What We’re Watching: China targets Taiwan, Palestinian election heats up, Russia-Ukra

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#1 - What We’re Watching: China targets Taiwan, Palestinian election heats up, Russia-Ukraine border tensions
By: Carlos - Gabrielle & Alex of GZERO News - 04-01-21
Re: https://www.gzeromedia.com/the-graph...on-china-vs-us

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Chinese jets swarm Taiwan: This week, multiple Chinese warplanes penetrated Taiwan's airspace. While Beijing does this quite often to flex its muscles, this time the jets took a different route, and one even got close to the Japanese island of Yonaguni, located less than 70 miles (113 kilometers) north of Taiwan. The maneuvers have been interpreted by experts as a direct warning from the Chinese to Japan not to overplay its hand. (It's worth noting that Tokyo could get dragged into a US conflict with China over Taiwan because, like Taiwan, it has a mutual defense treaty with the US.) More broadly, the flight patterns also indicate that China could surround Taiwan on three sides in an eventual invasion, cutting off the territory from US and Japanese military support. All this comes as the Biden administration has expressed serious concern (paywall) that Beijing is indeed planning to invade Taiwan in the very near term. With US-China relations getting hot, more rumblings over an invasion of Taiwan will surely turn the temperature even higher.

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#2 - Italy’s dysfunctional politics
April 01, 2021 GZERO Staff
Re: https://www.gzeromedia.com/gzero-wor...ional-politics

Italy's economy was already weak before the pandemic, but saw a nearly 9-point decline in GDP over the past year. While unemployment was dropping from a decade high reached in 2014, it was still around 10% in early 2020. And if you don't like Italy's political leaders…just wait a minute. They'll change. In fact, since 1989 the country has had 18 prime ministers. By comparison, Germany has had only three chancellors and France just five presidents. Can Italy's new Prime Minister pull the country out of its political tailspin? Ian Bremmer explains on GZERO World.

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#3 - Train Crash In Taiwan Kills At Least 48
By: Adam Elrashidi - NEWSY News -04-02-21
Re: https://www.newsy.com/stories/train-...s-at-least-48/

At least 48 people are dead and dozens are injured.
A train crash in eastern Taiwan today has killed at least 48 people and injured dozens of others.

Nearly 500 passengers were on board when a work site truck slid downhill onto the track, hitting the train and causing it to derail.

Some survivors had to escape by walking on the roof of the damaged train, which had partially exited a tunnel.

The accident coincided with the start of a long holiday weekend in Taiwan, and is the worst to happen on the island in decades.

(Note: Over many years India has had alot of train accidents - (Boats)