🇦🇺 🇮🇱 ✡️ A Jewish Australian Army officer has been stripped of his Top Secret security clearance by a review tribunal which found he had “divided loyalties” between Australia and Israel and posed an “unacceptable and avoidable risk to security” due to the threat of recruitment by "Mossad".

🔶️ In his defence, the officer told the tribunal that “Zionism is an essential theme within Judaism. Judaism mandates the loyalty of a Jew to his people and to the Land of Israel. The Australian government is aware that every Jew harbours a varying degree of loyalty to Israel. Some have a higher and more overt levels of loyalty than others. This is the latent risk that the Australian government must naturally accept when employing Jews.”

Full judgment: https://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/cases/cth/ARTA/2025/105.html

🔗 Wikileaks

🇹🇼 🇨🇳 🇹🇬 Taiwan detains Chinese-crewed cargo ship after undersea cable damaged

📝 Byron Wan "Togolese-registered, Chinese-linked vessel “Hong Tai 168” (宏泰 168) — which contradicted the name "Hong Tai 58” (宏泰 58) shown by its AIS 👉🏻 a flag of convenience — and its Chinese crew have been detained after the "Taiwan-Penghu No. 3" (臺澎三號) submarine fiber optic cable linking Taiwan and Penghu was severed on Feb 25."

https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/202502250010

🔗 Byron Wan

🇦🇷 🇨🇳 🐟 Argentina Deploys Military As China Leads Fishing Swarm Near Waters

🔶️ Certain Latin American countries, such as Chile, Argentina, Peru, Colombia and Ecuador, are dealing with illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing[i] by the Chinese Distant Water Fleet (DWF) that has led to the depletion of marine reserves, harmed the ecosystem and affected the fishing industry. Additionally, it infringes upon the sovereignty of these countries.

https://www.newsweek.com/argentina-deploys-military-atlantic-fishing-swarm-china-spain-korea-taiwan-2035671

🔗 la exocet