Trump to Xi:

You are a great leader. I say it to everybody, that you are a great leader. Sometimes people don’t like me saying it, but I say it anyway because it’s true.

I only say the truth.

Trump to Xi:

It’s an honor to be with you. It’s an honor to be your friend, and the relationship between China and the USA is going to be better than ever before.

Marco Rubio on Cuba:

This is a country where people are literally eating garbage from the streets.

Reporter: How were the talks sir?

Trump: Great. China is beautiful.

Reporter: Did you talk about Taiwan?

Trump: (No answer)

Xi Jinping warned Trump that the US and China could “come into conflict” if the Taiwan issue is mishandled, according to Chinese state media.

Xi described Taiwan as the most important issue in US-China relations and said poor handling could push ties between the two countries into “a very dangerous place.”

UKMTO reports an incident 38NM northeast of Fujairah, UAE.

A vessel at anchor was reportedly boarded by unauthorized personnel and is now heading toward Iranian territorial waters.

Russia launched one of its largest strikes on Ukraine in the past 24 hours.

Over 1,400 drones and 50+ missiles, hitting western regions first, then Kyiv.

Satellite imagery shows Russia has covered two nuclear-armed Borei-class submarines at its Kamchatka Pacific base — 7,400 km from Ukraine — in full anti-drone netting.

It's the first time entire submarines, not just their sails or piers, have been netted this way.

The subs each carry 16 intercontinental ballistic missiles with multiple warheads.

French President Macron:

African problems must first and foremost be settled and coordinated by Africa.

We must finally put an end to external interference which feeds many conflicts, particularly in Sudan.

French President Macron:

The time has come for Africa to be represented among the permanent members of the UN Security Council.

No one can legitimately understand how a veto can block the UN when a mass crime is underway.

Selçuk Bayraktar, CTO of Turkish aerospace company BAYKAR:

If you make enough drones, nobody will attack you.

Russia is building a “full-fledged partnership” with Afghanistan’s Taliban government, senior Russian official Sergei Shoigu said.

Shoigu said Moscow is expanding cooperation with Kabul on security, trade, culture, and humanitarian aid, and urged regional countries to deepen ties with Afghanistan.

Russia formally recognized the Taliban government in 2025 after removing the group from its terrorist list.

Source: Reuters

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich:

I think that in this term, de facto, we are killing the idea of a Palestinian state.

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich:

We need to exploit the window of opportunity of a friendly administration in the White House and a right-wing government here… to de facto kill the idea of establishing a Palestinian state in the heart of the Land of Israel.

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich:

You see a halt in illegal Palestinian construction in the West Bank.

For the first time, we reversed the trend: more demolitions than construction.

That means the trend is moving backwards. We are demolishing four-, five-, and six-story buildings. This creates deterrence — nobody likes investing money in a losing fund.

We are now moving toward a land registration process in the West Bank — something that was stopped after the Six-Day War.

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich:

If we want long-term security, then Gaza must be settled.

We also need to encourage migration — to remove the 1.8 million, or however many are left there.

Gaza should be resettled. Settlement will bring security.

Netanyahu:

As one thinker once said — actually in Russia — he said: “The State of Israel is a small superpower, but it is a superpower.”

We are going to become a large global superpower.

John Bolton:

Negotiating a nuclear deal with Iran is a waste of oxygen.

These people made a strategic decision decades ago to get nuclear weapons.

There is not a single piece of evidence in 47 years that they’ve abandoned that objective.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee:

I hear people say, “I don’t want anything to do with Israel.”

Okay, give up your cell phone. Give up car navigation. Give up some medical innovations that may have saved some member of your family’s life.

Be sure, by the way, to give up some conveniences like cherry tomatoes and seedless watermelons while you’re at it.

And let’s just go ahead and don’t buy anything that has an Nvidia or an Intel chip. Let’s get rid of most of your computers and a whole lot of the software that you use because it was innovated here.

And I’m sorry to break it to you, but if you hate Israel that much, you’re going to be living a very different kind of life.

An Israeli comedian's stand-up routine captured an audience member — an Israeli Navy veteran who guarded Palestinian detainees — casually confirming that prisoners were subjected to sexual abuse including objects being inserted.

The comedian responded:

"Do they get to choose too? Like, 'Can I get the broom?' Do they ask for it?" — to applause from the crowd.

"The whole audience... Crimes against humanity, everyone's clapping, great, well done!"

Senator Graham on Trump's China visit:

Xi could pick up the phone and help end the Russia-Ukraine war.

He could help end the Iran conflict if he chose to.

Without China buying Iranian oil, they would be out of business.

If China continues to disrupt the world by propping up Iran and Russia without paying a price, we will have made a huge mistake.

I have legislation that would allow President Trump to put tariffs on China for buying Russian oil and gas.

The only thing China respects is strength.

If they’re still doing the same thing with Iran and Russia and we don’t punish them, we’ve made a mistake.