Would you say the same for the Philippines then? 🤔

Except in the case of not passing CCP’s scientific evaluation, if there’s indeed science to begin with. 🤷🏻‍♂️

This is just making too much distraction. While unable to produce a concrete physical proof of any such agreement, Beijing pulls Manila (and the international community) by the nose around circles of its narrative trap. Time to put this nonsense to rest. reuters.com/world/asia-pac…

Hard-hitting good piece by my friend Trystanto 👍🏼👇🏼

Good news. Potentially VFAs with France and New Zealand, RAA with Japan to add to existing agreements with Australia and the U.S. apnews.com/article/france…

Maybe a way to deal with pesky maritime militia? 😉

Friday comfort food: radish soup. Just basic ingredients - radish (the sweeter Korean variety), meat, red dates and wolfberries, with a little salt to taste. 🥣

When it could have been decisive in helping to keep the momentum of the counteroffensive, and that the Russians had yet to catch up on drones, these machines failed to arrive in time on the battlefield thanks to all the political dithering. apnews.com/article/ukrain…

There's a greater likelihood of a Pearl Harbor 2.0 with a PRC strike indeed. Just saying.

Unless the intention is to create a sonic boom to shatter windows in Ketagalan Boulevard, missiles, drones and air-launched standoff weapons would be preferred options instead of having manned PLA jets zip over the area.

'Mohamad said Malaysia firmly adheres to the one-China policy and opposes external forces stirring up trouble in the South China Sea.' Some common language Anwar Government has recently aligned with Beijing. english.news.cn/20240425/40fdd…

'Within months, Google rolled out YouTube Shorts and Instagram pushed out its Reels feature. Both mimicked the short-form video creation that TikTok had excelled at.'

There's life beyond TikTok, perhaps even more exciting than that. apnews.com/article/india-…

Officially atheist CCP doesn't know for sure, but it's more than happy for God to know. 🙃

Be precise, it’s just FOUR of them including a former president known for flipping words like a pancake. You conveniently forgot public surveys done by different PH pollsters spanning years that consistently show majority of Filipinos hold negative perceptions of PRC.

GT interview with a handful of disenchanted Filipinos led it to conclude PBBM “loses hearts of local people”. I wonder how it views the public surveys by different PH pollsters that consistently demonstrate support for tougher SCS line against Beijing. globaltimes.cn/page/202404/13…

Japan MSDF is one of the rare few navies which take mine warfare very seriously, investing significantly in both minelayers (the larger ships pictured here the Uraga class, also a MCMV tender), and successive MCMV classes. Majority Indo-Pac navies pale in comparison.

“These incidents indicate that the US society will be further torn apart and will become more divided before and after the election.”

PRC propagandists readying their popcorn and cola to watch this with glee, or so they assume… 🤷🏻‍♂️

“Guardian of world peace and important stabilizing force in the current regional situation” = harassing boat with Filipino TV crew, beaming sonar at Australian divers, radio warning at foreign navies on high seas, close-in maneuvers at foreign military aircraft in int’l airspace?

As if the former president isn’t enough, GT had no choice but to bring out his former spox too. Not that anything he said makes a difference. Or maybe both need reminder that if they had such misplaced disbelief then Duterte wouldn’t have rescinded his plan to scrap the VFA.

All 4 Invincible boats in, and a rather nice image of the final unit. 👍🏼👇🏼