🇵🇱 Europe has moved into the pre-war era, this has not happened since 1945 - Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk

"What is most alarming now is that literally any scenario is possible. We haven't experienced a situation like this since 1945. I know it sounds crushing, especially for people of the younger generation, but we must morally get used to the new era. We are in pre-war times. I'm not exaggerating. Every day it is more and more evident," he told El pais.

He also urged Europeans to spend more on defense. In particular, he reminded about the need to allocate at least 2% of GDP to defense, according to the fundamental principle of NATO.

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⚛️🌘❗️ — 📰 Daily Mail: CERN to test world's most powerful particle accelerator during April's solar eclipse to search for 'invisible' matter that secretly powers our universe

➡️ The world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator is set smash protons together on April 8 to search for invisible particles secretly powering our universe.

➡️ Theories have suggested there are 17 different particle groups and the European Organization for Nuclear Research, better known as CERN, confirmed the existence of one using its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2012.

➡️ Now, the team has restarted LHC after a two-year hibernation with hopes of unraveling more mysterious - specifically dark matter.

➡️ Scientists began preliminary tests by sending billions of protons around LHC's ring of superconducting magnets to boost their energy and ensure the $4 billion machine was in working condition.

➡️ And next month, CERN will shoot them down a 17-mile-long tunnel at nearly the speed of light to recreate conditions a second after the Big Bang.

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📱📈❗️🇺🇸 — 🇯🇵 Nikkei Asia | Huawei says 2023 net profit doubled despite U.S. crackdown | Chinese tech titan saw good growth for smartphones and car business | March 29, 2024:

"TAIPEI -- China's Huawei Technologies said on Friday its net profit more than doubled in 2023, with revenue in all business segments rising on the year.

At 87 billion yuan ($12 billion), Huawei's net profit was the highest in the past five years, excluding 2021, when it recognized an undisclosed amount of gain from spinning off its budget smartphone line, Honor.

The numbers provide a strong sign that the company has been able to withstand a sustained crackdown by Washington that includes stringent export controls.

Huawei's resurgence in the domestic smartphone market, in particular, has put pressure on rivals, most notably Apple.

Once the world's second-largest smartphone maker, Huawei said revenue from its sanctions-hit consumer electronics business grew 17.3% versus 2022 to 251.5 billion yuan last year, and that the momentum is continuing into the first quarter of this year."

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🇨🇳❌🇹🇼 A Chinese military training site in China's Inner Mongolia region is an exact replica of the road network near Taiwan's Presidential Palace.

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🇨🇳 May 27h, 2020 | China’s Largest Base Has Replicas Of Taiwan’s Presidential Building, Eiffel Tower

Zhurihe, also known as the Zhurihe Combined Tactics Training Base, is China's largest training base by physical size. Observers have compared it, together with its adjacent training ranges, to the U.S. Army's Fort Irwin in southern California and that base's associated sprawling National Training Center (NTC). The NTC is home to a large number of diverse facilities that also give the Army room to conduct large scale unit exercises covering a wide variety of combat scenarios. As with the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment at the NTC, Zhurihe also has its own dedicated units to play the role of enemy forces during drills. These are known as the "Blue Army," a play on the Western term "Red Force" to refer to Opposing Forces during exercises.

By the mid-2000s, Zhurihe's facilities had significantly expanded in size and scope, with a heavy emphasis on features that would be used to prepare forces for what the U.S. military calls Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT). By the end of 2014, it had further grown to include the Taiwan-related structures, as well as other features to support larger exercises, including an associated operational air base with a more than 9,000-foot-long runway to the northwest and a huge railhead to allow the rapid movement of vehicles, heavy weapons, other equipment, and personnel to and from the site. All of this is visible in high-resolution satellite imagery of the area that The War Zone recently obtained.

Zhurihe's most interesting, unique, and curious features are found at the southern end of the base. This is where the huge full-size realistic urban training areas, as well as a mock air base, are situated.

A closeup of the Taipei section at Zhurihe. The building at the right mimics the Presidential Office Building, while the rectangular white structure in the upper middle is modeled after the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.,

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🇷🇺🪖❗️ — 🇷🇺 RIA Novosti: A decree on spring connoscription for military service in the Russian Federation has been published. According to the document signed by the President of the Russian Federation, from April 1 to July 15, 150 thousand people aged 18 to 30 will be called up for military service in the Russian Federation.

🇦🇷👨‍💻💰Argentina Unveiled Mandatory Registry For Bitcoin And Crypto Platforms.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/03/31/argentina-unveiled-mandatory-registry-for-bitcoin-and-crypto-platforms/

🇨🇳🫳🇵🇦 — 📰 Diálogo Américas | Panama: China’s Strategic Hub | March 29, 2024:

"Nearly 6 percent of global trade and 57.5 percent of the cargo transported in container that ships from Asia to the East Coast of the United States passes through the Panama Canal. Today, this important infrastructure is the focus of great concern in political, economic, and academic sectors given the growing presence of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). “China has turned Panama into a geographic and commercial concentration center or strategic hub for its political, commercial, and military advance in the region,” Euclides Tapia, professor at the School of International Relations of the University of Panama, told Diálogo.

Sino-Panamanian commercial relations are long standing, however, only since 2017, when both nations strengthened diplomatic ties, did the influence and interference of the Asian country become noticeable. “I am not wrong in saying that since Panama broke relations with Taiwan to establish them with China the country’s independence has been extremely compromised,” Tapia said.

Since the beginning of the century, the PRC has infiltrated Latin America, overcoming physical and cultural barriers. It is now the region’s second largest trading partner. According to the World Economic Forum, in just two decades, its bilateral relations have increased 26-fold, from $12 billion in 2000 to $315 billion in 2020."

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🐧💻💻 Debian is considering going back ~2 years to before the malicious dev (Jia Tan) committed any code. First commit to xz happened on 10 June 2022: https://git.tukaani.org/?p=xz.git;a=commitdiff;h=aa75c5563a760aea3aa23d997d519e702e82726b
- Full commit history of Jia Tan to xz: https://git.tukaani.org/?p=xz.git;a=search;h=HEAD;pg=0;s=Jia+Tan;st=author
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1068024

https://twitter.com/pcaversaccio/status/1774379473426669845

🇦🇷🏴‼️🇨🇴 — Milei and Petro deactivated the diplomatic conflict, and the Colombian ambassador returns to Buenos Aires; a statement issued by the Argentine Foreign Ministry confirms this issue:

"By precise instructions from the presidents of both nations, the Foreign Ministries of Colombia and Argentina have held conversations to strengthen diplomatic relations, in line with the traditional relations of brotherhood, civility, and the links between both peoples in the political, commercial, cultural, and institutional spheres."

➡️ The document, recently released, emphasizes the importance of maintaining "good relations" between both nations and, at the same time, setting aside any disagreements.

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