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    Religions Taiwan (2020):

    35.1% Buddhism
    33.0% Taoism
    26.7% No religion
    3.9% Christianity
    1.3% Others

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    The continual presence of the top tier B-2 bombers in northern Australia in recent months is a symbolic deterrent. To China a clear statement to " back off " from thoughts of invading Australia.

    I don't think China would be stupid enough to threaten Australia or our Queensland RAAF airbase Amberley with a B-2 on the tarmac (so is the B-2 actually a mobile US embassy), because in doing so it would provoke a reaction from the US military.


    Fifth B-2 to touch down in Australia

    A fifth US Air Force B-2 bomber has flown to Base Amberley to train with RAAF F-35s amid tension between China and Taiwan.

    The UFO-like Spirit can carry nuclear weapons and is thought to be the most expensive aircraft ever made, valued at around $2 billion each.

    It comes at the same time China conducted military drills around Taiwan in retaliation to a visit to the island by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

    On 28 July, a fifth B-2, “Spirit of Florida”, flew into the Queensland base to replace “Spirit of Alaska”, which departed on 24 July.

    It likely amounts to the biggest ever deployment of the US’ most important military jet to Australia, with the country’s active fleet only numbering 20.

    In total, six B-2s have visited Base Amberley this year, with one aircraft earlier touching down in March before the current deployment that began in July.

    The fleet is visiting from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri as part of an initiative to improve interoperability between the US Air Force and the RAAF’s F-35s. They have been joined by “several” KC-135 Stratotanker refuelling aircraft.


    The aircraft to arrive are:

    82-1068 “Spirit of New York” as RAVE11
    82-1070 “Spirit of Ohio” as RAVE12
    82-1067 “Spirit of Arizona” as RAVE21
    90-0040 “Spirit of Alaska” as RAVE22
    92-0700 “Spirit of Florida” as LATER 11
    (82-1071 “Spirit of Mississippi” arrived and departed on 23 March).

    “This deployment of the B-2 to Australia demonstrates and enhances the readiness and lethality of our long-range penetrating strike force,” Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Kousgaard, commander of the 393rd Expeditionary Bomb Squadron, said earlier.

    “We look forward to training and enhancing our interoperability with our RAAF teammates, as well as partners and allies across the Indo-Pacific as we meet PACAF objectives.”


    The B-2, better known as the stealth bomber, is a multi-role aircraft capable of delivering both conventional and nuclear munitions. It has a crew of two pilots: one in the left seat and a mission commander in the right.

    It was first publicly displayed in 1988, when it was rolled out of its hangar at Air Force Plant 42 in California, before its maiden flight the next year.

    Its new deployment in Australia comes at the same time as with continuing tension in the region.

    Last week, a visit to Taiwan by US Speaker Pelosi led to China testing ballistic missiles over Taipei for the first time.

    Then on Monday, China announced new military drills around Taiwan, including joint exercises focusing on anti-submarine and sea assault operations.

    Taiwan’s Defence Ministry later claimed to have detected 39 Chinese air force planes and 13 navy ships around the Taiwan Strait.

    Link: https://www.defenceconnect.com.au/st...n-in-australia



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    Default Re: Flirting with War (China vs Taiwan, and whatever might ensue)

    Here we go again, at some stage that Women (Puppet PM) will have some involuntary bowl movements, China will get enough of it. Russia needs to hurry up with taking Dnipro area.


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    • Poking China: Biden Asks Congress to Approve $1.1 Billion in Weapons for Taiwan:

    • When profiteering of wars were to be made illegal how would the world be like?
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    Taiwan shooting at Chinese Drones (Warning Shots).


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    From warning shots at drones to shooting down a drone. Taiwan really drank the cool aid concerning the Us, ffs.


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    Default Re: Flirting with War (China vs Taiwan, and whatever might ensue)

    • Elon Musk Warns Everyone Of WW3 As China Advances To Taiwan!:
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    • Washington Neocons To Send Taiwan Billions In Weapons:

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    • Broken Biden Brain Sparks WW3 Fear After Vowing AGAIN The US Military Will Defend Taiwan From China:

    Broken Biden Brain Sparks WW3 Fear After Vowing AGAIN The US Military Will Defend Taiwan From China. On Several occasions the White house has denied the president's policies and statements so much so that even liberal media outlets point it out. Biden is either accidentally exposing secret US policy on military intervention or the White house has gone rogue and is defying his stated policy positions. At a certain point between Trump and Biden the executive branch in various forms has denied, pied, or rejected the president's policies signifying that the president has lost control of the branch of government. While it may be due to fear that the presidents were both incapable mentally it is no grounds for the seizure of power. It seems to be a slow motion coup stripping power away from the duly elected president.
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    • This Chinese Drone does Something the US doesn't:


