🇨🇳 🇹🇼 Over the past 48 hours, China surrounded Taiwan and executed large-scale live-fire military exercises featuring simulated decapitation strikes and the seizure of key ports.

“It is a noose-style blockade. The operational scope is no longer limited to symbolic, isolated shows of force, but has evolved into a coordinated and interconnected blockade network, practicing the tactics to choke off the island’s vital supply lines,” the official PLA press account stated bluntly.

With a potential Day 3 on the horizon, here’s everything you might have missed:

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—❗️🇸🇾 NEW: The suicide bomber detonated himself when he was stopped by a police checkpoint on his way to a church in Aleppo

Green Orthodox Christians were holding a New Year ceremony at the church.

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