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  1. *#China deploys stealth destroyers... *

    (2/n)

    ...key #Energy routes..."

    "#China’s decision to send high end surface combatants toward #Iranian
    ...waters underscores the #PLA #Navy’s expanding operational reach well beyond the #WesternPacific."

    "Trilateral naval drills near a strategic chokepoint

    The upcoming exercise is expected to follow previous iterations of the #SecurityBelt #maritime drills held by #China, #Iran, and #Russia in 2019, 2022, 2023, and 2024...

    2)
    internationaldefenceanalysis.c

  2. The #democratic island nation of just 17,000 people hosts American-controlled airstrips & soon-to-be-completed radar installations that the #USmilitary describes as “critical” to monitoring vast swathes of water & airspace. It is also a key piece of the Second Island Chain, a string of strategically located islets that #America is fortifying in an effort to deny #China access to the #WesternPacific.

    #geopolitics #Palau #UnitedStates #AsiaPacific

  3. @Milkman76 @skua

    Like other good places - mostly here in the #WesternPacific - the #ExcessDeaths for #China are actually negative, i.e. FEWER people than usual died in 2020 and 2021 - i'll see if i can find that #WHO report, it might be the one @Milkman76 already linked?

    BUT currently … Chinese "state media" pretty much explicitly announced an intention to under report deaths … I'll see if i can find the quote…

    cc @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] other mes

  4. #Australia isn't seeing increased #cardiovascular deaths?

    HOW?

    Is the vaccine doing a good job of protecting against these?

    are we somehow managing to count them properly as covid?

    is it that we caught it more recently than the world outside the #WesternPacific region?

    is omicron actually less prone to this than other variants?

    or is "not statistically significant" just doing a lot of work here?

    @[email protected] @TashTaylor @CdrHBiscuitIII

    youtu.be/b0PBZz3W-J4

  5. #introduction copied from my other profile @[email protected] 🔠 I'm also @[email protected] 🦣

    🧬 Side tracked #biologist

    🌏 from the #WesternPacific region

    #Monolingual 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #English speaker, curious about more #Languages than I will ever learn 🇪🇺 #German 🇩🇪 #RussianLanguage :flag_wbw: #Hindi 🇮🇳 #Urdu 🇵🇰 #Farsi 🌙 #Arabic 🇲🇹 #Maltese 🇮🇲 #Manx 🇵🇬 #TokPisin

    🔠 I can read familiar names in multiple scripts but I am only fluent in English & German is the only other language know well enough to be useful.

    🤖 i click "translate" a lot

  6. @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @Gargron @pruvisto

    #Geolocation of who? (or what)

    I also have a (maybe slightly snobbish?) inclination to try to avoid the #USA (as much as this is possible for an #English speaker on the internet) and seek out people from my own side of the planet.

    So if you were looking at % user base that was also a bit disappointing, but it seems to not be that? But I'm quite confused now.

    #SouthernHemisphere #EasternHemisphere #WesternPacific