    China has emerged as a world leading producer of combat drones currently rivalled on by the United States, and has widely exported platforms such as the Wing Loong and Wing Loong II across the world. These have included exports to established American defence clients which have been unable to acquire their U.S. manufactured analogues such as the Predator and Reaper. A further high end Chinese attack platform, the Sharp Sword, will integrate advanced stealth capabilities and likely represent the most capable strike drones on export markets and one of the heaviest. A number of heavier and more sophisticated platforms, however, have been developed exclusively for domestic use by the People’s Liberation Army. These have included platforms such as the Dark Sword, unveiled in June 2018 and speculated to be intended as a sixth generation unmanned fighter due to its considerable size and unique orientation towards air to air combat. Another example was the Star Shadow, a twin engine heavyweight stealthy attack drone with a flying wing design first unveiled at the Singapore Airshow in February 2018 and capable of functioning as a light medium range bomber. A third design for a high end Chinese drone, one reportedly conceptualised specifically to neutralise the United States military’s growing number stealth aircraft such as the F-35 which are deploying to Northeast Asia in fast growing numbers, is the Divine Eagle.

    Wing Loong II Combat Drone

    Under development in 2012, the Divine Eagle was designed as a high altitude long endurance unmanned aircraft intended specifically to seek and destroy enemy stealth platforms. The drone was developed by the Shenyang Aircraft Design Institute, and reportedly has by far the largest wingspan for any combat drone in the world - though its exact size remains uncertain. The design leverages Chinese strengths in active electronically scanned array radar technologies, deploying several of these including Synthetic Aperture (SAR), Airborne Moving Target Indicator (SMTI) and Ground Moving Target Indicator (GMTI) radar types. X/UHF band radars including the JY-26, dubbed ‘F-22 killer,’ are also deployed due to their unique ability to track and lock onto stealth aircraft even at extreme ranges. The size of the Divine Eagle drone allows it to deploy heavier radars than lighter fighter aircraft, making it a potentially ideal platform for detecting stealth fighters and bombers with specialised radar cross section reducing airframes at extreme ranges.



    • Chinese People's Liberation Army Divine Eagle 'Stealth Hunter' Drone

    The Divine Eagle’s high altitude provides it with a considerably longer detection range than ground based radars due to the limitations of the earth’s curvature - much like the heavy radars deployed from AEW and AWACS platforms. A drone capable of detecting stealth aircraft from the air at extreme ranges, represents a highly prized assets for the PLA given the heavy reliance of U.S. strategies for war in the Pacific such as Air Sea Battle on using radar evading aircraft to penetrate Chinese airspace. In particular, F-35 stealth fighters deployed in fast growing numbers both to regional airbases by the U.S. Air Force and from carriers by the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, could potentially see the primarily facilitator of their survivability over older aircraft - radar evading capabilities - seriously undermined by the new drone. The F-35 is set to form the backbone of the American light-medium weight multirole fighter fleet to replace the F-16, F-18C/D and Harrier II, and is also intended to replace the Japanese Air Force’s F-15J and F-4EJ air superiority fighters with over 100 aircraft planned. As an ‘F-35 killer,’ the Divine Eagle represents a considerable asset for the PLA - with the U.S. set to invest well over a trillion dollars in the fighter program and Japan planning an investment of several billion more.



    • J-20 Fighters with PL-10 and PL-15 Air to Air Missiles

    A second combat jet with advanced stealth capabilities which is set to be directed heavy against the PLA is the upcoming B-21 ‘Raider’ heavy bomber - of which the U.S. Air Force reportedly intends to acquire over 100 making it the most numerous bomber in the world. Undermining the bomber’s stealth capabilities as a ‘B-21 killer’ could also be a valuable mission for the Divine Eagle - and the targeting information it is likely to provide the advanced fighters and air defence systems operating at lower altitudes could well be key to allowing these assets to dominate the battlefield against hostile stealth platforms. It has also been speculated that the Divine Eagle could integrate similar systems to Chinese AWACS aircraft such as the KJ-2000 - allowing it to use its powerful sensors to guide long range missiles from fighter aircraft to their targets with greater precision. Paired with growing numbers of long range PL-15, PL-12D and PL-21 air to air missiles - the drone’s deployment could thus see a major shift in the balance of power in the air.

