Tension
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US increasing its Indo-Pacific presence to discourage “belligerent” China
While the world’s attention is focused on the Russia-Ukraine war, the US is increasing its Indo-Pacific contacts with Australia to discourage a “belligerent” China. The Pacific Air Forces revealed in a press release that a B-2 stealth bomber completed a mission in the region with five different fighter aircraft from the US Air Force and…
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China Building a Whole Village Violating International Borders
China announced in October 2015 that a new village, named Gyalaphug in Tibetan or Jieluobu in Chinese, had been built in the Tibet Autonomous Region’s south (TAR). Wu Yingjie, the TAR Communist Party secretary, moved over two passes, both over 14,000 feet high, on his way to visit the new village in April 2020. There,…