The U.S. Air Force has deployed two B-52H Stratofortress nuclear capable bombers for operations alongside Japan Air Self-Defense Force fighters, with the aircraft staging a joint show of force on December 11.
Japanese government sources Tokyo described the show of force as a signal of alliance cohesion, while U.S. defense officials familiar with regional operations have confirmed the choice to deploy the B-52 was specifically intended to demonstrate combined long-range strike readiness.
B-52H Bomber with Japanese F-15J Fighter Escort
This follows rising tensions between Tokyo and Beijing, after Japan’s new prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, threatened to intervene militarily in the ongoing conflict between the People’s Republic of China on the Chinese mainland, and the Republic of China based on Taiwan, which have for decades remained in a state of civil war.
China responded to the Japanese prime minister’s threat by deploying the aircraft carrier Liaoning to conduct exercises near Japanese waters, with J-15B fighters operating from the carrier on December 6 locking onto two Japanese F-15J fighters and demonstrating the significant superiority of their sensors.
Japan responded by deploying F-2 fighters armed with anti-ship missiles to simulate strikes on the Chinese carrier group.
The rapid modernisation of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army has left Japan in a significantly weakened position, with the F-15J fighters that form the backbone of the fleet being long since obsolete, while even the newer F-2s are over a quarter century old and lack sufficiently long range weaponry.
…According to a letter from experts in this field to the Lancet, studies of other wars – most of them far less destructive than Israel’s on the tiny enclave – indicate that between three and 15 times more people are killed by indirect, rather than direct, methods of warfare.
The authors conservatively estimate an indirect death toll four times greater than the direct death toll. That would mean, at a minimum, 350,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza through Israel’s actions.
The reality is likely to be even worse. That is without even mentioning the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who have been left with horrific injuries and psychological trauma.
Israel’s war planners know exactly how this direct-to-indirect ratio works. Which is why they chose to destroy nearly every home in Gaza, to bomb the power, sanitation and water facilities, to level the hospitals, and to block aid month after month.
They knew this would be the way Israel could carry out a genocide while offering its allies – western governments and its army of lobbyists – a “get out of jail card” for their active complicity.
Donald Trump’s so-called “ceasefire” is just another layer of deception in this endless game of smoke and mirrors. The UN’s child protection agency, Unicef, reports that less than a quarter of aid trucks are getting into Gaza, past Israel’s continuing starvation blockade, despite Israeli commitments agreed as part of the “ceasefire”. Apparently, this doesn’t register as a gross ceasefire violation. It goes unnoticed.
Unicef reports further that in October alone, at the start of the “ceasefire”, nearly 18,000 new mothers and babies had to be hospitalised in Gaza from acute malnutrition.
The genocide isn’t over. Israel may have slowed the rate of direct killings it is committing by bombing Gaza, but the indirect killings continue unabated. And so does the Israeli-engineered “debate” in the West, one designed to obscure and excuse the mass murder of Gaza’s population.
China Vanke Co., the last big survivor of the country’s yearslong property crunch, sent investors an innocuous-looking announcement about a $3.1 billion loan agreement with a state-owned shareholder. But the Nov. 2 statement contained a twist: Shenzhen Metro Group Co., which had given unwavering support to the developer for nearly two years, now set a cap on any further financing. It also demanded that Vanke stump up collateral for its loans — including for the $2.8 billion already drawn down.
The move, which sent a signal that state officials were finally losing patience with Vanke, set off a chain reaction that ultimately pushed the company to ask for more time to pay back some of its debt. Its dollar bonds have lost more than two-thirds of their value, tumbling to as low as 20 cents on the dollar. State-owned banks have scrambled to limit their exposure. Regulators, unwilling to rescue the company, have started making plans to contain the fallout, according to people familiar with the matter.
Bankers and fund managers are now rushing to weigh the damage of what could become one of the biggest corporate restructurings in China’s history, involving over $50 billion of outstanding debt — including more than $7 billion held by lenders and bond investors overseas. They warn that Vanke’s worsening problems will send ripples throughout China’s economy and its financial system, threatening losses for banks and ramping up pressure on the long-struggling property sector.
The 2026 National Defense Authorization Act passed by the U.S. Congress requires that within 180 days of its effective date, the Director of National Intelligence must publish an open report online, comprehensively exposing the financial status of the CCP General Secretary, Politburo Standing Committee members, Politburo members, and their immediate relatives.
The content will include:
• Domestic and foreign real estate
• Overseas bank accounts, investments, and business interests
• High-value personal assets
• Asset chains hidden through proxies, shell companies, and business partners
• Non-public information held by intelligence agencies (to be submitted to Congress as a classified annex)
The bill explicitly states: The scope of relatives is extremely broad, covering spouses, parents, children, siblings, in-laws, grandparents to grandchildren.
This will be the first time the United States systematically and comprehensively publicly discloses the wealth of the CCP’s top leadership and their families.
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