[Lude Press | Dr. Yan Talks] Chinese-American detective with a United Front background caught posing as Trump’s bodyguard; France raids Russian “shadow fleet,” detains Chinese captain. 10/2/2025

Video link: https://www.youtube.com/live/9GCDUlifHME

01｜Naphtha and the chip industry are key indicators of escalating U.S.-China tensions over Taiwan.
◉ Taiwan became Russia’s largest buyer of naphtha in the first half of 2025, and its fifth-largest buyer of coal.
Since 2022, Taiwan has provided approximately 50 million USD in bilateral aid to Ukraine, while during the same period it imported about 11.2 billion USD worth of fossil fuels from Russia—a striking contrast that casts Taiwan’s international image in an unfavorable light.
Ethylene and propylene cracked from naphtha are crucial upstream materials for Taiwan’s semiconductor and electronics industries.

❶ This first reveals that Taiwan has been financially supporting Russia’s war effort, making it unlikely to escape secondary sanctions.
❷ It also exposes a major security risk in the semiconductor supply chain. Taiwan produces 90% of the world’s chips, yet it maintains close supply links with Russia, creating an extremely high-risk supply chain.
❸ Formosa Petrochemical Corporation (FPCC)’s dependence on Russian naphtha has risen from 9% before the war to about 90% in the first half of 2025. Who has been pushing Taiwan’s major corporations into such tight alignment with Russia? It must be that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has taken control behind the scenes, using Taiwan as a shell to conduct business on its behalf.

◉ This situation echoes the earlier U.S. proposal to “split the Taiwan chip supply chain fifty-fifty” with America. However, Taiwan’s response—voiced by its Deputy Premier—was that it would not make or accept any “fifty-fifty” commitment. Such a stance is highly dangerous.
Taiwan fundamentally misunderstands why the United States proposed this policy.
This indicates that Taiwan’s top leadership, at least up to the Deputy Premier level, has not grasped the real focus of trade discussions with the United States. They are still trying to haggle over chips, showing a very shortsighted view.
Although the U.S. Department of Commerce is the one negotiating with Taiwan, Taiwan still assumes it’s a simple trade negotiation. In reality, this has already become a matter of weapon-grade strategic resources. Even if the United States might protect Taiwan during wartime, the island’s chip industry could still collapse as a result of the conflict. Therefore, America’s actions stem from global semiconductor security considerations.
Taiwan, however, keeps imagining that the United States wants to take away its profitable industry, while the CCP conveniently uses this to stir up anti-American sentiment in Taiwan.
By voluntarily binding its lifeline to the CCP’s economic community of interest—instead of embracing the United States, which can actually provide freedom and security as nations like the Philippines and Israel do—Taiwan appears, in the eyes of the U.S., as ungrateful and even risky. Consequently, when the U.S. formulates strategic plans, it will give Taiwan less consideration, leaving Taiwan caught “between two sides taking blows.”

◉ Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded to the naphtha purchase issue by stating: “Naphtha procurement is currently not a regulated item in Taiwan. State-owned enterprises stopped imports in 2023. If the international community imposes further sanctions on Russia, Taiwan is willing to actively cooperate.”
The exposure of the naphtha purchases clearly represents a diplomatic crisis for Taiwan and may land it on the secondary sanctions list. Yet the Ministry of Foreign Affairs simply shifted blame, saying, “We manage the state-owned sector, but the private sector is beyond our control.”
But do private companies pay taxes? If the Taiwanese government collects taxes from them, does it not also bear responsibility?

02｜Chinese-American Detective with United Front Background Caught Impersonating Trump’s Bodyguard

◉ On September 26, 2025, during the Ryder Cup in New York State, President Donald Trump arrived at the venue to watch the tournament. At the first hole, he appeared from the secured zone and interacted with players from the U.S. team.
That same day, NYPD (New York Police Department) detective Melvin Eng, a 46-year-old Chinese-American officer, was officially on medical leave. Yet he showed up wearing full tactical gear—with live ammunition, a service firearm, and a police badge—claiming to have been assigned to perform a security mission for the visiting President Trump, thereby gaining entry to the event. He has since been suspended and placed under investigation.
CCP–linked overseas media downplayed the incident, claiming he merely wanted to watch the tournament for free.