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    • What's up with these people ?
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    Another regional development that is part of all the latest hype about hypersonic weaponry being the latest game changer in any battle field, is the collaboration between the USA & Australia in building a hypersonic missile that will be ready by 2027.

    The World’s First Hypersonic Cruise Missile Will Fly 20 Times Faster Than the Competition

    Popular Mechanics
    29 September 2021

    The Pentagon has plenty of cruise missiles in its arsenal, from the long-serving Tomahawk to the new JASSM-ER. But a new missile set to enter service in 2027 is radically different: the new Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile (HACM) will fly up to 20 times faster, giving adversaries little time to escape its wrath. HACM will be the first mass-produced weapon to use air-breathing scramjet engines.

    Raytheon and Northrop Grumman won a contract worth $985 million to develop the world’s first hypersonic cruise missile. HACM, developed for the United States and Australia, is an air-launched hypersonic cruise missile designed to quickly strike targets on the ground. Under the terms of the contract, the Pentagon should see the first operational missiles in 2027.

    In 2020, the U.S. and Australia jointly began the Southern Cross Integrated Flight Research Experiment partnership, or SCIFiRE. Named after the constellation that appears on Australia’s national flag, SCIFiRE was meant to develop an air-breathing hypersonic weapon system designed to be carried on both U.S. and Australian aircraft, including the F/A-18 Super Hornet, F-35A Joint Strike Fighter, P-8A Poseidon aircraft, and others. The contract will mature the Raytheon SCIFiRE prototype into an actual weapon system.


    HACM is a tactical weapon designed to be used on day one of a large-scale conventional conflict. “HACM will provide our commanders with tactical flexibility to employ fighters to hold high-value, time-sensitive targets at risk while maintaining bombers for other strategic targets,” Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown said in an Air Force statement last week.

    Traditional cruise missiles are basically pilotless aircraft. Like many aircraft, turbofan engines power cruise missiles, propelling them at subsonic speeds. Cruise missiles fly low to avoid radar detection, and a slower speed helps them fly lower and hug the ground. Tomahawk cruise missiles, for example, fly at an altitude of between 98 and 164 feet at a speed of 550 miles per hour.

    HACM is a hypersonic weapon, which means it flies at Mach 5 or faster—but we don’t know exactly how much faster it will fly. Most missiles that remain in the atmosphere, like air-to-air missiles, top out at around Mach 3+. SCIFiRE was descended from the earlier HIFiRE program, which tested a scramjet engine at speeds up to Mach 8.

    HACM will be the world’s first operational weapon system to use a scramjet engine. Like turbofan engines, scramjets scoop up oxygen from the surrounding atmosphere to use as fuel. One key difference between the two is that a turbofan engine scoops up oxygen at subsonic speeds, while a scramjet scoops it up at supersonic speeds. More oxygen means more fuel for the scramjet engine, which enables it to propel the missile even faster. According to NASA, scramjet engines should work to at least Mach 15. That translates to 11,509 miles per hour, or fast enough to circle Earth in about two hours.

    Hypersonic weapons are the new hotness in warfare. Most of the avowed nuclear powers have technically had hypersonic weapons for a half-century or more, as the ballistic missiles that carry nuclear warheads travel at hypersonic speeds, impacting their targets at up to 15,000 miles per hour. This new generation of hypersonic weapons is different in that it is non-nuclear in nature—at least so far—and would be used immediately in a conventional war.

    There’s a lot we don’t know about HACM. We don’t know how fast it really flies, or how far it flies. All we know is it is small enough to be carried by a fighter jet and will be ready by 2027. One thing is for sure: HACM is awkward and we need a better name for it.

    Links: https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/techa...9d08dcd90ab03a



    SCIFiRE Hypersonics

    Australia and the United States signed a collaborative agreement to develop and test hypersonic cruise missile prototypes under the Southern Cross Integrated Flight Research Experiment (SCIFiRE).

    The SCIFiRE Program is based on more than 15 years of collaboration between Australia and the United States on science and technology research into hypersonic scramjets, rocket motors, sensors, and advanced manufacturing materials.

    The new weapon will be a Mach 5-class precision strike missile that is propulsion-launched and powered by an air-breathing scramjet engine. It will be capable of being carried by tactical fighter aircraft such as the F/A-18F Super Hornet, EA-18G Growler and F-35A Lightning II, as well as the P-8A Poseidon maritime surveillance aircraft.

