A 100-Ton Patrol Boat with the Taiwanese Coast Guard, PP-10090, shadows a ship with the Chinese Coast Guard off the coast of Taiwan, during ongoing snap-military drills by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Eastern Theater Command simulating a blockade against the Island of Taiwan.

Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense reports that between 6:00 a.m. Monday and 6:00 a.m. Tuesday, 130 Chinese military aircraft, 14 naval vessels, and 8 coast guard vessels with detected operated around the Island of Taiwan, with 90 out of 130 aircraft crossing the median line and entering Taiwan’s Northern, Central, Southwestern Air Defense Identification Zone.

A Chinese Coast Guard Hutao I-Class Patrol Gunboat (PP-14609) being intercepted by a 100-Ton Patrol Boat with the Taiwanese Coast Guard (PP-10082) earlier today after the vessel purposefully entered Taiwanese Territorial Waters.

A CM-11 “Brave Tiger” Main Battle Tank and Soldiers with the 333rd Mechanized Infantry Brigade, 8th Army Corps of the Republic of China Army, participate in a Rapid Response Exercise to counter ongoing snap-military drills surrounding the island by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Eastern Theater Command.

Despite a ceasefire being agreed to Monday during a summit in Southern China between the Foreign Ministers of Thailand and Cambodia, many analysts and traders on Polymarket don’t seem to be convinced it will hold, with the chance of renewed Thai airstrikes against Cambodia by June 30, 2026, currently at 57%.

The Eastern Theater Command of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army has announced and published footage of a long-range live-fire strike exercise carried out this morning by PCL-191 Long-Range Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (MLRS) against international water to the north of Taiwan.

Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council has declared a comprehensive 72-hour blockade of all air, sea, and land ports across the country, effective immediately, in addition to a 90-day nationwide state of emergency, following recent tensions with the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC). President Rashad al-Alimi, Head of the PLC, has also issued a decree declaring that all joint defense agreement with the United Arab Emirates are now void, with all UAE Forces required to departed Yemen by Wednesday, December 31.

The Saudi Foreign Ministry has released a statement expressing disappointment in actions taken by the United Arab Emirates in pressuring the Southern Transitional Council (STC) in Yemen to conduct military operations in the Hadramout and Al-Mahara Governorates of Eastern Yemen, on the southern borders of Saudi Arabia.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia states that they consider the actions a threat to national security, a “red line” and that they will “not hesitate to take all necessary steps and measures to confront and neutralize any such threat,” adding that the steps taken by the UAE are considered highly dangerous and inconsistent with the principles established under the Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen.

The Saudi Foreign Ministry ends the statement by calling for the United Arab Emirates to accept the Republic of Yemen's request for all its forces to leave the Republic of Yemen within twenty four hours, and to halt any further military or financial support to any party within Yemen.

The Russian Ministry of Defense has announced that the “Oreshnik” Nuclear-Capable Hypersonic Intermediate-Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM) has entered active combat service with the Strategic Rocket Forces in Eastern Belarus.

Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense has confirmed this morning’s long-range live-fire strike exercise carried out by PCL-191 Long-Range Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (MLRS) assigned to the 2nd Company, 1st Battalion, 1st Brigade Rocket Artillery of the 72nd Group Army, under the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Eastern Theater Command, with the rockets being fired from Pingtan County, Fuzhou City in the Fujian Province of Southeastern China. According to the Taiwanese Coast Guard, seven rockets were detected landing within Zone 1 and 2, roughly 24NM to the north of the Island of Taiwan.

Large drone attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine is currently underway against the Russian capital of Moscow.

Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov states that there is no need to release evidence of the alleged Ukrainian drone attack yesterday against the state residence of President Vladimir Putin in the Novgorod Oblast of Northwestern Russia.

For the first time, M1A2T “Abrams” Main Battle Tanks with the Republic of China Army have been been spotted in active combat service in Taiwan, participating in ongoing Rapid Response Exercises to counter snap-military drills by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Eastern Theater Command.