🇨🇳🇮🇳🇧🇩⚡- China has significantly expanded the Jialaishi Air Base, Tibet region. Imagery Rerum Novarum has taken dated to 2025 shows at least 3+ runways, with over 30+ aircraft hangers, including bombers, tankers and recon planes. Electronic warfare equipment as well as air defenses are visible too.

The base, which is located just south of Xigaze Peace Airport, 5-6 years ago did not even exist (as evident on images dated to 2019).

The site is located near India's border, but more importantly near India's weak point, the Siliguri Corridor. Indian media recently claimed Bangladesh has invited China to 'revitalize' the Lalmonirhat Air Base, northern Bangladesh.

🇹🇩⚡- Large-scale purge underway in Chad, President Mahamat Deby has fired dozens of senior officers from the defense ministry and the military forces. French outlet, 'Le Monde', believes most of the targets are of the ruling Zaghawa class.

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇪🇺⚡- "My message to Europe is that America does not want a subservient continent," - JD Vance, US Vice-President, in an interview with British outlet 'UnHerd'.

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇪🇺⚡- "It is not good for Europe to remain permanently dependent on the United States for security," - JD Vance, US Vice-President, in an interview with British outlet 'UnHerd'.

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇪🇺⚡- "The entire European security infrastructure was supported by the United States," - JD Vance, US Vice-President, in an interview with British outlet 'UnHerd'.

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇪🇺⚡- "The rule is that European leaders have neglected to invest significantly in security," - JD Vance, US Vice-President, in an interview with British outlet 'UnHerd'.

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇪🇺⚡- "We are friends of Europe, but only if its leaders are willing to play a more independent international role," - JD Vance, US Vice-President, in an interview with British outlet 'UnHerd'.

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇪🇺⚡- "We are working hard with the British government, but with other European countries things may be more difficult," - JD Vance, US Vice-President, in an interview with British outlet 'UnHerd'.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- "It's ridiculous for Zelensky to tell an administration that funds his government and war efforts that they support Russia," - JD Vance, US Vice-President, in an interview with British outlet 'UnHerd'.

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇪🇺⚡- "I love European people. I’ve said repeatedly that I think that you can’t separate American culture from European culture," - JD Vance, US Vice-President, in an interview with British outlet 'UnHerd'.

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇪🇺⚡- "The reality is, it’s blunt to say it, but it’s also true, that Europe’s entire security infrastructure, for my entire life, has been subsidized by the United States of America. As recently as a quarter-century ago, you could say that Europe had many vibrant militaries, at least militaries that could defend their own homelands," - JD Vance, US Vice-President, in an interview with British outlet 'UnHerd'.

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇪🇺⚡- "Fast forward to today, most European nations don’t have militaries that can provide for their reasonable defense. The British are an obvious exception, the French are an obvious exception, the Poles are an obvious exception," - JD Vance, US Vice-President, in an interview with British outlet 'UnHerd'.

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇪🇺⚡- "I don’t think that Europe being more independent is bad for the United States — it’s good for the United States. Just going back through history, I think, quite frankly, the British and the French were certainly right in their disagreements with Eisenhower about the Suez Canal," - JD Vance, US Vice-President, in an interview with British outlet 'UnHerd'.

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇪🇺⚡- "My message to the Europeans in that of Charles de Gaulle at the height of the Cold War, when the French President said he 'loved the United States of America', but he recognized what I certainly recognize, that it’s not in Europe’s interest, and it’s not in America’s interest, for Europe to be a permanent security vassal of the United States," - JD Vance, US Vice-President, in an interview with British outlet 'UnHerd'.

🇱🇧🇵🇸⚡- Saudi outlet, al-Hadath, says the Lebanese intelligence forces have arrested Hamas members in several camps in the south of Lebanon.

Reports are unconfirmed.

🇬🇧 - UK Supreme Court rules that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex.

⚡️🇱🇧🇻🇪🇨🇴🇧🇷🇪🇨 Al-Hadath, citing a diplomatic source from Latin America, reports that Hezbollah recently transferred around 400 regional commanders and their families to Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil, and Ecuador. The decision was made amid fears the group’s military structure could collapse, and that senior officials may be targeted by Israel or arrested by international intelligence services.

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🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Russia has asked the United States to allow frozen Russian assets to be used to purchase Boeing aircrafts after a ceasefire is reached in Ukraine," - Bloomberg.

#NEWS | US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Trump's Envoy Steve Witkoff to travel to Paris on April 16-18.

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🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- "Trump personally ordered the cancellation of a Pentagon briefing that was to reveal Washington's secret plans in the event of a conflict with China, because Elon Musk was in attendance.

"What the hell is Musk doing here? Make sure he doesn't show up," source quotes Trump saying, indicating that the President personally ordered his staff to cancel the meeting," - Axios.

🇺🇸🇸🇾⚡- "We deny the accuracy of media reports regarding the reduction of our forces in Syria," - The Pentagon.