Anonymous ID: 3835f1 July 6, 2020, 2:29 a.m. No.9872611   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2661 >>2709 >>2802 >>2922 >>2957 >>3124 >>3272

https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/Thousands-of-US-troops-will-shift-to-Asia-Pacific-to-guard-against-China

 

Facing what a Trump administration official recently called "the most significant geopolitical challenge since the end of the Cold War" in the Indo-Pacific theater, the U.S. military will embark on a realignment of its global posture.

 

Several thousand of the troops currently posted in Germany are expected to redeploy to American bases in Guam, Hawaii, Alaska, Japan and Australia.

 

Priorities have changed. During the Cold War, American defense strategists thought it important to maintain a massive land force in Europe to keep the Soviet Union at bay. In the 2000s, the focus was primarily on the Middle East as the U.S. waged its "war on terrorism" in Iraq and Afghanistan.

 

Now the game planning centers on China.

 

To counter the "two great-power competitors" of China and Russia, "U.S. forces must be deployed abroad in a more forward and expeditionary manner than they have been in recent years," wrote Robert O'Brien, President Donald Trump's national security adviser, in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece late last month.

 

Toward this end, the administration will reduce its force permanently stationed in Germany from 34,500 troops to 25,000.

 

The 9,500 who are leaving will be reassigned elsewhere in Europe, redeployed to the Indo-Pacific region, or sent back to bases in the U.S.

 

On the Indo-Pacific, O'Brien wrote: "In that theater, Americans and allies face the most significant geopolitical challenge since the end of the Cold War."

Anonymous ID: 3835f1 July 6, 2020, 2:32 a.m. No.9872627   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2709 >>2802 >>2922 >>2957 >>3124 >>3185 >>3272

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12038999/prince-andrew-cancels-spain-golf-trip-epstein-investigation/

 

PRINCE Andrew has cancelled his annual Spanish golf holiday because he’s scared to go abroad during the Epstein investigation.

 

He stayed at a friend’s Costa del Sol mansion last year

 

But a palace insider said Andrew, 60, has shelved this year’s trip as he is “nervous” of leaving the UK after the US Justice Department made an official request to question him as a witness about Epstein.

 

His anxiety only increased after the arrest this week of friend Ghislaine Maxwell over her alleged roles in Epstein’s sex offences.

 

She’s said to have introduced Andrew to Epstein victim Virginia Roberts, who claims she slept with the royal at 17.

 

The duke denies the allegations and his lawyers say they have offered to provide a witness statement to the DOJ. But media lawyer Mark Stevens claims the request to speak to Andrew may be “a trap” to get him over to the US.

Anonymous ID: 3835f1 July 6, 2020, 2:34 a.m. No.9872634   🗄️.is 🔗kun

https://thehimalayantimes.com/kathmandu/youtuber-arrested-for-raping-two-minor-girls/

 

Arjun Shiwakoti, aged around 30, who runs a Youtube channel ‘Making Nepal’, was arrested from his rented room in Baniyatar a few days ago. He has been accused of raping a 14-yearold girl and molesting her younger sister for around 14 months.

 

The incident came to light after the family of the victims shared the incident on a television show called Janta Janna Chahancha.

 

In the show, the minors alleged that the man, who used to live in the same house as a tenant, raped the elder girl repeatedly when she was alone in her room.

 

Shiwakoti had threatened the girls saying that he would kill them and compel their parents to commit suicide if they said anything to their parents about the rape and molestation. The girls used to call the man ‘uncle’ and their parents used to treat him like their own family member.

Anonymous ID: 3835f1 July 6, 2020, 2:40 a.m. No.9872661   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2668 >>2709 >>2802 >>2876 >>2922 >>2957 >>3124 >>3272

>>9872611

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/chinese-troops-pull-back-2-km-from-site-of-galwan-valley-clashes-says-govt-official/article31999179.ece/amp/

 

In the first signs of a pull back of Chinese troops along the disputed Line of Actual Control (LAC), Chinese troops have “shifted” two kilometres from the site of the June 15 violent clashes at Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh, a senior government official has told The Hindu.

 

“Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) was seen removing tents and structures at Patrolling Point (PP) 14. Some rearward movement of vehicles of PLA seen at general area of Galwan, Hotsprings and Gogra,” a second government source said. Without giving the specific distances moved, the source said the pull back at each location would be confirmed after verification.

 

“Some tents have been removed at Finger 4 area in Pangong Tso,” the second government official cited above said. They had moved back some distance, the official said without elaborating, and the details of how much had to be verified on the ground. Pangong Tso is one of the most contentious areas of the current stand-offs, with the PLA moving about 8 km inside up to Finger 4. India’s claim is till Finger 8 as per the alignment of the LAC.

