 China prepares for open war with Taiwan, Taipei's Defense Ministry reveals Beijing's plan. China has increased military pressure on Taiwan in the so-called grey zone. Beijing saturates the areas around the island with balloons, drones and civilian ships. The Chinese are trying to exhaust the enemy before starting an open war. According to Reuters, citing a report by the Ministry of Defense of Taiwan, China is trying to exhaust the enemy without resorting to an open military confrontation. The document reads that the China uses the tactics of a multi-front saturated grey zone to deplete Taiwan, which includes increased patrolling with vessels and aircraft. China has attempted to increase the burden on our naval and air forces and conceal the existence of a median line in the strait. The report reads it's about the situation on the unofficial border between China and Taiwan. Chinese troops have regularly crossed it in recent years. China also uses research and military vessels, disguising military activities as civilian ones. Taiwan's Defense Ministry said it is working on measures aimed at preserving its troops in case of war, increasing the resilience of infrastructure and conducting exercises to ensure the survival of Taiwanese troops in a protracted conflict. In addition, the Taipei military department is stockpiling weapons and fuel to withstand a long war with China. The Ministry noted that it is analysing and drawing lessons from Russia's war against Ukraine and the military actions of Israel and Hamas. Taiwan's Ministry of Defense believes that China will try to seize Taiwan to prevent external interference quickly. Taipei is trying to disperse its command systems and introduce more long-range and mobile weapons and artificial intelligence. The island also strengthens ties with democratic allies, including the US. Biden considers sending US Army's money to Ukraine. The US government is considering tapping the US Army budget to provide Ukraine with much-needed military aid Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. One of the sources told the news agency that a final decision has yet to be made. The sum reportedly sought by the White House in the Pentagon reserves around $200 million is a small fraction of the $61 billion worth of Ukraine aid President Biden has been requesting from Congress. The President will once again urge legislators to approve new assistance for Kiev during his State of the Union address Bloomberg said. The Senate backed the aid package last month but it is now stalled in the White House due to political infighting. House Republicans have so far refused to back Biden's bill hoping to pressure the President into enacting tougher measures to deal with the influx of illegal migrants crossing the border with Mexico. The hold-up in Congress is occurring at a crucial time for Ukraine whose troops have been forced to retreat from several key positions in the Donbas in recent weeks. President Volodymyr Zelensky and other officials in Kiev have cited the shortages in ammunition and other equipment as reasons behind the losses on the battlefield for nearly half a year. The US Congress has failed to pass legislation to send weapons to Ukraine. Speaker Mike Johnson continues to be the steadfast roadblock arguing that aid for Ukraine will not be considered until an immigration deal is passed something that has failed to gain traction with congressional Democrats. The terrible war between Russia and Ukraine has started on the territory of Sudan. When Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Sudan's military ruler, found himself besieged by rebel forces in the country's capital last summer he called an unlikely ally for help. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky according to the Wall Street Journal it is noted that Zelensky had reasons to take the request seriously. Burhan had been quietly supplying Kiev with weapons since shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 according to Ukrainian and Sudanese military officials. In addition, the Sudanese rebels were backed by Russia's Wagner paramilitary group which has also mined gold in the country and used it to fund Moscow's war in Ukraine. Ukrainian Timur special forces are active in the civil war in Sudan. Not much information is available in the public domain about the Ukrainian military's presence in Sudan. Matthew Orr, Eurasia analyst at the Risk Intelligence Company, Rain told the New Arab. Sudan's brutal war between the Sudanese armed forces under Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitary rapid support forces led by Mohammed Hamdan Hamed T. Dagalo erupted last April. It has since killed over 10,000 people, displaced 6 million within the country and caused another 1.7 million to flee to neighboring countries. Less than a week into the war, reports emerged that Wagner Group supplied the rapid support forces with surface-to-air missiles. There were also indications in September that Ukrainian special services were operating in Sudan targeting Wagner and the rapid support forces. Sudan would be a strategically logical target for Russian mercenaries' activities as neighboring Central African Republic is one of the places where Russian mercenaries under the Russia's main directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces are most active while ensuring access to Sudan would fit within Russia's broader Sahelian strategy, or said. On the other hand, the strategic usefulness of Ukraine's activities is dubious since it needs all available resources to defend its own territory. Nevertheless, Ukraine doesn't necessarily see it that way. Kiev likely believes that the few resources spent exaggerating the mere threat of such attacks on Russian interests in Sudan open the possibility of similar attacks across Russian activities in the Middle East and Africa forcing Moscow to expand disproportionate resources to secure against such activities in new geographies, or said.