The Taiwan-Israel #Pager collusion goes into the books as the deadliest semiconductor espionage & corporate sabotage the world has ever seen. It reveals a dangerous intersection of technology, geopolitics, corporate terrorism & separatism.
2/ In a shocking revelation, Middle Eastern sources say that #Taiwan's corporate semiconductor industry and #Israel have colluded to manufacture explosive-fitted pagers specifically the Gold Apollo AR-924 manufactured by Gold Apollo Co., Ltd in New Taipei City, Taiwan. #Pagers
3/ Tens of thousands of these pagers Made in Taiwan were sent to #Lebanon where they were used extensively in hospitals for doctors and by civilians owing to Lebanon's weak internet infrastructure which necessitated the widespread use of these pagers extending to Syria. #Pagers
4/ The pagers, allegedly altered during manufacturing process in Taiwan were fitted with explosive devices targeting would be users' 🇱🇧🇸🇾 doctors & nurses with the exception of the American University of Beirut hospital whose staff were asked to replace their #pagers 10 days ago.
5/ The devastating harm caused by the #Pager espionage is nothing short of a corporate terrorism. With over 17 dead, the youngest being a 9 year old girl, and with over 3,000 injuries, there is just no plausible explanation for such explosive power from a standard pager mishap.
6/6 Given the reports coming from the Arab and Muslim world, Taiwan's alleged collusion with Israel to produce deadly pagers fitted with cyber-activated explosives has shattered its trust with the #Muslim world losing billions in bilateral trade & services with the Muslim world.
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1/ Sinicization: We will use FMR KMT Chairman Ma Ying-jeou's usage of 'de-Sinicization' to define "sinicization" where we rule out that sinicization is not the imposition of atheism on Chinese Muslims as presented by Western media to sow discord between China & the Muslim world.
2/ On the above video - the former KMT Chairman said "any attempts of 'de-Sinicization' will not succeed," during his visit to mainland China last month. His "de-Sinicization" was referring to Taiwan. From this context, we can infer that "Sinicization" is not related to religion.
3/ The "de-Sinicization" phrase of the FMR KMT leader was referring to Taiwan and from this sense, we can interpret the "de-Sinicization" of Taiwan to mean - depriving the island from Chinese culture, localism, language, heritages, sense of belonging & unity within the 🇨🇳 people.
1/ Hong Kong was a functioning example of "gunboat diplomacy" for 156 years, in fact the term "gunboat diplomacy" originated from Britain's naval threats that allowed them to impose a one-sided treaty on #HongKong after coercing China to cede the island per se to avoid bloodshed.
2/ The Chinese had it all during the 17th century, they had everything that the Europeans were drooling after, from porcelain to silk, tea & rice - attracting European demands. Europe had silver which the Chinese wanted in exchange for the goods but the Europeans had other plans.
3/ Imperialist Europe at first didn't come to China as invaders but rather as traders. They knew China was too big to fully colonize, instead they settled as trading companies along China's coastal ports, namely Hong Kong & Macau - ports that would go on to become "treaty ports".
1/ 🧵 Thread: Colonial wildlife crimes & the extinction of the Atlas King
The Atlas lion, once the symbol of power of the North African heritages & a magnificent creature that roared through the Atlas Mountains – Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia & Libya. That was until Europeans came.
2/ A dreadful mane saddled over the head of this lion covering the jawlines, neck & muscular shoulders, long hairs that ran from the neck through the front legs and down to the belly. This was the Atlas lion, also known as the Barbary lion once the largest lion species in Africa.
3/ The look, the roar, the size, the aggression, the mane, the posture & everything about this lion intimidated European colonizers and this beautiful creature was marked as a threat to European colonial activities in North Africa. Shared coexistence was never a European culture.
1/🧵 🌊 France has overseas territories found in all of the planet’s oceans & globally the largest exclusive economic zone totaling over 11.7 million km2. France owns 10% of the world’s exclusive economic zones while its land area is just 0.45% of Earth’s total land area. #France
2/ The Africa that belong to Europe! France a country that's 16% smaller than #Somalia has claims to African territories 10km away from France. As of today, France occupies maritime territories in the Indian Ocean belonging to African countries & has claims in dispute. #Africa
3/ Who are the coastline pirates?
1. #Asia: 220,266 km 59.7% of the world's population
1/6 🧵 Thread: Occupied coastlines & illegal fishing in Somalia. Much of Somalia's maritime territories & assets are occupied by joint Western naval forces under anti-piracy initiatives which by the nurtures the biggest EU illegal fishing activities in Somalia's waters. #Somalia
2/6 Somalia has Africa's longest coastline regarded among the richest countries in fish, diverse marine life, seabed oil/gas/mining resources & maritime assets. Sadly #Somalia's maritime territories are hotbed for Western naval exploitations which limits our fishing activities.
3/6 Besides China which is the only country that has entered a legal fishing cooperation with Somalia which also makes China the only country that's paying for its fishing activities in Somalia although such deal is consistently attacked by Western naval forces in Somalia. Why?
🧵 Thread on Malcolm X: Why the Anglo-Saxon imperialists will never win another war on the ground. Over the last two decades, they lost in #Afghanistan #Ukraine #Syria #Lebanon (2006) and now the #Gazagenocide shows they perform #Gaza bombardments over ground invasion. (1/8)
"The white man can never win another war on the ground. His days of war, victory, his reign -- his days of ground victory are over. Can I prove it? Yes. Take all the action that’s going on this earth right now that he’s involved in -- tell me where he’s winning. Nowhere. (2/8)
Why some rice farmers -- some rice farmers -- some rice eaters ran him out of Korea. Yes, they ran him out of Korea. Rice eaters with nothing but gym shoes, and a rifle, and a bowl of rice took him and his tanks and his napalm, (3/8)