Happy New Year!  ‘Tis the season for flapdoodle!  Team Trump keeps the North Korea pot boiling over the holidays with a PRC oil sale accusation!  Taiwan tiptoes into the Quad!  Maybe we’ll be calling it the Quint or the Quad and a Half soon!  Japan’s Okinotoroshima Island, the secret shame of lawfare, creeps back into the Asia equation.  And alert Fox News!  the Chinese Communist Party’s war on Christmas is real!

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Show notes

Chinese Ships Spotted Selling Oil to North Korea

South Korea Seizes Ship Suspected of At-Sea Oil Transfer to Benefit North Korea

China Denies Involvement in Illicit Oil Shipments to North Korea

Taiwan passes ‘transitional justice law’ to review Chinese Nationalist Party record

Island Games: Okinotoroshima Edition

Japan and Taiwan sign memorandum of understanding on search and rescue, but fishing dispute remains unresolved

Hunan Hengyang: Party Cadres Should Turn Not Observing Foreign Holidays Into a Conscious Activity (in Chinese)

The Sellout in Oz My China Watch special report on the most consequential and under-reported Asia story of the year: the coordinated US-Australian deep state campaign to deny Australia an independent or pro-PRC foreign policy

General MacArthur’s Conspiracy to Start a War with China! New Documentary Release & Interview! For purchase at Newsbud Store or for Purchase or View via Amazon or Vimeo

Douglas MacArthur made the first US attempt to parlay a Korean crisis into an existential confrontation with the People’s Republic of China.  With the US milsec establishment, his ideas are more popular—and dangerous—than ever.  My documentary uses first hand testimony and declassified archives to finally reveal the truth behind this long-suppressed event.