    Link: https://www.airforce.gov.au/our-miss...re-hypersonics
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    This could be seen as a pre-emptive act or painting a target on the back of Australia. Either way as in world war 2 Australia will be dragged into conflict and become a major frontline staging point for action against china if war does come.

    At the end of the day it's is up to the globalist if war is beneficial for there plans and profits and it is for the comatose masses to follow the plan. World war 3, could be part of the great reset and financial reset of the fiat currency system in play.


    US Air Force to deploy nuclear-capable B-52 bombers to Australia as tensions with China grow

    ABC News
    31 October 2022

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    " The United States is preparing to deploy up to six nuclear-capable B-52 bombers to northern Australia, a provocative move experts say is aimed squarely at China.

    An investigation by Four Corners can reveal Washington is planning to build dedicated facilities for the giant aircraft at (RAAF Base) Tindal air base, south of Darwin.

    The US has drawn up detailed plans for what it calls a "squadron operations facility" for use during the Northern Territory dry season (NT experiences seasonal monsoons), an adjoining maintenance centre and a parking area for "six B-52s"...

    "It's a great expansion of Australian commitment to the United States' war plan with China," says Richard Tanter, a senior research associate at the Nautilus Institute and a long-time, anti-nuclear activist.

    "It's a sign to the Chinese that we are willing to be the tip of the spear." "

    Pine Gap

    Quote:
    " The joint US and Australian spy base near Alice Springs is undergoing a major upgrade, according to Richard Tanter.

    He's spent months poring over satellite images of Pine Gap and estimates the number of giant antennas has grown by more than a third over the past seven years.

    "This is at a time when the Australian Parliament has been informed of none of this, no statements by ministers no questions by politicians," he says.

    Mr Tanter says Pine Gap's powerful "ears and eyes" are now heavily focused on China.

    "The searching for Chinese missile sites, the searching for Chinese command sites, in a preparatory way, is absolutely on high priority at Pine Gap now," he says. "

    Link: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-...alia/101585380
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    Default Re: Flirting with War (China vs Taiwan, and whatever might ensue)

    This new 30 minute Chris Martenson video could be posted on any of several threads, but it might best belong here.

    As always, what Martenson presents is well-researched, well-referenced and compelling. My provisional personal view is that if China is indeed preparing for war, it'll be taking a strong defensive stance, not an offensive one. (There seems to be no need for China to suddenly invade Taiwan, for instance, now that Taiwan's politics is clearly tipping to a pro-Chinese position.)


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    Quote Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
    This new 30 minute Chris Martenson video could be posted on any of several threads, but it might best belong here.

    As always, what Martenson presents is well-researched, well-referenced and compelling. My provisional personal view is that if China is indeed preparing for war, it'll be taking a strong defensive stance, not an offensive one. (There seems to be no need for China to suddenly invade Taiwan, for instance, now that Taiwan's politics is clearly tipping to a pro-Chinese position.)

    In part 2 of this video Chris goes on to discuss “5th generational warfare” - what it is, how it’s implemented and how it has already been in place for many years, to manipulate public opinion and perceptions. He talks about how some of these methods have become incredibly sophisticated, and he analyses some of the more obvious examples including the public response and “group think” during the COVID situation, and the manipulation of the public’s perceptions of Ukraine vs Russia. Chris details how some social media companies are heavily manipulating the information to advance a specific narrative. None of this should come as a surprise to anyone, but Chris offers a very well-researched and important perspective on some of the tactics being used. I found some of what he was describing to be incredibly disturbing, and I feel people need to be aware of this if they are to have any defence against this type of warfare. Part 2 is unfortunately behind a paywall, but if you are able, I’d encourage you to watch both parts.

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    New from Alexander Mercouris of The Duran, citing a prominent Financial Times article: (20 mins)

    US and Japan prepare for conflict with China


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    New from Alexander Mercouris of The Duran, citing a prominent Financial Times article: (20 mins)

    US and Japan prepare for conflict with China


    This is extremely concerning, especially taking into account the last chapter in Zecharia Sitchin's The End of Days "Armageddon and Prophesies of the Return". He writes:

    "In the 21st century BCE, a war of the Kings of the East against the Kings of the West was followed by a nuclear calamity. Twenty-one centuries later, when BCE changed to AD, Mankind's fears were expressed in a scroll hidden in a cave near the Dead Sea that described a great and final "War of the Sons of Light against the Sons of Darkness". Now again, in the twenty-first century AD, a nuclear threat hangs over the very same historical place. It is enough reason to ask: Will history repeat itself - does history repeat itself, in some mysterious way, every twenty-one centuries?"

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