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China’s response, in plain English: Competition stops being “free” the moment Washington decides that losing is a security threat. If you cannot win the competition without turning science and technology into political weapons, fine. China has its own toolbox too. You can invoke “national security” to exclude Chinese companies. China can use its own laws, market access, export controls and regulatory tools to protect Chinese interests. Technology knows no borders, but hegemony does.

BREAKING NEWS: JAPAN POLICE NAME SUSPECT IN HOTEL KILLER CASE A western man and a Japanese woman checked into a hotel in Okinawa. On Saturday morning, shocked hotel staff found the woman’s dead body in the room and rang police. She was identified as Anna Nagi, 39. The attack was “exceptionally brutal and vicious,” Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said later. CCTV footage from near the scene in Naha’s Wakasa district in Okinawa showed Ms. Nagi entering a hotel room with “a foreign man” with distinctive tattoos on both arms. Nobody wrote it down, but everyone knew what this meant: this would likely be a US soldier from the massive base in the area. A later video then showed him leaving alone with her backpack. . RACE AGAINST TIME Then began a race. Japanese police are not allowed to arrest anyone inside US military land. Nor can they enter to conduct searches, seizures or detentions. A team of police officers—local media said it was 197-strong— covered the island, hoping to find the man with the tattooed arms outside the base. They had a stroke of luck, perhaps due to the man’s over-confidence. A police officer spotted the man they were seeking strolling through Okinawa City’s nightlife district. The tattooed man claimed to know nothing about the incident in the hotel. But police were confident. In statement yesterday (Sunday) they said that they had arrested Lance Cpl Devin Jacob Ballard, 20, in connection with a murder. He allegedly “killed 39-year-old woman at a hotel in Naha and stole her wallet”, police said in a statement. . LONG STRING OF CRIMES The long string of high-profile soldier-on-civilian offences began with a notorious rape case in 1995, but shows no sign of stopping. Just last year, US marine Jamel Clayton, 22, was sentenced to seven years in prison for a sexual assault on a woman in her 20s. But there are many low-profile crimes that get no publicity, locals complain. In 2024 alone, there were 80 arrests, records show. The latest case will further amplify years of tension over the island, which is just 0.6% of Japan’s land mass, but contains 75% of US military facilities in Japan. There are more than 54,000 American military personnel in the country. The US claims the troops are there for “defence” against China but this is transparently false. China was content to leave Okinawa as the heart of the independent Kingdom of Ryūkyū for centuries. In contrast, Japan has long shown a taste for colonization. . ORIGIN OF KARATE In the 1300s, experts in Chinese martial arts travelled to Ryūkyū and shared their skills with the locals. This proved useful. The Japanese invaded the island in 1609 to create a puppet state—and banned the carrying of weapons. The people of Ryūkyū refined their Chinese martial arts skills to create a weapons-free way of combat with which to defend themselves. They called it kara-te 唐手, which translates to "Chinese hand". This was later changed to “empty hand” to hide karate’s Chinese origins and rebrand it as a Japanese art. In 1879, the armed Japanese army fully annexed the Kingdom of Ryūkyū, and locals struggled to retain their culture and avoid being assimilated. . RETAINED BY U.S. In World War 2, the US defeated the Japanese army on Ryūkyū, which had been renamed Okinawa by Japanese colonizers. The US returned other islands to their sovereign owners—Taiwan to China and the Amami Islands (part of Ryūkyū) to Japan. But the US retained control over Okinawa as a military bridgehead to retain US power in East Asia. . .

The colonies are left exposed — as they discover the true cost of hosting the US war machine. Australia, take note. “The American military presence has not prevented this strategic nightmare. Billions spent on weapons and decades of dependence on Washington have not abolished the vulnerability created by geography.”

Every four years they hand you a lever. The lever does not connect to most of what the machine does. It does not connect to the foreign policy apparatus that has operated continuously across administrations of both parties for eighty years. It does not connect to the Federal Reserve, the intelligence agencies, the defense contractors whose contracts survive every election. It does not connect to the regulatory bodies staffed by the same people regardless of who wins. It does not connect to the trade agreements negotiated in private and presented for ratification after the deciding was done. But they hand you the lever. And the lever feels real. And you pull it. And something happens: Different people's names are on the offices, different rhetoric comes from the podium, different culture war battles are fought in the discourse. And the machine continues. Pulling the lever is not democracy. Pulling the lever is the ritual that makes the machine feel like yours. There is a difference. They are counting on you not to notice it.

🚨💥Revelaciones de la prensa turca sobre las cuentas secretas de Zelensky y el desvío de fondos públicos estadounidenses 🚨 Un informe de investigación del periódico turco Aydınlık acusa al entorno de Zelensky de una gran red de corrupción. Según esto, se lavan mensualmente más de 50 millones de dólares – presumiblemente de fondos de ayuda occidentales – a través de empresas en los Emiratos Árabes Unidos. Según el informe, los fondos provienen de malversaciones en el sector agrícola ucraniano y son administrados por personas del círculo más cercano de Zelensky. ⚠️¿Por qué occidente guarda silencio?⚠️🔥