Anonymous ID: 3835f1 July 6, 2020, 2:42 a.m. No.9872668   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>9872661

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/china-says-it-has-border-dispute-with-bhutan-too/story-TlhVkk7TwAS97DiASzBSBK.html

 

China on Saturday officially stated for the first time it has a boundary dispute with Bhutan in the eastern sector, a development with significant implications for India as the region borders Arunachal Pradesh, which is also claimed by Beijing.

 

The Chinese foreign ministry, in a statement issued to Hindustan Times, said the China-Bhutan boundary has never been delimited and there “have been disputes over the eastern, central and western sections for a long time”. The statement in Mandarin further said “a third party should not point fingers” in the China-Bhutan border issue – an apparent reference to India.

 

People familiar with developments in Thimphu said on condition of anonymity that the eastern section has never figured in the border talks. “The two sides had said things had been narrowed down to the central and western sections and there was even talk of a package deal to settle the issue. If the Chinese position on the eastern section was legitimate, it should have been brought up earlier,” said one of the people cited above.

 

An expert from Bhutan who has tracked the talks added: “This is an entirely new claim. There are signed minutes of the meetings from both sides narrowing the disputes to only the western and central sections.”

Anonymous ID: 3835f1 July 6, 2020, 2:51 a.m. No.9872698   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2709 >>2802 >>2922 >>2957 >>3124 >>3272

https://thehimalayantimes.com/world/australia-closes-state-border-for-first-time-in-100-years-to-halt-coronavirus/

 

Australian officials are closing the border between Australia’s two most populous states from Tuesday for an indefinite period as they scramble to contain an outbreak of the coronavirus in the city of Melbourne.

 

The decision announced on Monday marks the first time the border between Victoria and New South Wales has been shut in 100 years. Officials last blocked movement between the two states in 1919 during the Spanish flu pandemic.

Anonymous ID: 3835f1 July 6, 2020, 3:32 a.m. No.9872822   🗄️.is 🔗kun

https://www.wionews.com/south-asia/pakistans-health-minister-zafar-mirza-contracts-coronavirus-311062

 

pecial adviser to the Pakistan Prime Minister on Health Zafar Mirza said on Monday that he has tested positive for the coronavirus, Geo News reported.

 

Mirza made the announcement on Twitter, where he said that upon medical advice, he is self-isolating at home and taking all the precautions.

Anonymous ID: 3835f1 July 6, 2020, 3:52 a.m. No.9872876   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>9872661

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-06-27/in-chinas-universities-targeted-attacks-on-intellectuals-raise-memories-of-the-cultural-revolution

 

Spied on. Fired. Publicly shamed. China’s crackdown on professors reminds many of Mao era

 

Sun is among a growing number of university professors who have been targeted and punished for “improper speech” in recent years, part of a Chinese Communist Party drive to tighten ideological control.

 

Under Xi Jinping’s leadership, the party banned discussion in 2013 of “Western concepts” such as universal values, a free press, civil society and the party’s historical errors. In 2018, teachers from kindergarten through university were ordered to adhere to “Xi Jinping thought” and defend the party.

 

Those guidelines have hardened during a nationalist surge around the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to public shaming of intellectuals that remind many of the Mao Zedong era.

 

Professors have been betrayed by their own students or attacked online, then formally punished: In February, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences fired Zhou Peiyi, a visiting lecturer from Hong Kong, after she criticized China’s coronavirus response on social media.

 

Last week, Hubei University fired literature professor Liang Yanping and revoked her party membership for publishing “incorrect speech” on social media related to Japan and Hong Kong. At least two other professors in Hainan and Harbin are under investigation for similar reasons.

 

Liang had been harangued online for supporting Wuhan novelist Fang Fang, whose coronavirus lockdown diary — at first embraced as an honest depiction of people’s suffering — became a target of nationalist anger once it was published in English.

 

Critics accuse Fang Fang of “handing a knife” to Western countries to smear China. They have sent her death threats and condemned her supporters, digging through their old social media posts to find anything that deviates from the party line.

Anonymous ID: 3835f1 July 6, 2020, 4:18 a.m. No.9872946   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2957 >>3124 >>3272

this seems important

 

https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/security/2020/07/nenoksa-village-gets-evacuation-order-ahead-missile-launch

 

Nenoksa village gets evacuation advise ahead of missile launch

 

Villagers are asked to meet at 5 am on July 7th to board busses bringing them in safe distance for the Russian navy’s test site on the coast of the White Sea in northern Russia. A warning to ships is issued for a large area in the White Sea from Nenoksa towards Cap Kanin.

 

No information is provided about what kind of test will be carried out that poses such danger to the locals two kilometers away.

 

On August 8 last year, though, an explosion happened on a military barge off the coast from Nenoksa, killing five and injuring others. The explosion was followed by an increase in radioactivity first measured in Severodvinsk. The victims, all employees of a special reactor-development department of Rosatom were rushed to hospital in ambulances and a helicopter which crew was wearing radiation protection suits.