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Xi Orders Military to Prepare for War, Unveils New Hypersonic Missile

Xi said that the Party’s military branch must train for any war and be prepared for unforeseen conflicts.

He said the military must devote all its energy toward combat readiness and work to “enhance its capability to fight and win,” according to Chinese state-owned media outlet Xinhua.

The military “must implement the Party’s idea of strengthening the army in the new era,” Xi said, using a term for the CCP’s vision of a new historical age in which China is the world’s leading power.
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The inspection coincided with a bellicose display at the regime’s fourth annual air show, during which it publicly displayed its most advanced fighter jet for the first time and unveiled a new hypersonic missile apparently designed to target U.S. forces.

Also on display was the regime’s most advanced aircraft, the J-20 stealth fighter. Little is known about the J-20 other than that it appears to be a clone of the American F-35, likely made with stolen design technologies. It remains unclear whether the Chinese military will use the aircraft in an all-purpose role, the same way the United States uses the F-35, or if it will specialize in one particular domain, such as air superiority.

The aircraft entered service in 2017, and while there are still many unknowns about its capabilities and use, U.S. forces have had a close encounter with it.

“We recently had, I wouldn’t call it an engagement, but we got relatively close to the J-20s with our F-35s in the East China Sea and were relatively impressed with the command and control that was associated with the J-20s,” said Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach, commander of the Pacific Air Forces, during a March 14 interview with the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies.

The regime also used the air show to publicly unveil its latest weapon, an export version of the YJ-21 hypersonic missile.

The YJ-21, commonly referred to as the Eagle Strike 21, has a combat range of more than 1,200 miles and can fly at speeds exceeding Mach 12.

Maricopa County Says It’s Found a Solution for Tabulation Issues, Blames Printer

Authorities in Maricopa County, Arizona, say they appear to have found a solution to tabulation issues on Nov. 8 in dozens of polling stations across the county.

Earlier in the day, election officials said that tabulators in about 20 percent of polling sites in the county were malfunctioning. Voters were still able to vote at locations with defective machines, although the ballots would be placed in a secured box, election officials said.

At about 2 p.m. local time, the Maricopa County Elections Command Center said in a statement that officials “identified a solution” to the problem and said “printer settings” were the cause.

“County technicians have changed the printer settings at about 60 Vote Centers,” the statement said. “It appears some of the printers were not producing dark enough timing marks on the ballots,” it added, saying the solution worked at 17 locations so far. Officials said technicians are now working to resolve the issue around the county, which includes Phoenix, Arizona’s most populous city.

 Yes, dear readers, we are talking about the very same Maricopa County that never admitted that the 2020 elections were stolen by manipulating the ballots to favor Biden against all odds. Besides, you should remember how the Arizona Senate wanted Maricopa County to provide routers, or digital copies of the routers, and certain passwords to voting machines. The local sheriff's office refused to comply based on their weird claim that it risked law enforcement somehow.  If a senate orders you to do something like providing public property to the senators for inspection, you should do so without coming up with poor excuses. Even so, the sheriff didn't care about that.

During a Nov. 8 news conference, Maricopa Board of Supervisors Chair Bill Gates said that after some voters filled out their ballots, the tabulator wouldn’t accept them. That issue was present in about 20 percent of county polling sites.

Gates told the press conference that voters should place ballots in a drop box, where they “will remain secure in there all day long.”

“At the end of voting after 7 p.m., when everything is completed, these ballots will be taken out securely and delivered by a bipartisan team … down to here at the central tabulation center,” he said.

After reviewing recent history, it's hard to believe a word that comes out of their mouths anymore.

China Bolsters Cooperation With Pakistan, Offers Major Financial Package

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has assured Pakistan’s leader that his government will continue to support Pakistan in stabilizing its financial situation and inject “new impetus” into their strategic partnership.

Xi made the remarks during a meeting with visiting Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Nov. 2. The two leaders issued a joint statement pledging to expand their socio-economic cooperation.
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Both sides agreed to expedite the construction of the Gwadar seaport in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, as well as the development of Pakistan’s Main Line-1 (ML-1) project and Karachi Circular Railway project.

“China supports its provinces with a strong industry in pairing up with Pakistani partners to advance industrial cooperation, and hopes the Pakistani side will provide a sound business environment,” Xi said.

For his part, Sharif said that Pakistan would stand ready to work with China, saying that “the world cannot operate without China and China’s development cannot be isolated or contained by any force.”

The $60 billion CPEC is part of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI, also known as “One Belt, One Road”) launched by Xi in 2013. Other countries, including the United States, have criticized the BRI infrastructure program as a “debt trap” for smaller nations.

Pakistani Finance Minister Ishaq Dar said that China has agreed to roll over $4 billion in sovereign loans, refinance $3.3 billion in commercial bank loans, and increase currency swap by about $1.45 billion following the leaders’ meeting.

Dar said that Pakistan would also receive $4.2 billion from Saudi Arabia, which would include a $3 billion financial package and a $1.2 billion deferred oil facility, ARY News reported.
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Pakistan has an external debt of over $130 billion, $30 billion of which is owed to China. Pakistan has asked China to roll over its $6.3 billion debt that is due to mature in the next eight months, The Indian Express reported.

The country was hit by unprecedented floods last month, triggered by heavier-than-usual monsoon rains that began in June. More than 30 million people were affected, while crops and bridges were destroyed.

Philadelphia Imposes Last-Minute Change to How Votes Are Counted

In a 2–1 vote during a special meeting, the Philadelphia city commissioners decided to amend how ballots are processed.

The change focuses on reconciliation, or reviewing absentee ballots and in-person votes to make sure people don’t cast duplicate votes.

Facing pressure from a lawsuit, Commissioners Lisa Deeley, a Democrat, and Seth Bluestein, a Republican, voted to have reconciliation take place for ballots cast in the midterm elections.
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Commissioner Omar Sabin, a Democrat, voted against reinstating the procedure.

Philadelphia officials recently announced that they decided to stop reconciliation. Poll workers, backed by the Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections group, sued in late October over the decision, arguing that state law requires the process, which identified 40 instances of illegal duplicates in the 2020 primary.

In an order handed down on Nov. 7, Common Pleas Judge Anne Marie Coyle denied a request for a preliminary injunction, or an injunction against rolling back reconciliation, finding that the motion was filed too close to the midterms and that the relief “would cause a greater measure of harm to the electoral process conducted in the upcoming general election … than would denial of their Petition.”
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The evidence in the case shows officials failed to consider how the public would react to the late announcement that reconciliation was not going to be utilized and that the officials “have unwisely discounted the inherent deterrence of fraudulent voting value that the Poll Book Rendition process has afforded the City of Philadelphia even in its unimproved and imperfect state,” Coyle said.

The decision itself might result in a demand for the return of the grant money, according to the judge.

Here's something I want to highlight because it's quite strange, especially because it came out of a Republican's mouth.  His name is Seth Bluestein.

“I want to make very clear that when there are conversations that occur later this evening about whether or not Philadelphia has counted all of their ballots, that the reason that some ballots will not be counted, it’s because Republican attorneys targeted Philadelphia—and only Philadelphia—trying to force us to do a procedure that no other county does,” Bluestein said before the vote. “And while we technically won the court case in Common Pleas Court, the opinion that was written was written in a way that we have no other choice but to go forward and reinstate reconciliation.”

 Why wouldn't it be extremely important to double check whether ballots weren't duplicated!?