🇨🇳 🤝 🇲🇽 After a non-stop journey of over 14,000 kilometers and 16 hours, the longest commercial passenger flight from China's Shenzhen landed safely and received a grand water cannon salute at Mexico City airport.

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🇻🇪 🇬🇾 Venezuela expands military presence at Guyana border in ‘perpetual prewar footing,’ says report

🔶️ Venezuela continues to build up military infrastructure and hardware close to the border with Guyana as President Nicolas Maduro and his supporters scale up their threats to annex an oil-rich piece of Guyanese land.

🔶️ Using satellite imagery and social media, CSIS found that the expansion of Anacoco Island’s military base has continued. A bridge is seen being built across the Cuyuni River to connect the Venezuelan riverbank to the island, which has been a point of contention between the countries after it was awarded to Guyana in an 1899 ruling by an international tribunal. Venezuela annexed it in the 1960s.

🔶️ The island’s airfield has expanded and now includes a small control tower, CSIS writes. Satellite imagery from March showed an area next to the airfield with more than 75 field tents, “enough for a battalion-sized unit of several hundred personnel.” The field tents have since been relocated to the southern side of the airfield “demonstrating the base’s continued ability to provide logistics and resupply for a sizeable military force continuously for over a month,” it wrote.

🔶️ Meanwhile, by the coast, at least two Iranian-built Peykaap III (Zolfaghar) fast missile boats are seen at Venezuela’s small coast guard station at Punta Barima, “placing Venezuelan missiles and naval forces within arm’s reach of the Guyana-administered Essequibo” as it just 40 miles (64 kilometers) from the Guyanese border.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/14/americas/venezuela-essequibo-guyana-csis-intl-latam/index.html

Is the 17th most intense solar flare ever recorded and it is the most intense flare seen since 2017 btw

NEW - Christine Lagarde, European Central Bank head, believes "climate change" requires a redesign of the entire economy and financial system, in line with the "green" Net Zero transition, including the need to "reduce our carbon footprint in everything we do, from banknotes to how we supervise banks."

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JUST IN: Vanguard hires BlackRock's global head of ETFs Salim Ramji as new CEO.

Vanguard banned all spot Bitcoin ETFs from their platform in January.

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🇨🇳 🇮🇳 How 2 nuclear powers fight:

🔶️ China released footage of previous border skirmishes with India on the shore of Pangong Tso aka Pangong Lake.

🔶️ Both sides have agreement not to use firearms in border skirmishes. Sticks and stones is the way

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⚠️‼️ IMPORTANT ‼️⚠️

🔴 EU adopts the new 'Migration Pact" (14/05/24)
>https://archive.is/IryF3

👉 Part 1/2

🔍 It consists of 10 reforms, some of the most notable are:

1️⃣👉 New mandatory Asylum procedures at 'external borders' will not allow immigrants to enter EU territory while at the same time focusing on making "a quick assessment" at the external border regarding the validity of applications

2️⃣👉 Change in responsibilities, forcing countries of arrival or which house relatives of applicants to be responsible for the application and applicant

‼️ 1️⃣ and 2️⃣ aim to prevent 'refugees' from moving on their own from border countries to other countries such as Germany both before and after the application review

3️⃣👉 "Mandatory solidarity": a new 'migrant relocation quota system' stipulated by the EU will force countries to accept immigrants OR pay EUR 20.000 per rejection

⚠️‼️👉 Previous post series on the New EU Migration Pact (full breakdown)

👉 Part 2/2

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