Today we launch #IPAC #standtogether

Vestas CEO: “Five years ago, Chinese authorities barred Vestas from monitoring or running its own software on turbines. If European software isn’t welcome in China, why should Chinese software and turbines be welcome in Europe’s grid?” fortune.com/2026/10/02/vesta…

Germany just arrested its former spy chief: He is being accused of espionage for “foreign powers.” bild.de/politik/spionageverd…

This is what internalised postmodernism produces: erase the distinction between good and evil, then explain away aggression as the natural behaviour of great powers. Hitler’s Germany invaded Poland; Putin’s Russia invaded Ukraine. Apparently, that is simply what great powers do. By this logic, responsibility shifts to the victims for refusing to surrender. Those foolish Poles and Ukrainians, wanting to defend their ridiculous little countries. But surrender did not protect the Polish officers murdered at Katyń. They were already Soviet prisoners, disarmed and incapable of resistance, when the Soviet authorities ordered their execution. Auschwitz exposes another flaw in this reasoning. People were deported there and murdered because of who they were, above all because they were Jews- not because they had chosen to fight. Their extermination was a deliberate Nazi policy, not a consequence of their refusal to surrender. Neither surrender nor the absence of resistance guaranteed survival. Any argument that blames resistance for the loss of innocent lives must confront that fact. Carlson refuses to weigh lives saved when judging those fighting aggression, yet treats aggression itself as ordinary great-power behaviour. He demands absolute restraint from those confronting aggressors while granting the aggressors the excuse of geopolitical necessity. His logic collapses: great powers are excused for starting wars, while their victims are blamed for resisting. What a repulsive character.

Jimmy Lai's name came up at last week's Trump-Xi summit. President Trump told @DailySignal he discussed political prisoners with Xi Jinping, including Jimmy. "I think we had some very, very important discussions," he said. Jimmy is 78 and has spent nearly 6 years in prison. He is serving a 20-year sentence. Read here: dailysignal.com/2026/09/30/t… #FreeJimmyLai #BringHimHome

Recent political prisoner releases in Belarus are welcome. But more than 800 people remain arbitrarily detained, and the Lukashenka regime continues to imprison people for dissent. Freedom House CEO @jamiemfly explains why the international community cannot lose sight of those still behind bars and why a free Belarus matters for Belarusians, Ukraine, and European security. Read his remarks: freedomhouse.org/article/bel…

No more naivety on China. Europe must defend its own interests. We must strengthen trade defence instruments, diversify crucial supply chains, reduce raw material dependencies, ratify trade agreements, and boost Europe’s competitiveness at home.

The Trump / Xi summit highlights the fundamental problem the West faces with China. Trump does people. Xi does strategy. Trump believes a personal relationship can deliver a deal, whilst China looks decades ahead and never loses sight of its objective to become the world’s dominant economic and military power. lbc.co.uk/videos/2JsSfFaPPWc… While the West talks, China is building its military at an extraordinary rate, backing Russia and Iran and increasing the threat to Taiwan. Britain and Europe have allowed our defences to become dangerously weak We have relied on America for our defence for far too long, failed to invest in our own capability and diminished our influence as a result. If we want a seat at the table, we have to earn it. China has a strategy for the West and knows where it is going. The question is whether the West has the resolve to respond.

BREAKING: Officials on all sides who have been briefed on the US-Denmark-Greenland deal tell me they are happy with the details. A senior State Department official and a regional official briefed on the deal say the highlights are: - Provides US permanent basing, access, and overflight rights - Bans non-NATO bases - Screening mechanism for investments that would allow a block on Chinese, Russian investments - Greenland population can choose its political future - No territory transferred to the US

Claire Lai has been diagnosed with cancer at 30. She has started chemotherapy, and for at least four months she can't travel to advocate for her father. Jimmy Lai has been in prison for nearly 6 years. Time is not on his side. "Four months for someone my age is not a long time but four months for my dad is." Read here: thetimes.com/article/80d7e46… #FreeJimmyLai #BringHimHome @thetimes

MAHIYA NAMAN KAYO | Secretary of National Defense Gilberto C. Teodoro, Jr. responded to a note from the Chinese side during the Seoul Defense Dialogue (SDD) 2026 in Seoul, Republic of Korea. #DNDPHL #DiKaPasisiil #SDD2026

Two key organizers behind what used to be the only large-scale public commemoration for the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre on Chinese soil have been found guilty of inciting subversion by a court in Hong Kong. cnn.it/4cTNH3s

Big breaking news from Chinese media: CCTV says Beijing has ordered entities not ‌to ​implement or assist with the ⁠EU's foreign subsidies probe into e-commerce giant JD.com, saying it constituted "improper extraterritorial jurisdiction"