🇨🇳🇹🇼 China stages mock missile strikes on Taiwan

China conducted mock missile strikes and dispatched bombers carrying live missiles on Friday in its two-day Taiwan drills in exercises Beijing has said were launched to punish Taiwan's new president, Lai Ching-te.

The bombers set up several attack formations in waters east of Taiwan, carrying out mock attacks in co-ordination with naval vessels as China tested its ability to "seize power" and control key areas of Taiwan.

A senior Taiwan security official said that several Chinese bombers conducted mock attacks on foreign vessels near the eastern end of the Bashi Channel, which separates Taiwan from the Philippines, practicing how to seize "total control" of areas west of the first island chain.

The Chinese theatre command showed an animated video of missiles being launched at Taiwan from the ground, air and sea, which then slam into the cities of Taipei, Kaohsiung and Hualien in balls of flame.

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CREW MEMBER TESTIMONY ABOUT THE IRANIAN PRESIDENT'S HELICOPTER CRASH

✍️Written by Hikaru Kitabayashi✍️

The helicopter convoy carrying the presumably assassinated president of Iran and others accompanying him consisted of three vehicles. The president's vehicle was the command helicopter. It had one helicopter flying in front and one in back and its own pilot was commander in chief. The president's helicopter was a Bell 212 whose maintenance was the responsibility of a special office of the Iranian military. Significantly, there had been no previous known accident among military Bell 212 helicopters.

According to the president's chief of staff who was flying in the third helicopter, they were given permission to fly at around 17:30 JST (Japan Standard Time) and, during the flight, the weather had been good. At around 18:00 JST, prior to reaching the Sungun copper mine, although they noticed no fog on the ground, they did see a small compact cloudy mass in front of them at the same height as the helicopter convoy's flight path. The pilot of the president's helicopter then told the other pilots to ascend above the clouds. The other pilots followed orders. The ascension was not difficult and those in the other helicopters didn’t feel any turbulence. After ascending, there were no other clouds. They advanced for about 30 seconds, when the third helicopter realized the main helicopter with the president was missing.

The remaining helicopters reached the copper mine, where there were no more clouds. They then made a U-turn to seek out the missing helicopter. They assumed there had been an emergency landing, because there was no longer any radio contact. By then, it was about 90 seconds after the helicopter convoy commander ordered them to ascend above the clouds. They circled the area a couple of times, but the area within the cloud patch was invisible to them and too risky to enter. They failed several times to make any radio contact and had no choice but to make a landing after a further 30 seconds or so at the Sungun copper mine in order to initiate an investigation. It should be noted that, during the flight, the crews of the other helicopters had continuous cell phone contact with the passengers of the president's helicopter. From the time they noticed the disappearance of the president's helicopter, though they tried calling all of these passengers, they had no luck.

After several times calling the cellphone of the captain accompanying the president, someone picked the phone. It was a cleric who had been on the president's helicopter. He said he wasn't feeling well, that he didn't know what happened, and that he didn't know where he was. All he could tell them was that he was surrounded by trees. He said he was alone and could give no information about the others.

As the copper mine had good facilities and ambulances, a search team was formed and a search started. Because of extremely adverse weather conditions at the presumed crash site, the complex geography, and the mountainous terrain of the region, as well as the presence of advanced Iranian drones equipped with SAR radar on missions in the northern Indian Ocean far from the helicopter crash site, rescue teams had to begin search operations by land.

There remains, however, a time lapse issue. An image capture by an amg-news.com article of an "Israel War Room" posting on X shows an emoji of a helicopter posted at 20:58 JST, which, considering the organization doing the posting, would indicate a knowledge of the crash. Reuters later came out with an article that claimed the said emoji was posted at 21:58 but did not provide a screenshot. They also said Teheran Times posted the news at 21:44 JST and that Reuters, itself, did so at 21:42 JST. The amg-news.com screenshot, though, provides more convincing evidence that this American Eastern Standard Time Zionist organization may have had knowledge of the event approximately 40 minutes before the Iranian news media did.

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On why the crash of the helicopter with Iranian president Raisi on board was likely a sabotage but it won't be possible to prove it:
1_ the president, the foreign minister, the local imam, the local governor and the head of the security were all on board. This is an incredibly strange circumstance, not even in extremely peaceful states with no foreign policy like Comore islands or Papua they let stay all these high ranking officials in the same plane, so why did this happen? Hard to say what led to this decision, probably we'll never know, but for sure it's impossible to say for security reasons because you normally do the opposite, and negligence is an absurd excuse
2_ live satellite images on weather in the area of the crash disappeared 2 hours before it and did not reappear till more than 1 hour after it, this makes you think someone tried to hide that the weather was not good enough to allow the flight. Was it just a glitch as someone said? Exactly at that time? Would be a really strange coincidence. What if Raisi was not informed about the harsh weather conditions due to lack of updated informations?
3_ analyzing the only few pictures from the accident that have been released it looks like the helicopter crashed at full speed given the level of destruction, as if the pilot didn't even try to carry out an emergency landing. The pilot of the presidential helicopter is generally, everywhere in the world, one of the most experienced in the country. Some say it was cause of the fog as the pilot did not realize he was so close to the ground, but there are all instruments on board telling you the altitude, and of course the helicopter has anti-fog bright lights just like cars but a lot better. Fog is a bad bitch but all of this makes you think there was also a malfunction if indeed it was an accident, or a sabotage if the malfunction for example was caused by a mini detonation in the cabin or instruments were partially disabled before the flight, this difficult situation would have made it impossible for the pilot to do anything...
4_ the presidential helicopter is normally the most accurately checked on a daily basis in every country, people saying it was a old rusty model, as if the Iranian president was risking his life every time he took it, have no clue, they think as if that was the helicopter transporting a plumber to repair a clogged WC.
5_ since the day of the Iranian retaliation to the Israeli bombing of the Iranian embassy in Damascus it was clear that Raisi had a big target painted on his head, as that moment was definitely a big breakthrough event that heavily undermined Israeli impunity in the region and Western exceptionalism as a whole, even more than the Russian SMO as NATO can still say the Ukraine is not a member of the organization to justify the defeat, but Israel instead is a long term ally.
In conclusion everyone will say it was an accident because it's convenient to say it and there will never be a conclusive evidence to say otherwise but the strange circumstances point also to some form of sabotage with at least an equal 50-50% probability for the two scenarios.
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🇮🇱⚔🇵🇸Israel-Gaza Conflict: May 24-25 (Recap)

1️⃣ Judges at the International Court of Justice have ordered Israel to halt its attack on the southern Gaza city of Rafah, citing “immense risk” to the Palestinian population.

2️⃣ Israel has called the World Court’s order “outrageous, morally repugnant, and disgusting” and promises to continue the assault.

3️⃣ The UN Security Council has adopted a Swiss-sponsored resolution resolution calling for the protection of humanitarian workers and UN personnel in conflicts.

4️⃣ Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has agreed with his US counterpart Joe Biden to allow UN aid through the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossing into Gaza.

5️⃣ The European Union is studying whether it could play a role monitoring the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt after Israel’s war with Hamas ends.

6️⃣ The UN’s emergency aid chief says Israel’s war on Gaza has been “a tragedy beyond words”, and it must “end this nightmare”.

7️⃣ Israeli tanks and troops have advanced into Rafah’s southeast and are moving towards the city’s densely populated western district.

At least 35,857 people including more than 15,000 children, have been killed and over 80,293 injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The death toll from the October 7 attack in Israel stands at 1,139.

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