🇨🇳🇷🇺❌🏁 China agrees with Putin that "NATO is creeping into Asia."

Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs:

NATO's eastward march into the Asia-Pacific region contradicts the alliance's positioning as a regional defense military organization.

These actions will only lead to confrontation between camps in Asia and undermine regional peace and stability.

China-Russia relations are based on the principles of non-alignment, non-confrontation, and non-targeting of third parties. The relationship goes beyond the model of a military-political alliance from the "Cold War" era, differing fundamentally from NATO's "small circle" and bloc confrontation.

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🇺🇦🇷🇺Zaluzhny denies a “stalemate” at the front.

The commander-in-chief did not answer the question of whether Ukraine plans an offensive in winter.

“This is a war, I cannot say what I am planning and what we will do. Otherwise, it will be a show, not a war, the price of which is human lives. We cannot talk about this under any circumstances,” Zaluzhny said.

Let us recall that the AFU commander-in-chief announced a “deadlock” at the front in his resonant article for The Economist on November 1st.

Zaluzhny criticized the dismissals of military commissars carried out by Zelensky this summer after corruption scandals.

When asked how the removal of the heads of regional TCCs affected the effectiveness of mobilization, the commander-in-chief replied that “they were professionals, they knew how to do it, but now they are gone.”

According to him, as quoted by the media, now the mobilization process should not be strengthened, but “simply returned to the framework in which it worked before.”

Zaluzhny said that now this is “the problem of the guys fighting on the front line, who must be replaced by someone.”

Zaluzhny said that he did not regard the wiretapping found on him as “pressure.”

“I regard it as a war,” the commander-in-chief briefly commented.

“Anything can happen,” he answered when asked whether this is one of the methods of influence in war conditions.

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🇾🇪❌🇹🇼🇮🇱 Evergreen shipping line to stop accepting Israeli cargo, suspend Red Sea route

Taiwanese container shipping line Evergreen said on Monday that it has decided to temporarily stop accepting Israeli cargo with immediate effect and instructed its container ships to suspend navigation through the Red Sea until further notice.

Evergreen added that ships on regional services to Red Sea ports will sail to safe waters nearby and wait for further notification, while container ships which are scheduled to pass through the Red Sea will be rerouted around the Cape of Good Hope to continue their voyages to destination ports.

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