Elara Whitmore

Sydney 🇦🇺

🌍 Curious about world affairs & global politics | Sharing thoughts | Views are personal.

[Elara Whitmore @ElaraWhitmoree]

There are 5 shifts I want to see in the next 5 years:
1.Revival of the Quad
2.Real progress on a D10 framework
3.Japan rising as a key Indo-Pacific power
4.NATO in current form is outdated — needs reinvention.
5.Taiwan moving beyond the “One China” policy

[Elara Whitmore @ElaraWhitmoree]

@the_hindu @vijaita looks like US and China both want to change government in India

[The Hindu @the_hindu]

Confrontations with Chinese troops continue to take place at multiple sites along the border in Arunachal Pradesh, according to Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) director general Shatrujeet Kapur.✍️@vijaita
https://t.co/EohnTbZQKQ

[Elara Whitmore @ElaraWhitmoree]

@maltnewss we aussie need to improve 🫣

[Elara Whitmore @ElaraWhitmoree]

@grok @MassViper66 chatgpt couldn’t do this challenge

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

BREAKING: FBI arrests California woman accused of spying for China & surveilling the Taiwanese president’s son in the U.S.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

BREAKING: California man arrested for allegedly smuggling more than $300 million worth of AI servers to China.

[Jim Chalmers MP @JEChalmers]

BREAKING: Card surcharges are now banned.

[Elara Whitmore @ElaraWhitmoree]

it didn't work anymore. Hence, they needed someone inside the cockpit to take control. And quietly crash the flight.

Thanks to the brave Indian pilot, who opened the door, and foiled this plan.

[Elara Whitmore @ElaraWhitmoree]

Post 9/11, it was made mandatory that all commercial flight's cockpit doors were locked from the inside and only Pilots could open it.

Hence, the old trick of sending passengers to First class seats - closest to the cockpit so that they can barge in and take contro work anymore.

[شرق‌زده sharghzadeh @sharghzadeh]

Think about the Muslims on that emirates flight.

As the flight was plunging, they were praying to Allah, "Please Allah, save us!"

And then their savior was sent by Allah... in the form of an IDF soldier.

Unbelievable.

[WLVN @TheLegateIN]

Number of Chinese nationals working in Pakistan has fallen by 68% compared to 2019-20.

[Michael Ron Bowling @mrbcyber]

China's economic data is notoriously bad. The GDP data is obviously fake and the CCP covers up any negative information related to economic conditions.

The Chinese government is especially aggressive about covering up youth unemployment. If the numbers start looking too bad the data just disappears. But the numbers are getting so bad not it is hard to hide. AI will only make the problem worse.

[The Japan Times @japantimes]

Cricket remains a niche sport in baseball-mad Japan, but the Asian Games and a historic match against powerhouse India are giving the game an unprecedented opportunity to expand its audience. 👉 https://t.co/WAafKkCFGj

[Velina Tchakarova @vtchakarova]

India’s National Security Adviser Ajit Doval is in Beijing on a two-day visit. He is meeting China’s Foreign Minister and Politburo member Wang Yi. He is also scheduled to call on Chinese Vice President Han Zheng. The visit signals an effort to consolidate the post-2024 stabilisation process between India and China after the prolonged eastern-Ladakh crisis, but it is not evidence of a border settlement being imminent.

[Velina Tchakarova @vtchakarova]

China rejected India’s decision to formally record 27 places and geographical features in Arunachal Pradesh under their Indian names, calling the exercise “illegal, null and void”. Beijing does not recognise Arunachal Pradesh, which China refers to as Zangnan or 'south Tibet'.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇨🇳🇮🇳 China is SLAMMING India over a border dispute...

Beijing just blasted New Delhi for officially naming 27 sites in the disputed Arunachal Pradesh region, which China calls “Zangnan” and claims as its own.

India’s move (passes, a lake, a war memorial) is “illegal and invalid,” per China’s Foreign Ministry. “It cannot change the fact that Zangnan BELONGS to China.”

The spat comes as both sides attempt to stabilize ties after years of border tensions. India has long rejected China’s own renaming campaigns as “mischievous.”

The map wars in the Himalayas continue.

Source: Bloomberg / Writer: Jamie

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇫🇷🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

CCP propagandist monkey Andy Boreham says that Australians should accept being discriminated against in their own country by Chinese only businesses.

[First Squawk @FirstSquawk]

JAPAN DEFENCE MINISTER KOIZUMI ARRANGING VISITS TO INDIA AND AUSTRALIA IN AUGUST - KYODO

[Michael Ron Bowling @mrbcyber]

A significant number of CCP supporters are attacking this post. So, I had Gemini AI summarize information about the image

China is a police state and it is incredibly difficult to get info out. The image in the post is of a re-education camp, used as a gateway to forced labor

[Bloomberg @business]

India plans to invest as much as $4.7 billion into railway upgrades along its borders with China, Pakistan and Bangladesh, sources say https://t.co/XQqOmNXthk