Media bragging about US/Philippine/Japan/New Zealand/France/Canada joint military exercises in South China Sea. In the first video, NTD is an Falun Gong/Epoch Times related organization, mostly propaganda, but sometimes apart from the spin, the military news there is useful. Watch 5 min from where it's cued to start.
This was my escape from the war narrative. Working on it on and off in between chores entirely for entertainment purposes.
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So the saying goes. There is a version of it in the far east as well, described as an insider mechanism of political power in China in the video I'll link to below. General Zhang Youxia,张有侠 recently purged from the PLA Central Military Commission, is the key figure. He was no 2 in the PLA power structure only after Xi himself. A staff General on the commission Liu Zhenli was also purged, leaving Xi alone at the top after previous removals of other generals on the commission.
I've been listening to this OST sound track below, which frankly isn't all that extensive, only 2 songs and 2 instrumentals so far(?) as I can tell. I started watching the (apparently) new Chinese drama on youtube, Swords into Plowshares, after hearing the songs, just to try studying the subs. The sound track has an obvious patriotic theme, but also an emphasis on peace. (another political interpretation below)
I can't recall how this song came to my attention. I think youtube coughed it up because I was looking for and listening to Chinese music videos for something pleasant to the ear, with lyrics I might like. This song seemed to fit with a caution against the use of violence to solve problems. Then I started looking at the drama series itself and became more and more perplexed trying to understand what I was watching and listening to.
This is a major story in East Asia.
Sanae Takaichi Declares Herself an Anti-China Storm Trooper to Defend the U.S.? 미국을 방어하는 반중(反中) 돌격대” 일본의 다카이치 총리.https://t.co/99FDkGdTsp
— KoreaUpdate (@SimoneChun) November 15, 2025
Looking forward to seeing @GordonGChang and his MAGA boys cry into their beer about the latest indictment of their fascist hero. "Yoon, ex-military officials indicted for allegedly provoking North to justify martial law." https://t.co/s8HO4prgRa
"Takaichi... said she would seek to deepen cooperation with South Korea"
While visiting Yasukuni and claiming "comfort women" were volunteers and that no Korean laborers were forced? Good luck with that. https://t.co/9P2nyHPGuI
Breaking: South Korea's National Assembly Speaker Woo Won-shik exchanged greetings with Kim Jong Un this morning before China's military parade, according to his office, as per Yonhap News. A rare moment of direct South-North contact in years. https://t.co/440HXkSjvc
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This from China Daily
Investment in social welfare to facilitate growth
Investment in public welfare is in line with the Government Work Report's emphasis
that "more funds and resources will be used to serve the people and meet their needs".
https://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202503/27/WS67e4a4f4a3101d4e4dc2b168....
