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US Navy Surveillance Plane Made Provocative Flight Over Taiwan Strait, Weeks Before Trump-Xi Summit With the world's attention hyper-focused on fast-paced events in Iran and the effectively shuttered vital oil transit hub, the Hormuz Strait, some significant things were also happening around Taiwan this past week. The US military confirmed that a P-8A Poseidon anti-submarine patrol aircraft transited the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday, a move that predictably drew Beijing's attention. US Navy China said it monitored the US Navy aircraft as it passed through the narrow waterway separating Taiwan from mainland China. "By operating within...

The Politicization Of Everything Authored by David Solway via The Epoch Times, There was a time when politics occupied only a compartment of life. A citizen might vote, follow public affairs, argue over taxes or foreign policy and then return to the ordinary business of living: work, worship, family, literature, music, sport, conviviality. This older balance has been upended. Politics no longer confines itself to government or elections; it increasingly permeates entertainment, education, business, sport, language—even private conscience. As I noted in my recent column about the “apolitical man,” today we inhabit a...

Trump Would 'Probably Be Open' To Meeting Iranian President, Who Will Address UN President Trump in a Sunday morning Fox News interview repeated some of his talking points about a big decision he is preparing to make regarding what comes next in the Iran war He told the outlet he's currently in "deciding mode" on Iran and that "very big things" are coming, and once again suggested it would either involve major military escalation or else a drawdown in tensions. The president said: "My question is, if and when do I blow the...