💬 🇨🇳 Xi Jinping on Taiwan:

China's development will bring about prosperity for all through the common progress of all its regions and the Chinese nation, on the basis of completing the reunification of the motherland.

#️⃣ 🇺🇦 Ukraine's population has dropped 45% since independence — from 52 million to around 29 million living on Kyiv-controlled territory.

Nearly 7 million are refugees abroad, and the number wanting to return has fallen below 50% for the first time.

The country loses an estimated 100,000-150,000 people monthly to long-term emigration — far more than battlefield casualties.

Birth rates have hit a record low of 0.9 children per woman, with deaths nearly three times higher than births.

As one demographer put it:

There will never be 52 million of us again. We need to plan around 30 million.

💬 🇨🇳 China's Foreign Ministry to Japan:

Only by facing up to and learning lessons from history can one avoid repeating past mistakes.

We once again urge those running the Japanese government to heed the just call from home and abroad, deeply reflect on its war crimes, make a clean break with militarism, and stop going further down the wrong path.

💬 🇺🇸 Trump:

The number one Goal is, and always will be, that Iran cannot have, in any way, shape, or form, a Nuclear Weapon. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

💥 ASTRONOMERS HAVE DISCOVERED A "BLACK HOLE STAR" — A POSSIBLE NEW TYPE OF COSMIC OBJECT.

The object, known as MoM-BH-1*, is roughly the size of our Solar System and shines 100 billion times brighter than ordinary stars.

At its center is believed to be a black hole with the mass of around 100,000 Suns, surrounded by a massive hydrogen cocoon.

The object was discovered using the James Webb Space Telescope and could help explain the mysterious "little red dots" observed in the early Universe.

#️⃣ 🇨🇳 CHINA HAS CREATED A ROBOT THAT OUTPERFORMS THE WORLD'S TOP ATHLETES IN JUMPING AND RUNNING.

The Unitree Superman can reportedly jump more than 2 meters from a standing position, surpassing the human record of 1.90 meters.

It can also reach 45 km/h, slightly faster than Usain Bolt's recorded top speed of around 44.7 km/h.

The humanoid robot is set to compete in the Robot Olympics in Beijing this weekend.

💬 🇺🇸 Trump to Fox News:

If Oman gets in the way, we will bomb the shit out of them.

💬 🇺🇸 Trump to Fox News:

What we have used (munitions) so far is peanuts.

💬 🇺🇸 Trump to Fox News:

Iran should raise the white flag of surrender.

They’re good poker players, but they’re dying.

#️⃣ 🇮🇷 A senior Iranian official told Reuters Iran will not tolerate the U.S. naval blockade indefinitely and will communicate its deadline to Washington and regional countries through mediators.

#️⃣ 🇮🇷 A senior Iranian official tells Reuters that Tehran is shifting from a defensive to a "fully offensive" policy, giving the US "a few weeks" to implement the peace deal:

All Iranian entities will be prepared to escalate tensions in the Strait of Hormuz and the region if diplomacy fails.

Iran will not wait for the U.S. to continue the naval blockade indefinitely.

#️⃣ 🇮🇷 Iran seized a UAE-owned tanker near Qeshm in the Strait of Hormuz.

- Fars

#️⃣ 🇨🇳🇺🇸 Chinese President Xi Jinping will fly into the US on September 23, hold one day of White House meetings with Trump on September 24, and leave September 25.

Xi will skip the UN General Assembly entirely.

It will be his first US state visit in 11 years.

The agenda is expected to cover trade, Taiwan, AI, and the Iran/Hormuz situation.

💬 🇺🇸 Trump blasts South Korea:

I called the president of South Korea. I said, “Would you help with Iran? If you would like, we don’t need help.” He said, “No thanks.”

I said, “What do you mean? We have 39,000 soldiers over there guarding you from Kim Jong Un, and you are not going to help us with Iran? That’s strange.”

Then why are we involved with helping you? Protecting South Korea is costing us billions of dollars.

💬 🇺🇸 Trump on Iran:

I like the idea of declaring the Strait of Hormuz a U.S. territory.

We have total control over the Strait.

💬 🇺🇸 Jared Kushner on Iran:

Right now, the Iranians are not showing any interest in doing something that makes sense for us.

💬 🇮🇷 Iran's Ghalibaf:

The Strait of Hormuz will remain closed until the blockade and oil sanctions are lifted, Iran’s frozen assets are released, and military operations end.

💬 🇮🇷 Iran's Ghalibaf:

The enemy is looking for an opportunity to create chaos and combine it with military operations, such as terror and separatist actions, which are completed with cognitive warfare.

In order to operationalize this conspiracy, the enemy has planned to take advantage of the government's measures to reduce gasoline consumption.

Therefore, it is necessary to solve the problem of gasoline shortage with comprehensive and very clever planning.

#️⃣ 🇪🇬 Egypt warned it "will not allow Ethiopia to impose a fait accompli on the Nile," after Ethiopia's Water Minister said downstream water flows would be "under Ethiopia's control" alone.

Egypt stated it has "multiple and diverse means" to defend its Nile rights, adding that "illusions of controlling the Nile contradict the rules of international law."

#️⃣ Taiwan is giving every citizen ~$314 cash, calling it an "AI dividend" from its booming semiconductor-driven economy.

First-half growth hit 14.15% — strongest in 50 years.

Defense spending also hits a record, crossing 3% of GDP for the first time.