabilize the situation in many African countries, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday – TASS

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IRAQ – U.S. Army convoys in the city of Erbil, northern Iraq, earlier today.

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USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) Nimitz-class aircraft carrier leaving San Diego in advance of Hurricane Hilary - August 19, 2023

🔗 WarshipCam

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Poland has adopted two FA-50 fighter jets manufactured by the South Korean company Korea Aerospace Industries.

By the end of 2023, Seoul plans to deliver 10 more FA-50 aircraft to Warsaw.

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BREAKING – The U.S. State Department announced it has approved Poland’s request to buy 96 AH-64E Apache attack helicopters for a maximum of USD 12 billion.

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The trilateral ties among Japan, the Republic of Korea and the United States will make the world safer and the three countries stronger, President Biden said at the conclusion of talks at Camp David, Maryland.

🔗 U.S. Forces Japan

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Watch Adm. Daryl Caudle, commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command, give a quick update on the importance of training and the recently completed Large Scale Exercise 2023, which reinforced a culture of learning and increased our warfighting readiness.

🔗 U.S. Fleet Forces

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NEW – Taiwan is set to receive the first batch of M1A2T Abrams next year, President Tsai Ing-wen announced during a government budget briefing on Monday (Aug. 21).

Thirty-eight tanks will arrive in 2024, 42 tanks in 2025, and 28 tanks in 2026, according to the Ministry of National Defense. The U.S. approved the sale of 108 Abrams in 2019 for US$ 2.2 billion (NT$70.3 billion).

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NEW – USAF Boeing KC-135T Stratotanker airborne on a mission in Lithuania.

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Australia will buy more than 200 Tomahawk cruise missiles from the U.S. for a total amount of $830 million.

This move aims to address China's growing military power in the region.

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BREAKING – Iran: The IRGC/GF began with the mass production of the "Khorramshahr" medium-range ballistic missile, and the "Haj Qasim" ballistic missile.

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TAIWAN – 15 Chinese PLA aircraft and 10 PLAN vessels around Taiwan were detected by 6 a.m.(UTC+8)

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