🇨🇳❌🇹🇼 — 📰 ZeroHedge | The Military Imbalance In The Taiwan Strait | June 3, 2025:

"U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth drew some controversy over the weekend after he called China a "real" and potentially "imminent" threat and said that the country was “credibly preparing to potentially use military force to alter the balance of power in the Indo-Pacific”.

The comments were made Saturday at the Shangri-La Dialogue security summit in Singapore.

In the chart below, Statista's Katharina Buchholz shows the balance (or rather imbalance) of military power in the Taiwan Strait."

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🇨🇳🆗🧪🤝🏎🏎 — 📰 Reuters | Exclusive: China issues rare earth licenses to suppliers of top 3 US automakers, sources say:

"BEIJING/WASHINGTON, June 6 (Reuters) — China has granted temporary export licenses to rare-earth suppliers of the top three U.S. automakers, two sources familiar with the matter said, as supply chain disruptions begin to surface from Beijing's export curbs on those materials.

At least some of the licenses are valid for six months, the two sources said, declining to be named because the information is not public. It was not immediately clear what quantity or items are covered by the approval or whether the move signals China is preparing to ease the rare-earths licensing process, which industry groups say is cumbersome and has created a supply bottleneck.

China's decision in April to restrict exports of a wide range of rare earths and related magnets has tripped up the supply chains central to automakers, aerospace manufacturers, semiconductor companies and military contractors around the world."

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🇨🇴👮‍♂️❗️— Colombian National Police capture one of the men whom trying to kill Senator and presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay.

The National Police confirms that a minor may also be involved in the incident.

🏴🚩❌🇺🇸👮‍♂️ — Far-left militants from People's City Council released video of one of their "comrades" threatening LAPD Officers at the Los Angeles riot for open borders last night

All over social media, Antifa-affiliated Communist and anarchist cliques have been calling for direct action on Police across California

🔗 People's City Council - Los Angeles (@PplsCityCouncil):

🇺🇦❌🇷🇺 — Russian State media reports Russian Air Defenses are engaging on Drones over Moscow, capital of Russian Federation

🇺🇸🪖❌🚩🏴 — US Vice President JD Vance on the Far-Left Riots in California:

For the far left rioters, some helpful advice;

peaceful protest is good.
Rioting and obstructing justice is not.

https://fxtwitter.com/JDVance/status/1931527712486605275

🇪🇨🇨🇴 — The President of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, issued a statement condemning the attack on presidential pre-candidate Miguel Uribe.

"With deep sorrow, I stand with Senator Miguel Uribe’s family in this difficult moment. My respect and prayers are with you.

We condemn all forms of violence and intolerance. You are not alone."

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🇺🇸❌🇨🇴🌹 — United States Government, via Secretary of State Marco Rubio, condemns the Assassination attempt on Senator Miguel Uribe and accuses Colombian Lefist President Gustavo Petro of being the cause for such, as Petro and his Party have been pinning on Senator Uribe as the main actor against Petro's Socialist Reforms on Colombian Senate

The United States condemns in the strongest possible terms the attempted assassination of Senator Miguel Uribe.

This is a direct threat to democracy and the result of the violent leftist rhetoric coming from the highest levels of the Colombian government.

Having seen firsthand Colombia’s progress over the past few decades to consolidate security and democracy, it can’t afford to go back to dark days of political violence.

President Petro needs to dial back the inflammatory rhetoric and protect Colombian officials.

We stand in prayer with Miguel’s family, loved ones, and his supporters.
Those responsible for this attack must face justice.

https://x.com/SecRubio/status/1931529095222894940

🇬🇧 The UK population now has the lowest ranked mental wellbeing score in the world. Around 40% of the entire population are distressed/struggling. And this is the culmination of decades of decline in so many areas in the UK. It’s horrendous what is happening to the country.

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🇬🇧 The UK Government believes 42% of Brits believe in terrorist ideology.

We have insane people running this country.

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🇬🇧📈 Net migration of foreign nationals to the UK

📝 Way of the World on X: You're being replaced.

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🇺🇸🛸 The Pentagon has confirmed it spent decades peddling bunk UFO theories to obscure highly classified weapons programs, going back to the 1980s when it disseminated doctored photos of flying saucers near Area 51 while using the site to develop stealth fighters.

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🇸🇪 30 power lines have been sabotaged all over Sweden

Unknown persons damaged more than 30 communication towers

In all cases, the attackers cut the cables and damaged important elements, without stealing any equipment.

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🇧🇫🇲🇽❌🇺🇸 — Photo: Antifa and Chicano rioters wave a Burkina Faso flag during the ongoing Pro-Migration Riots in California

Burkina Faso is under a de facto rule of a Third-Worldist, Pan-Africanist Marxist Military Junta, with large swaps of the country under Al-Qaeda-control

🇺🇸🇺🇸🪖📹 — California National Guard arrives in Los Angeles

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