(Live Update Historic Biden - Xi Meeting) Xi Jinping attend G20 and meet Biden in Indonesia
(Emergency Info)
8.54 pm Warsaw / 9.54 pm Kyiv / 10.54 pm Moscow / 3.54 pm Washington DC / (Nov 16th) 3.54 am Bali
Brig. Gen. Patrick S. Ryder (Dir Public Affairs, Pentagon):
When it comes to our security commitments and Article 5, we have been crystal clear: we will defend every inch of NATO territory. Poland could opt to invoke Article 5 of "collective defense" that an attack on one is an attack on all. Poland has another option: Article 4 about consultation.
Poland has a RAT-31DL radar at Łabunie, which is tied into NATO's Integrated Air Defense. RAT-31DL has a range of 500 km. Łabunie is 40 km from Przewodów, where the missiles exploded.
8.08 pm Warsaw / 9.08 pm Kyiv / 10.08 pm Moscow / 3.08 pm Washington DC / (Nov 16th) 3.08 am Bali
Missiles hit Przewodów are most likely remains of [Russian] rockets shot down by Armed Forces of Ukraine.
5.49 pm Warsaw / 6.49 pm Kyiv / 7.49 pm Moscow / 12.49 pm DC / (Nov 16th) 0.49 am Bali
Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki has called an urgent / emergency meeting
5 pm Warsaw / 6 pm Kyiv / 7 pm Moscow / 12 pm Washington DC / (Nov 16th) 0.00 am Bali
2 missiles hit [Poland] Przewodów, Lublin, Poland - Ukraine border. 2 died. Source: Mariusz Gierszewski from Radio ZET Poland
5 pm Warsaw / 6 pm Kyiv / 7 pm Moscow / 12 pm Washington DC / (Nov 16th) 0.00 am Bali
Same hour, Kyiv tonight hit around 100 missiles. Only Kyiv. No data (missiles hit other cities in Ukraine)
5 pm Warsaw / 6 pm Kyiv / 7 pm Moscow / 12 pm Washington DC / (Nov 16th) 0.00 am Bali
Strike to Poland Przewodów and Kyiv only minutes after Foreign Minister Russia Lavrov leave Bali (G20)
9 am Warsaw / 10 am Warsaw / 11 am Warsaw / 4 am Washington DC / 4 pm Bali
Biden immediately met up with Erdogan (margin / sideline meeting / corridor talk). Agenda: Istiklal bomb, Grain Access in Black Sea, open communication line with Putin (Erdogan mediator NATO, Ukraine & Russia)
(Nov 14th) 10 pm DC / (Nov 15th) 10 am Bali
Lavrov stayed in his seat for Zelenskiy's virtual speech to G20 Leaders. Zelensky says G19 (not G20), to laughing Lavrov presents in G20. Then others stayed in theirs for Lavrov's, in which he said he had to respond to Zelenskiy and repeated false claims about fighting neo-Nazis in Ukraine.
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Monday Nov 14th
Dir. CIA William Burns met up secretly in Ankara, with Dir. SVR Sergey Naryshkin.
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In marathon despite surge (again) coronavirus, Xi Jinping attend G20 Summit. Xi visit Indonesia (G20), Thailand (APEC), and Saudi, then Biden will set up a Corridor Talk with Xi in Indonesia. But, whatever Agreement China - U.S., Taiwan belong to Taiwanese. (Detail, footages about G20 in Indonesia, pelase scroll)
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen said on Saturday (Nov 12nd) her mission in life was to ensure the island continued to belong to its people and that Taiwan's existence was a provocation to no one, in a fiery pre-election rebuff to China.
Taiwan's Nov. 26 local elections come a month after Chinese President Xi Jinping, who has ramped up military pressure on the democratically-governed island to accept Beijing's sovereignty, secured a precedent-breaking third leadership term.
While the vote for mayors and councillors is nominally about domestic issues, Tsai told thousands of cheering supporters at a rally in central Taipei that much more was at stake, the first time she has so explicitly gone after China in this campaign.
Tsai said she had not "surrendered" to Xi's "one country, two systems" proposal for autonomy under Chinese sovereignty and that under her leadership more and more countries regard Taiwan's democracy and security as the key to the peace.
"I want to tell everyone that the existence of Taiwan and Taiwanese people's insistence on freedom and democracy are not a provocation to anyone," she said at the rally for her ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP).
"As President, my calling is to make every effort to let Taiwan still be the Taiwan of the Taiwanese people."
China staged war games near Taiwan in August after U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taipei, and has since continued military activities nearby including almost daily fighter jet crossings of the sensitive median line in the narrow Taiwan Strait.
U.S. President Joe Biden will meet Xi next week, with Taiwan on the agenda, according to the White House.
While Tsai and the DPP swept the 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections, the main opposition party the Kuomintang (KMT) made strong gains in the last local elections in 2018.
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The poll in two weeks' time will be a test for both parties ahead of Taiwan's next presidential and parliamentary vote, in early 2024.
The KMT, which ruled China before fleeing to Taiwan at the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949, traditionally favours close relations with Beijing, which has left it open to DPP attacks it will sell out the island to China's Communist Party.
The KMT denies this but could not shake the accusations ahead of the 2020 elections, leading to the DPP landslide.
Speaking at a KMT election rally in neighbouring New Taipei on Saturday, its chairman Eric Chu said their mission was to protect Taiwan's freedom and democracy.
"The most important goal is that everyone can have a peaceful and stable future," he said.
No Putin in Bali. Jokowi as a Chairmanship G20 this year actually invite Zelensky as a “Guest Honor”. Zelensky was saying that if Putin attend G20 Indonesia, he refuse to attend too, in the wake of Russia - Ukraine war. So, the biggest spotlight goes to Xi Jinping and Biden.
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G20, Margin Meeting / Sideline Meeting / Corridor Talk (only minutes or 2-3 hours):
Tuesday Nov 15th
Indonesia - India
Saudi - China
Saudi - Turkiye
China - France
China - Australia
China - Canada
France - India
France - Turkiye
U.S. - Turkiye
Indonesia - U.S. - India - Japan
U.S. - Italy
U.S. - India
India - UK
Indonesia - UAE
Turkiye - French - UAE
UK - Germany
Germany - France
Senegal - India
Germany - Australia
Spain - Australia
India - Netherland
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Monday Nov 14th
Indonesia - U.S.
China - U.S.
Canada - Japan - UK
Canada - UK
Indonesia - South Korea
U.S. - South Korea
Japan - Indonesia
EU - Indonesia
Indonesia - Australia
Indonesia - Turkiye
