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China launched the world’s first geosynchronous synthetic aperture radar satellite in 2023, giving it continuous all-weather surveillance over roughly one-third of the planet (including the Asia-Pacific and Indian Ocean), later pairing it with a high-resolution optical spy satellite.
Let's discuss the critical mineral chokehold that allowed China to achieve this milestone, as well as the alternative supply chains that the United States is now building to counter the ruling Chinese Communist Party.

Havana Syndrome refers to a mysterious set of symptoms—headaches, dizziness, tinnitus, and cognitive issues—that has affected more than 1,500 U.S. intelligence and diplomatic personnel since 2016. The latest case, which was the most high-profile to date, is that of the former CIA Director James Woolsey, whose wife said that he was suffering from Havana Syndrome in the years leading up to his recent death. Let’s go through the details of what we know about this mysterious malady.

Venezuelan interim President Delcy Rodríguez has formally begun withdrawing the country from the International Criminal Court (ICC).
The United States, which never ratified the Rome Statute and has long viewed the ICC as a threat to its own sovereignty, publicly praised the move and framed it as support for an American-led effort to dismantle what the Department of State calls a “corrupt and worthless” court.
Let’s go through the details.

Let's go through the most recent spate of warnings, arising primarily from the Iran war, issued by the U.S. State Department and the embassies of several different countries.

A woman in Texas was shocked when she opened her front door and found the local police standing there, ready to arrest her over a Facebook post.
And the reason she was shocked was because that post wasn’t threatening anyone, nor was it calling for violence. Instead, she was simply commenting on the horrible quality of the water in the town’s local water supply.
One of our senior reporters here at The Epoch Times, Darlene McCormick Sanchez, went to where this all took place to get the full story. So today, let’s go through the details.