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🇺🇸🇨🇳 Taiwan came up after Trump's meeting with Xi, and Rubio had a simple answer. U.S. policy toward Taiwan is "unchanged." Xi had warned Trump that mishandling Taiwan could lead to "clashes and even conflicts" between the two countries. For all the pressure coming out of Beijing, the U.S. answer on Taiwan stayed exactly where it was. Source: NBC News

🇨🇳🇺🇸 Looks like Elon brought Lil X along with him to Beijing! They were seen walking through the Great Hall of the People together. When the teacher asks “What did you do for Summer vacation?” on the first day of school next year, we know who will have the best answer 😂

🇪🇺 EUROPE'S ENERGY SITUATION IS MORE COMPLICATED THAN IT LOOKS On paper, Europe seems insulated. EU law mandates 90+ days of emergency oil reserves. Middle Eastern crude is only ~8% of imports. Pakistan has 3 days. Europe has months. But that's the oil story. The gas story is different. Europe gets 12–14% of its LNG from Qatar, through the Strait of Hormuz. That supply is gone. And it hit at the worst possible moment. Europe entered this crisis with gas storage at just 30% capacity after an unusually harsh winter. Dutch gas prices nearly doubled. The EU's energy import bill jumped €13 billion overnight. The ECB shelved its planned rate cuts. UK inflation is heading above 5%. Europe won't run out of oil. But it's being squeezed on gas, inflation, and industrial costs simultaneously, heading into a summer that was already supposed to be the recovery. Is Europe sleepwalking into a recession?

🇮🇱🇱🇧🇹🇷 Turkey's FM Hakan Fidan: “Israel is not after its own security. Israel is after more land. Security is being used by the Netanyahu government as an excuse to occupy more land.” Hard to argue with that when Israel's own Defence Minister is openly saying Israel will keep every position it "cleared and captured" in southern Lebanon, ceasefire or not. Katz: Hezbollah will be disarmed "one way or another." A ceasefire that one side treats as a pause while holding conquered ground is a ceasefire in name only. Source: Al Jazeera

NO ONE LEFT BEHIND: Russia Authorizes Military Operations to Rescue Citizens from Foreign Courts! 🇷🇺⚔️🌍 The State Duma has passed the first reading of a bill allowing the deployment of the Russian Armed Forces to protect Russian citizens arrested abroad. According to the legislation, the military can be used to safeguard Russians in cases of arrest, criminal charges, or other forms of prosecution by foreign state courts. Russia is making it clear: its citizens are under the protection of the army, no matter where they are.

🇮🇷 Iran’s Deputy FM Kazem Gharibabadi: "Iran will soon set transit fees for ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz."

🚨🇮🇱 New footage from inside a home shows the exact moment the ballistic missile struck Dimona, injuring ~47 people Poor elderly woman, I'm glad she's ok This video is more evidence that the nuclear plant was not struck, it's a residential area

🇮🇷 Everyone’s watching oil, but that’s just the surface of a much bigger global problem For almost 3 weeks, Hormuz being shut has trapped nearly 20% of global oil. But it’s also blocking the raw stuff behind everyday life. Aluminum, chemicals, fuel inputs, even helium… all stuck. Now factories are slowing down. Asia’s refineries are struggling, China and India already cutting output. Diesel and jet fuel prices are jumping fast. Plastic makers can’t get materials, so some are just stopping production. Then it hits tech. A major Qatar plant shutting means about 40% of global helium gone. That messes with chip-making, so phones, electronics… all get affected. And the real pressure point? Food. About 1/3 of global fertilizer passes through here. Prices already up 40%. Poor countries are planting less. So yeah, this isn’t just an oil story anymore. It’s slowly turning into a supply shock across everything… energy, tech, food. One narrow waterway, and the whole system starts shaking. Source: Business Basics YT

United States Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard: - Russia retains the capability to selectively challenge U.S. interests globally by military and non-military means; - The most dangerous threat posed by Russia to the U.S. is the potential of an escalatory spiral in an ongoing conflict, such as Ukraine, or a new conflict that led to direct hostilities, including the potential deployment of nuclear weapons; - Russia is also building an extensive counter space capabilities to contest U.S. space dominance. Its development of a nuclear counter space weapon poses the greatest single threat to the world's space architecture. - During the past year, the IC assesses that Russia has maintained the upper hand in the war against Ukraine. U.S. led negotiations between Moscow and Kyiv are ongoing. Until such an agreement is met, Moscow is likely to continue fighting a slow war of attrition until they view their objectives have been achieved.