🇨🇳❌🇹🇼 — 📰 Chinese State Media, Global Times on Twitter:

— "On the Taiwan question, it is the core of China's core interests.

The Taiwan question is an internal affair of China and this is the first indisputable fact, said Chinese State Councilor and Minister of National Defense Li Shangfu at the 20th Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore"

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🔗 Global Times (@globaltimesnews)

🇺🇸🇭🇰🕯📸 — 📰 HKFP: The US Consulate in Hong Kong has displayed candles by the windows of their building on the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown.

The US Consulate in Hong Kong has displayed candles by the windows of their building on the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown.

🔗 Hong Kong Free Press HKFP (@hkfp)

🇨🇳❌🇺🇸🇨🇦 — On today, June 4, 2023, another incident involving Chinese People's Liberation Army and United States Armed Forces took place in the South China sea

According to reports published by American and Anglophone medias, a Chinese PLA-N vessel came within 150 yards (~137 m) of US Navy vessel USS Chung-Hoon and the Royal Canadian Navy frigate HMCS Montreal as both vessels executed a transit in the international waters of the Taiwan Straits

— "During the transit, PLA(N) LUYANG III DDG 132 (PRC LY 132) executed maneuvers in an unsafe manner in the vicinity of Chung-Hoon," said a statement from U.S. Armed Forces Indo-Pacific Command — "The PRC LY 132 overtook Chung-Hoon on their port side and crossed their bow at 150 yards. Chung-Hoon maintained course and slowed to 10 kts to avoid a collision,"

This is the second incident in less than 2 weeks involving attempts by Mainland China to intercept Western Armies units and vessels on the South China Sea

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