◉ The situation revealed a major security loophole that allowed Eng to enter armed without detection. Why was there no special identification credential? Why was there no verified personnel roster for the security team?
Being able to reach such close proximity to Trump—within visual shooting range—is, under Secret Service assessment, a “quasi-suicidal” proximity level, even more dangerous than the previous elevator incident. For the Secret Service, this represents a worst-case scenario: a systemic vulnerability exploited internally. Moreover, the breach was exposed only because of Eng’s own mistake; had he not revealed himself, the security flaw might have persisted indefinitely, growing ever more dangerous.
President Trump’s safety in this instance could be described as an act of divine protection—purely a matter of God’s grace and probability.

◉ Why was he exposed by “dropping a magazine”?
One possibility is that during major security operations involving the Secret Service, state police, and NYPD—though they operate at different levels—they typically use standardized weapons and magazines. Eng’s dropped magazine may have differed from the standard issue, which drew attention.
A more likely scenario is that in standard protocol, when a legitimate security member drops equipment, nearby officers are required to verify the individual’s identity, recover the item, register it, and then return it. Eng may have been discovered during that verification process.

◉ Melvin Eng also serves as the president of the NYPD Asian Jade Society, a position he assumed this year.
Visiting the Jade Society’s website immediately shows NYPD participation in various Chinese cultural events—Mid-Autumn Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chinatown parties, and more. The extent of CCP influence within these circles is, as the commentary suggests, beyond question.
CCP-affiliated overseas Chinese networks even reported on Eng’s promotion, This is clearly the CCP’s “Infernal Affairs” strategy, pushing one of its own detectives to continuous promotions..
In a 2020 case, Baimadajiejie Angwang, a community liaison officer in Queens, New York, was arrested for allegedly acting as an illegal agent of the CCP. According to informant “Lei,” Angwang was a Tibetan traitor planted in the NYPD to monitor the Tibetan community. He even invited officials from the Chinese Consulate to attend the Jade Society’s banquets.

◉ This also shows that the CCP has few remaining cards to play. After decades of infiltration through United Front networks, International Liaison Department (ILD), and stowaways in the American south, the regime is now resorting to deploying active-duty police officers and individuals holding significant posts in CCP-linked organizations directly.
With the APEC summit in South Korea approaching, Xi Jinping allegedly dares not meet Trump in person, and instead—according to the claim—may be seeking to exploit this time window to orchestrate an incident, even an assassination attempt against Trump, as a way to “exchange time for space.”

03｜Putin Has Made Another Major Loyalty Offering, Big Enough to Publicly Declare to the World: Russia Seeks Full Restoration of Relations with the United States

Regarding Trump’s remark calling Russia a “paper tiger,” Putin responded: “A paper tiger? So what next? Then we deal with this paper tiger. Since we are fighting against the entire NATO alliance, we are advancing, we feel confident, and we are still a ‘paper tiger’? Then what is NATO itself?”
Putin’s meaning: We are a bear, not a paper tiger, so let’s go deal with that ‘paper tiger,’ the CCP. You Europeans in NATO cozy up to the CCP every day, showing weakness and appeasement—then if you’re not paper tigers, what are you?

04｜France Boards Russian “Shadow Fleet,” Captain Holds Chinese Nationality; Multiple European Countries Face Drone Intrusions.

On September 28, the French Navy intercepted and boarded an oil tanker linked to Russia’s “shadow fleet” off Saint-Nazaire in the Atlantic Ocean. The vessel, now named Boracay, flew the Benin flag. Authorities confirmed that the captain is a Chinese national and have summoned him to stand trial in France in February 2026.

[Commentary] Xi Jinping has long been covertly lurking in the background, attempting to fan the flames of the Russia–Ukraine war. Now Putin is taking the CCP openly to the battlefield—no more hiding. The CCP is sending troops to the Russia–Ukraine front, participating in massacres, providing drones and ammunition, and waging cognitive warfare—yet still trying to stay behind the scenes?
Putin’s response regarding the “shadow fleet” is to distance himself: the captain, the fleet, and the drones are all CCP assets, and have nothing to do with Russia.