📖 🇨🇳 🇹🇼 Xi’s great purge is pre-war mobilisation strategy: Zhao Lanjian | Oct 26, 2025

In real conflicts—such as the China–India border clashes—this essence is revealed: rigid command, paralyzed decision-making, fear-driven passivity.

To prepare for a Taiwan conflict, Xi is turning China into a wartime society — where soldiers, intellectuals, businessmen, and civilians operate under one command structure.

https://sundayguardianlive.com/world/xis-great-purge-is-pre-war-mobilisation-strategy-zhao-lanjian-158136/

🛢 🇺🇸 🇮🇶 U.S. threatens to block Iraq's access to its own oil revenue held in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York if representatives of Shia Resistance parties are included in the next government, Reuters reported.

"The US warning was delivered repeatedly over the past two months by the US Charges d'Affaires in Baghdad, Joshua Harris, in conversations with Iraqi officials and influential Shi'ite leaders," Reuters reported, citing three Iraqi officials and one source familiar with the matter.

Some Shia political parties, including several that make up the Coordination Framework (CF), are linked to the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), anti-terror militias formed in 2014 with Iranian support to fight ISIS and later incorporated into the Iraqi armed forces.

Iraq held parliamentary elections in November and is still in the process of forming the next government.

Prime Minister Muhammad Shia al-Sudani, who enjoyed good relations with both Washington and Tehran, has decided not to contend for another term as premier.

The decision has cleared the way for Nouri al-Maliki, of the State of Law Coalition and the Dawa Party, to potentially return to power. 

Maliki, who enjoys support from the PMU-linked parties, served as prime minister between 2006 and 2014, including when ISIS invaded western Iraq and conquered large swathes of the country. 

Officials in Washington can threaten Baghdad in this way because the country was forced to place all revenues from oil sales into an account at the New York Fed following the US military's invasion of the country in 2003.

This gives Washington strong leverage against Baghdad, as oil revenue accounts for 90 percent of the Iraqi government's budget.

https://thecradle.co/articles-id/35571

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