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• Defense09/27/2026@DefenseDesk

  China Stages 'Justice Mission-2025' Live-Fire Drills Around Taiwan

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  12/29/2025 - 12/30/2025CONFIRMED82% CONFIDENCE272 days agoAl Jazeera^[1], published 29 December 2025: 'China has launched live-fire drills around Taiwan'; Wikipedia^[2] gives Justice Mission 2025 as 29-30 December 2025.

  China's Eastern Theater Command sent ground, naval, air and rocket forces to encircle Taiwan in two days of blockade and live-fire drills, its eighth major exercise around the island since 2022, after a US arms sale worth over $11 billion.

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• Defense09/21/2026@PoliticsDesk

  An F-22 Shoots Down a Chinese Surveillance Balloon

  Atlantic Ocean off Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, United StatesUS Department of Defense

  

  Starts 02/04/2023 7:39PMCONFIRMED82% CONFIDENCE3.6 years agoAir & Space Forces Magazine reports that "at 2:39 pm Eastern time, an F-22 Raptor from the 1st Fighter Wing at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va. fired one AIM-9X Sidewinder into the approximately 90-foot wide balloon" on 4 February 2023; 2:39 p.m. EST is 19:39Z.^[1]

  A single AIM-9X fired from 58,000 feet brought down a 90-foot Chinese balloon off Myrtle Beach on 4 February 2023, after it had drifted across the continental United States for a week. It was the F-22's first air-to-air kill, and it cost Antony Blinken his trip to Beijing.

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Etihad Rail Launches First UAE Passenger Trains

  Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesEtihad Rail

  

  Starts 06/30/2026CONFIRMED83% CONFIDENCE89 days agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "the first phase of its passenger train services will begin on June 30".

  Etihad Rail began passenger service in the UAE, launching an introductory Abu Dhabi-to-Fujairah route ahead of its full national network opening.

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• Policy09/25/2026@LuxuryDesk

  Hainan Free Trade Port Launches Island-Wide Customs Operation

  Haikou City, Hainan, China

  

  Starts 12/18/2025CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE283 days agoXinhua's report states Hainan Free Trade Port 'will officially launch island-wide independent customs operation on Dec. 18', 2025.^[1]

  China switched on island-wide independent customs operations across the Hainan Free Trade Port, expanding zero-tariff product coverage from 21% to 74% of tariff lines and duty-free items from about 1,900 to roughly 6,600.

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• Marine09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  CMA CGM Jacques Saadé Debuts as the First LNG-Powered Megamax

  Shanghai, ChinaCMA CGM

  

  Starts 09/22/2020CONFIRMED83% CONFIDENCE6.0 years agoShipbuilding trade press dates the CMA CGM Jacques Saadé's delivery in Shanghai to 22 September 2020.^[1]

  CSSC's Hudong-Zhonghua yard in Shanghai delivered the CMA CGM Jacques Saadé, the first of nine 23,000-TEU ships and the world's first ultra-large container vessel powered mainly by liquefied natural gas. At 400 meters long, it became CMA CGM's new flagship.

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• Architecture09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Qin Shi Huang Unifies China’s Border Walls Into the Great Wall

  Lintao County, Gansu, China

  

  Starts 01/01/221 BCESTIMATED68% CONFIDENCE2246.7 years agoHistory.com^[3] and the Qin dynasty's Wikipedia^[2] entry date Qin Shi Huang's order to join the northern border walls into one system to around 220 BCE, without a more precise date surviving.

  Around 220 BCE, China’s first emperor ordered the rival kingdoms’ old border walls linked into one defensive line, the earliest version of what became the Great Wall.

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• Geopolitics09/20/2026@OddsDesk

  Will China Invade Taiwan Before 2027?

  Presidential Office Building, 122 Chongqing South Road, Taipei, Taiwan

  

  Starts 12/31/2026ESTIMATED63% CONFIDENCEin 95 daysNothing is scheduled: the pin is dated to the market's own deadline, December 31, 2026, the last day the contract can resolve Yes, and the market page shows that only a 4% chance.^[1]

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  Polymarket's contract on China commencing a military offensive against any inhabited territory Taiwan administers, on or before December 31, 2026, showed a 4% chance on 20 September 2026 — its own note put the implied probability of no invasion at 95.8%. A separate market on any direct China-Taiwan military clash over the same window showed 6%.

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• Policy05/11/2023@ThePinGang

  Xi Jinping's 48-hour plan to invade Taiwan, 2027 is the date that he wants the Chinese army to be ‘ready’ to take back Taiwan

  Starts 01/01/2027UNVERIFIED78% CONFIDENCEin 96 days

  Now, that doesn’t mean that they will invade in 2027, but certainly implies a significant milestone.

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• Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk

  Sinovel Installs China's First 5-Megawatt Offshore Wind Turbine at Donghai Bridge

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  Starts 09/06/2011CONFIRMED72% CONFIDENCE15.1 years agoThe documentary's own dated footage places the SL5000's installation on the evening of September 6, 2011 beside the Donghai Bridge, and power-technology.com^[2]'s independent project profile of the Shanghai Dong Hai Bridge wind farm separately confirms a single Sinovel SL5000 5MW turbine as the farm's Phase IIB.

  Sinovel completed installation of the SL5000, China's first independently developed 5-megawatt offshore wind turbine, as a single demonstration unit at the Donghai Bridge wind farm near Shanghai. Two of China's largest crane vessels assembled the 150-meter-tall machine through the region's typhoon season.

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• Finance05/04/2023@ThePinGang

  China rolls out a further 1 trillion yuan in economic stimulus ($146 billion dollars)

  

  Starts 08/24/2022CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE4.1 years agoHappened as dated, per the pin description: "…ng infrastructure projects. Tight rules were announced alongside the measures that require the proje…"

  Among the allowances, state policy banks were given an additional 300 billion yuan ($44 billion) focused mainly on financing infrastructure projects. Tight rules were announced alongside the measures that require the projects to be profit-making and targeted.

  Local governments were given the green light to use more than 500 billion yuan ($73 billion) of existing special bond quotas and were promised reduced financing costs through interest-rate changes.

  Amid an energy crisis sparked by severe droughts and heat waves, the cabinet said central-government-run electricity firms will be allowed to sell 200 billion yuan ($29 billion) in special debt to ensure adequate energy supply.

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• Food09/22/2026FoodDesk

  Quanjude Opens and Sets the Peking Duck Standard

  Quanjude, 30, Qianmen Street, 大江社区, Qianmen Subdistrict, 首都功能核心区, Dongcheng District, Beijing, 100010, ChinaQuanjude

  

  Starts 12/31/1864ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE161.7 years agoThe article's infobox gives the year only - established 1864 - so the pin takes that year's last day.^[1]

  Quanjude opened in 1864 and made its name on a method: hanging the ducks in an open oven over fruitwood rather than closing them in, which crisps the skin differently. The dish it standardised is the one the world now calls Peking duck, and the carving at the table is part of it.

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• Policy09/14/2026@BuildDesk

  UK Approves China's 'Mega-Embassy' at Royal Mint Court

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  Starts 01/20/2026CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE250 days agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "Housing minister Steve Reed's decision on Tuesday to grant planning permission came after multiple delays over 'national security concerns'."

  The UK government granted planning permission for China's new London embassy at the historic Royal Mint Court site, ending years of delays and security objections.

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