🇨🇳☭ Global Times | Senator reveals '30,000 US troops stationed in Taiwan island,' equal to ‘declaring war on China’ if it's true | 17-08-21
— "A senior US senator, also a member of US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, on his social media revealed that the US has 30,000 soldiers stationed in China's Taiwan island. If the tweet is correct, it is a military invasion and occupation of China's Taiwan and equivalent to the US declaring war on China.

China could immediately activate its Anti-Secession Law to destroy and expel US troops in Taiwan and reunify Taiwan militarily, some experts noted.

Some others believe the news leaked by the US senator cannot be true because 30,000 is not some small amount that the US Army could hide and not being noticed in the island, and the US has nothing to gain by stationing the US Army in the island. Sacrificing its own interests to satisfy Taiwan separatists also does not fit with US foreign policy, just like the US did in Afghanistan. "

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202108/1231686.shtml

🇨🇳☭ Global Times | PLA holds joint live-fire assault drills near Taiwan island in direct response to collusion, provocations by US, secessionists | 17-08-21
— " The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) on Tuesday launched joint live-fire assault drills in multiple locations near the island of Taiwan as a direct response to the recent collusion and provocations made by the US and the Taiwan secessionists.

Experts said the exercises practiced a vital part of the future large-scale amphibious landing operations on the island that will see the PLA seize air superiority and control of the sea, and sent a clear and powerful warning to the US and the Taiwan secessionists on the 39th anniversary of the China-US August 17 Communiqué, in which the US promised to restrict arms sales to Taiwan but repeatedly broke its promise, and also at a time when the US military has lost credibility after its irresponsible, hasty and embarrassing troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.

The PLA Eastern Theater Command on Tuesday dispatched warships, anti-submarine warfare aircraft and fighter jets in surrounding maritime and aerial areas near the southwest and southeast directions of the island of Taiwan for military exercises, including joint live-fire assaults, and also for testing the troops' integrated joint operation capabilities, Senior Colonel Shi Yi, spokesperson of the command, announced on the same day."

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202108/1231745.shtml

🇦🇫🇸🇾 In Syrian Idlib, militants of the terrorist organization Hayat Tahrir al-Sham celebrate the rise to power of the Taliban in Afghanistan.

🇺🇲🇦🇫🏳️ BREAKING — US may continue diplomacy in Afghanistan after Aug 31 if 'safe': State Dept — AFP

Another sign that US could recognise a Taliban-led gov’t on some conditions

🇺🇲🇬🇧 Biden and Johnson agreed to hold a virtual G7 summit next week to discuss approaches to the situation in Afghanistan, the White House

⚡️UK to take up to 20k Afghan refugees over five years after Taliban takeover - new resettlement plan (the Guardian)

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Come on. Do you have anything forbidden? We have an airport to protect here after all.

🇦🇫 Shots were fired again at the Kabul airport. It is reported that people were dispersed in this way in order to expand the perimeter of the cordon.

🇱🇹🇧🇾 The Lithuanian side accused the Belarusian border guards of forcibly expelling migrants to the neighboring side.

Earlier, Lithuania was accused of similar actions in the State Border Service of the Republic of Belarus.

🇦🇫 First video of Northern Alliance resistance forces in Panjshir province of Afghanistan

🇺🇲🇦🇫 The first full-fledged reportage from inside the Kabul airport. CNN and Erin Burnett