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Started by Marie Monday, Nov 23, 2023, 05:19 PM

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QuoteTaiwan Talks
Jan 22, 2025

On the final day of 2024, Chinese President Xi Jinping emphasized the concept of "one family across the Taiwan Strait" and "reunification of the motherland" in his New Year's address. The Wall Street Journal reported that this is Xi's attempt to solidify domestic confidence in economic transformation and resistance to foreign pressure. The next day, Taiwan President Lai Ching-te proposed in his New Year's speech the concept of "Taiwan is brave", highlighting Taiwan's resilience and glory. What new chapter will cross-strait relations will open in 2025? With President Trump taking office, what are the key focal points of U.S.-China-Taiwan interactions?

QuoteChapters
00:00:00 – Cross-Strait Future: Xi vs. Lai's Vision
00:01:02 – Xi Stands Firm on Unification Goals
00:01:22 – Xi's Remarks: A Signal to the World
00:04:39 – Lai Stands Firm on Defense Commitment
00:05:15 – Is Lai Sending a Message to the U.S.?
00:09:15 – Lai's Defense Moves: A U.S. Connection?
00:12:03 – How Taiwan Can Strengthen Its Defense?
00:14:25 – Can Lai and Xi Open a Dialogue?
00:17:20 – Uncertainty in China's Reply to Trump
00:17:50 – Will Trump's Strategy with Xi Pay Off?
00:23:33 – Xi's Plan for U.S.-China Relations



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QuotePreston Stewart
Jan 23, 2025
QuoteRussians advances slowly as Trump threatens Putin to end the war

Today we're looking at a general update around the ongoing war in Ukraine from battlefield changes to recent statements by Trump to news of a filtration camp in Mariupol.  All sources used in the video are linked below. 

01:00 Map update
06:59 Trump threatens Putin
10:15 US reevaluates foreign aid
13:42 Western troops to Ukraine?
18:01 Filtration camps
26:54 Girkin meltdown


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#493 Jan 28, 2025, 12:42 AM

The Cipher Brief 
Jan 27, 2025

QuotePaula Doyle served as Assistant Deputy Director for Operations at CIA, where she oversaw worldwide HUMINT operations and activities that required the use of air, land, maritime, space-based and cyber technologies. She was the Deputy National Counterintelligence Executive from 2012-2014, where she oversaw the official US Damage Assessment resulting from Private Manning's 2010 unauthorized disclosures to Wikileaks and led the IC's extensive review of Edward Snowden's unauthorized disclosures and defection to Russia. She led three CIA stations in Europe, the Levant, and Asia.


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