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LEAKED? Audio of Top-Secret Chinese Meeting for Invading Taiwan

The Times of India is reporting on an alleged unprecedented leak of audio of a top-secret meeting of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and Party leaders which took place on May 14 discussing detailed plans for an attack on Taiwan.

While unconfirmed by western intelligence or other officials, the paper notes that some experts say the audio clip appears authentic. The conservative news site ‘Hot Air’ is also reporting on this hot topic.

This leak could be part of a reported power struggle in Beijing ahead of the 20th Chinese Communist Party (CCP) congress later this year. Some China watchers believe Party Chairman and President of China, Xi Jinping, could be facing challenges to his increasingly totalitarian power.

The congress will decide a slew of new leaders, including the General Secretary of the CCP, and seven to nine members of the standing committee of the Politburo, which forms the core of Communist China’s party-state for the next five years.

Regardless of the motive, if authenticated, this recording would be the first time since the People’s Republic of China was established in 1949 that a recording of a top-secret meeting of a military command has been leaked.

According to the Times, the recording, posted on the Lude Media YouTube channel, shows that the meeting was steered by the hybrid leadership of the critical Guangdong Military District which includes senior military commanders as well as CCP officials.

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https://americandefensenews.com/2022/05/29/leaked-audio-of-top-secret-chinese-meeting-for-invading-taiwan/

FOR A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE ON MOTIVES FOR LEAKED AUDIO - READ THIS PIECE:

‘Meant To Intimidate’: Leaked Audio Of China’s Alleged Taiwan Invasion Plans Could Be A CCP Ploy

Audio recorded during an alleged May 14 Chinese military planning session seemingly revealing China’s invasion plans for Taiwan could be misinformation, according to multiple experts.

The alleged recording of a top-secret People’s Liberation Army meeting by an anonymous Chinese military whistleblower could actually be Chinese Communist Party (CCP) psychological warfare meant to intimidate the U.S., several China experts told The Daily Caller News Foundation.

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https://dailycaller.com/2022/05/27/taiwan-invasion-plan-leaked-audio-steve-yates-jennifer-zeng-lude/

Why Did Police Take So Long to Storm Texas Elementary School Massacre?

ANALYSIS – It reportedly took between 40 minutes and a full hour from the time the crazed 18-year-old gunman, Salvador Ramos, first “encountered” a school district security officer outside the Robb Elementary school in the small community of Uvalde, Texas, to the time he was shot and killed by an ad hoc U.S. Border Patrol tactical team.

There is mixed reporting about whether the gunman exchanged fire with the school security officer.

In that excruciatingly long time, the gunman, armed with an AR-15 rifle, fired on, and injured two responding local police officers, then charged into one classroom and began to kill his civilian victims.

Lt. Christopher Olivarez of the Texas Department of Public Safety told CNN that he quickly “barricaded himself by locking the door and just started shooting children and teachers that were inside that classroom.”

Ramos ultimately murdered 21 innocent people and left at least 17 people wounded. All those killed were in that classroom.

This is the second deadliest shooting at a K-12 school in the U.S. since 26 children and adults were killed at Sandy Hook in 2012.

That is an extremely long time to storm the location with an active shooter. In years past, local police were taught to secure the perimeter and await a SWAT team.

But with all the active-shooter experience American law enforcement has had in recent years, most police forces are now trained to breach immediately to prevent more loss of life.

So, why didn’t local law enforcement do that? And why did it take an improvised federal Border Patrol tactical team to ultimately take Ramos down?

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https://americandefensenews.com/2022/05/26/why-did-police-take-so-long-to-storm-texas-elementary-school-massacre/

Biden Pentagon’s Leftist Politics Causing Loss of Trust in Military – and a Recruiting Crisis

ANALYSIS – Despite the mounting global threats to the United States, and the increasing potential for significant conflict between great powers, the Biden Pentagon can’t understand why it is facing its worst recruiting environment in decades.

It is time they look inward and see how their own leftist policies at the Department of Defense (DoD) are mainly to blame.

While obsessing over woke leftist causes and ‘diverse’ recruits not normally interested in military service, the Pentagon is alienating the vastly greater number of patriotic conservatives who normally fill our military ranks.

At the May 5 Army posture hearing with the Senate Committee on Armed Services, top military leaders sounded the alarm about recruitment. The Christian Post reports:

According to top DoD leadership, this is the most challenging recruiting year since the beginning of the all-volunteer force almost five decades ago. The Army announced that even after being forced to cut 12,000 soldiers, it still cannot fill its ranks. In addition to this, the percentage of young Americans qualified to join the Army is now at the lowest point ever at 23%.

While an increasingly obese, unfit, and mentally unhealthy society is partly to blame for fewer young Americans qualifying physically or mentally for service, the Pentagon itself is a big part of the recruitment problem.

Much of this crisis is caused by a growing lack of trust and confidence in the U.S. military. And much of this among its core recruiting pool – conservative patriotic young Americans.

Currently, only 11% of all those aged 16-21 answered “definitely or probably” in their likelihood to “serve in the military.”

According to a Reagan Institute survey, the percentage of Republican respondents saying, “they had a great deal of confidence in the military,” dropped dramatically from 87% in 2018 to “53% in 2021.”

And look no farther than the current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Mark Milley, for a prime example of why this is happening.

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https://americandefensenews.com/2022/05/25/pentagons-leftist-politics-causing-loss-of-trust-in-military-and-a-recruiting-crisis/

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