CCP Launches Live-Fire Drills Around Taiwan; FBI May Denaturalize Somali Scammers
Crossroads with Joshua Philipp
The Epoch Times
4.9 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has now surrounded Taiwan with warships and is holding live-fire exercises. The move is directed at U.S. support for Taiwan and is taking place as the CCP pushes its agenda to take the island by force.
In other news, the FBI is focusing on the Somali scam rings in Minnesota, and in a new update announced that fraudsters of Somali origin who have become American citizens may be denaturalized and deported.
We’ll discuss these topics, and others, in this episode of Crossroads.
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| 0:00.0 | The Chinese Communist Party surrounded Taiwan with warships and is holding live fire military exercises |
| 0:05.8 | around the island, and this move is directed at U.S. support for Taiwan. In other news, |
| 0:10.9 | the FBI is focusing on these Somali scam rings in Minnesota, and in a new update, |
| 0:17.5 | even announced they're looking at American citizens for possible denaturalization and |
| 0:22.6 | deportation. Also, with the midterms coming up, there's an effort to redo the census to ensure |
| 0:28.5 | that non-citizens are not counted. This could have a huge impact on the number of house seats. |
| 0:35.1 | I'll be talking about these topics and a lot more today. And before we |
| 0:38.6 | begin, don't forget to subscribe to this podcast and also leave a review if you've been enjoying |
| 0:43.7 | the show. I'm the Epitimes Senior Investigator reporter Joshua Phillip and you're listening to |
| 0:48.6 | Crossroads. The Chinese Communist Party has now surrounded Taiwan with warships. |
| 0:59.0 | They're holding live fire exercises all around the island, and they're saying this is |
| 1:03.0 | because the United States is supporting Taiwan. |
| 1:06.0 | Most importantly, this also happens as, well, the US is, let's say, seizing oil shipments around Venezuela. |
| 1:13.1 | Some are tying this together. Some are suggesting maybe something else. |
| 1:16.8 | This also happens as the Chinese Communist Party is pushing its agenda to take Taiwan by force. |
| 1:22.9 | I'll explain my take on it. |
| 1:24.8 | But first, let me show you what the surface news is. |
| 1:27.0 | Fox News says, China on Monday |
| 1:29.2 | launched its largest military exercises ever around Taiwan. This is important because even Trump said |
| 1:38.5 | yesterday, he was asked about, hey, China has surrounded Taiwan. They're holding military exercises. |
| 1:44.9 | Trump says, yeah, they hold military exercises around Taiwan all the time. |
| 1:49.3 | He kind of didn't seem too concerned about it. |
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