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Beijing’s missile test accelerates calls for a Pacific-wide defence pact.
Kuan Bi-ling said Beijing is pressing Taiwan below the war threshold; another official warned that temporary patrols can become normalized.
The CCP’s action is intended to intimidate but will bring U.S.-led Western allies and countries in the region closer to counter its threat, experts said.
A series of high-level appointments has renewed questions about Xi Jinping’s leadership strategy and plans for the next political cycle.
Taiwan said the assault, carried out by a Chinese man, was an example of China’s transnational repression.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is visiting Melbourne from July 8 as part of the Australia-India Annual Leaders’ Summit.
Residents questioned reservoir releases during high tide, while a separate breach sent floodwaters and hundreds of farmed snakes into downstream villages.
A new rule on clans, hometown associations infringes upon basic human rights and is another tool for the CCP’s transnational repression, experts say.
One Pacific leader said the move could spur island nation leaders to fast-track a regional defence pact.
Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale said he had registered his ’strong protest' over the incident.
The missile flew past Palau, the U.S. territories Guam and Northern Mariana Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and landed near Nauru.
Complainants say the July 1 measure forces them to get provincial paperwork before challenging local officials at central petition offices.
Defense officials said the shift responds to Chinese Communist Party infiltration, gray-zone pressure, and cognitive warfare aimed at the ranks.
The test comes barely a few hours after Australia and Fiji signed-off a new defence pact vowing to confront any ‘common danger’ in the region.
The deal is the latest inked by Australia with a Pacific country amid incursion from the Chinese Communist Party.
Insiders say fiscal shortfalls are forcing public institutions to pass rising education costs onto students and families.
His 2016 account of eight months in secret Chinese custody became one early warning that Beijing’s reach extended past Hong Kong’s borders.
Driverless delivery vehicles are spreading across Chinese cities, raising fears of job losses.
