Day: June 21, 2025

Israel and Iran have entered their ninth day of conflict as Tehran launched a wave of missiles into Israel on Saturday morning.

Pro-Russian Telegram videos and Ukrainian intelligence reports suggest that China has armed Russia with a laser gun to shoot down drones. It’s called the “Silent Hunter” system, and it’s a pretty sophisticated piece of weaponry.Operation Honey Pot: Paste this emoji 🍯 in your comment below.

A former U.S. Army sergeant could face up to 10 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to offering key U.S. defense secrets to communist China.Chinese signal jammers are flooding the United States, with seizures soaring by more than eightfold since 2021. Officials warn these devices pose serious threats to public safety and could even disrupt military operations.Florida is cracking down on two firms over Chinese-made medical devices. Officials warn patient data could be funneled overseas through hidden backdoors.Over 1,200 mystery seeds from China are intercepted in Texas. We hear from the state’s agriculture commissioner on the potential risks and why planting them could be dangerous.Nearly half of China’s oil imports are passing through the Strait of Hormuz, and the escalating Israel-Iran conflict is putting this vital lifeline for the Chinese Communist Party at risk. We break down what’s at stake.00:00 Intro01:15 Ex-US Soldier Admits Attempted Espionage for China03:06 Chinese Signal Jammer Seizures Up 830% Since 202104:40 Florida Subpoenas Medical Firms Over China-Made Devices05:32 Texas AG Commissioner Warns of Crop-Infecting Fungus09:56 Rollback of Green Energy Credits Divides GOP12:26 CCP Threatened by Iran-Israel Conflict15:09 South China Floods Spark Questions Over Dam Release17:33 Sourcing Rare Earth Magnets for US Fighter Jets

Israel strikes Iranian nuclear research facility Saturday and says they are preparing for the possibility that the war could turn into a lengthy campaign.

The funeral of Chinese General Xu Qiliang not only laid to rest a vice chairman of the country’s Central Military Command (CMC) who helped consolidate Xi Jinping’s power over the military, it also signaled that another CMC vice chairman had been purged. Among the Politburo member wreaths on display at the ceremony, He Weidong’s was conspicuously absent, nor did He attend in person. He Weidong oversaw China’s military operations around Taiwan as head of the People Liberation Army’s (PLA’s) Eastern Command, and orchestrated the large-scale drills following former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit. He has not been seen in public since the National People’s Congress on March 11. While he is one of more than 70 PLA generals purged since Xi took power, his position as vice chairman marks the most senior purging of a CMC member since China’s Cultural Revolution. Is Xi Jinping simply strengthening the military’s combat readiness, or are there other motives at play? Could the latest purges of those closest to and fast-tracked by Xi suggest the erosion of his power in a factional war, as some CCP scholars say?

China brings 2 surveillance ships and radar to the Persian Gulf approaching Iran. What’s going on?

China’s military activity around Taiwan is raising alarms about a possible invasion, but Beijing has plenty of options for seizing the island without firing a shot.

00:00 Introduction00:10 China on Israel-Iran Conflict03:31 Chinese Economy: Consumption Subsidies 07:16 China’s New Global Currency Order Ambitions

Zhang Youxia was once Xi Jinping’s most trusted man in the military. Their fathers had fought together during the revolution, and the two families were close. Xi even entrusted Zhang with his personal security. But one day, Xi suddenly realized that Zhang had grown too powerful. Their relationship began to sour—and what followed seemed like fate. An old prophecy had predicted that a warrior with a bow would dethrone Xi. During the power struggle, one retired vice chairman of the Central Military Commission (Xu Qiliang) died, and an active-duty one (He Weidong) went missing.

Brig. Gen. Doug Wickert, 412th Test Wing commander, delivered a sobering assessment of China’s growing military capabilities during a recent briefing for local leaders at Antelope Valley College. The production quality is not that great, as it was not meant to be shared in this forum, but I felt the information itself was worth sharing, even with the poor production quality.

At MADEX 2025, LIG Nex1 was showcasing for the first time the K-SAAM II medium range surface-to-air missile (함대공유도탄-II in Korean). The South Korean defense company was also showcasing the in-service K-SAAM (해궁 or Hae-gung) short range SAM and the future CIWS-II currently under development. With all three systems, LIG Nex1 will provide a multi-layered defense solution for surface vessels.