Implausible Deniability

🇨🇳🇺🇸🇹🇼⚡️ — China has privately warned that the enormous $11.1 billion arms package to Taiwan could jeopardize President Trump’s planned April meeting with President Xi Jinping, with Xi urging Washington to handle Taiwan arms sales “with prudence,” according to FT. ➡️ Some U.S. officials believe Beijing may be bluffing, though others suggest Trump could delay notifying Congress until after the visit. The large $11.1 billion arms package for Taiwan was approved back in December 2025.

🇪🇸⚡️ — Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez: Why do they want to control mobile phones? They want to control phones because they want to know what we read and what we see so that later they can know, and control, what we vote for. That is why, when we have made proposals that are simply common sense, with nothing ideological about them, proposals to give extra protection to children under 16 from all that vulgarity, those lies, that disinformation, that hatred and violence that so often appear on phones and digital devices—the response from those tech oligarchs has been hatred, lies, and more vulgarity.