[Lude Press | Dr. Yan Talks] Taiwan sees an outbreak of African swine fever traced back to the CCP, making source-tracing and accountability urgent; the CCP under Xi is trying to take over The Daily Telegraph through shell acquisitions, and the UK has issued an urgent warning to stop it. 10/25/2025

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01｜Trump will attend the Thailand–Cambodia ceasefire signing ceremony, and China has been excluded.
U.S. officials said China’s role in the negotiations was “extremely limited.” In fact, calling it “extremely limited” is already very polite—they didn’t directly say China was actually making things worse behind the scenes.

The signing ceremony will be held during the ASEAN summit in Malaysia, with representatives from multiple countries attending as witnesses. Trump’s presence will raise the international visibility and legitimacy of the agreement.

Back then when Thailand and Cambodia began fighting, only Lude Media and Dr. Yan explained that China was completely blindsided. Both sides were essentially using China’s interests as bargaining chips. Trump called for a halt, and both sides stopped fighting and received tariff reductions as a benefit. At the time, China jumped out to claim credit, saying the ceasefire was the result of its mediation. But now ASEAN is signing the ceasefire agreement—and China wasn’t even invited. That’s a brutal slap in the face.

China has fallen so low that it doesn’t dare question ASEAN about why it wasn’t invited. Instead, it quietly posted an article complaining on Observer.com titled “Trump Wants to Take the Credit; U.S. Officials Chime In: China Contributed Little to the Cambodia–Thailand Ceasefire.”

02｜Taiwan Experiences an Outbreak of “African Swine Fever” Originating from Mainland China; Tracing the Source and Pursuing Accountability Is Now Urgent

Taiwanese friends must find ways to spread our program—right now, X is suppressing us extremely aggressively, and it has already caught the attention of the CIA.

◉ The African Swine Fever outbreak in Taiwan already has clear evidence pointing directly to mainland China as the source.

From the Matsu area, pig carcasses drifting in from the sea have been confirmed positive for African Swine Fever. So far, there have been 20 confirmed ASF-positive floating pig cases: 16 in Kinmen, 3 in Lienchiang, and 1 in New Taipei.

❶ If 20 infected floating pigs have already been found, how many more have gone undetected?

❷ Kinmen and Matsu—places that constantly long to embrace mainland China—are now being used ruthlessly by Beijing as release points for spreading the virus.

❸ Unlike influenza or COVID-19, which are fragile RNA viruses that are easily killed by heat, dryness, or acidity, African Swine Fever is a DNA virus, extremely stable. Even after drifting at sea and being exposed to sunlight, the virus in carcasses can survive for weeks, making them highly effective carriers.

▪︎ In seawater around 20°C, the virus can survive 7–11 days.
▪︎ In seawater around 4°C, it can survive 20–30 days.
▪︎ In river water, it can survive about two weeks.
▪︎ On beaches or in sand/mud, it can survive 30–50 days; under direct sunlight, it can still last 1–3 days.
▪︎ It spreads easily. If the virus reaches healthy pigs—through feed, kitchen waste, or leftover fish scraps used as pig feed—it can trigger an infection.

◉ Taiwan must trace the source now—simply trying to block the virus is not enough. It cannot be stopped that way. I sincerely hope the Lai Ching-te administration will protect Taiwan properly.

Taiwan says it will “strengthen border inspections and tightly prevent the virus from entering.”

But without tracing the source and relying only on inspections, it cannot be contained. And if there is collusion from the inside, then it becomes even easier for the virus to slip through. Remember, even China’s fentanyl shipments can clear U.S. customs—so in Taiwan, where half the political sphere has already tilted toward Beijing, wouldn’t it be even easier?

Why not ask: How did these floating pig carcasses get here? Did the pigs request a sea burial?
Why not check who is sending parcels, packages, and sea-air cargo into Taiwan?

If you only focus on inspecting and blocking, remember: with African Swine Fever, failing to block even once can trigger an outbreak across all of Taiwan.

If Chinese vessels can lower rubber boats and reach Taiwan by sea, why wouldn’t they be able to release dead pigs to drift to Taiwan?

◉ Taiwan says its current pork reserves are “enough for one month of domestic consumption.”
Then the question is: what happens in the second month?
If supply cannot keep up in month two and the outbreak becomes uncontrollable, will people start protesting in the streets or causing chaos in the legislature, accusing the Lai Ching-te administration of incompetence?

◉ The timing of all this is highly suspicious:

The Chinese military–civilian “fused” vessels have conducted thousands of harassment operations around Taiwan in recent months.
Sanae Takaichi—who has said “If Taiwan is in trouble, Japan is in trouble”—has been elected.
U.S. defensive deployments and military exercises around Taiwan’s waters are becoming increasingly complete.
The EU and ASEAN have both fallen out with Beijing.
How could Beijing not be anxious under these circumstances?
Right now, Xi Jinping is desperate to turn the situation around—whether through “weaponizing rare earths,” threatening the U.S. and Germany, or other pressure tactics.

In this context, Beijing’s strategy toward Taiwan is “If we can’t take you now, we’ll destroy you first.” It’s a political smear-and-chaos tactic—throwing filth everywhere—and then using internal collaborators to seize Taiwan from within.

◉ Criteria for judging African Swine Fever (ASF) as an “unrestricted biological weapon”:
ASF has a 100% fatality rate in pigs. Although it currently cannot be directly transmitted to humans, its impact on social stability and the economy is enormous.

It easily achieves a non-militarized attack effect, making it hard for people to recognize it as a military operation.
It creates both economic and psychological disruption.
It forces Taiwan to expend resources—testing, epidemic control, and containment all require vast manpower and materials.
It undermines public confidence in Taiwan’s agricultural and livestock industries.

◉ The CCP is already in the pre-attack probing stage against Taiwan.
What the CCP is doing now is not a full-scale biological warfare invasion, but border-level probing—testing Taiwan’s epidemic-prevention chain and defense system for weaknesses to exploit.

Objectives of these probes:

Assess the speed and weak points of Taiwan’s epidemic-response chain.
Verify whether cross-strait biological transmission is feasible.
Test whether they can create public panic.
See whether they can trigger government dysfunction to the point where the CCP can step in “to help with epidemic control or disaster relief.”
The CCP has long planned for a scenario where they are “invited” into Taiwan under the guise of epidemic control or disaster response — but the ones who enter would be PLA personnel.

◉ The “floating infected pigs” tactic requires internal-external coordination to be effective; otherwise, it cannot be sustained long-term.

Taiwan’s biosafety system is highly advanced; its epidemic-prevention measures are tightly sealed. Pig farms in Taiwan have three layers of biosecurity, so the only way for pigs to get infected is through feed chains or smuggled meat products. African Swine Fever (ASF) pigs cannot jump from the sea onto Taiwan’s shore or into farms on their own.
The 20 floating infected pigs precisely correspond to the Minjiang River mouth drift line in northern Taiwan. If it were naturally spreaded, why haven’t cases appeared in southern or northeastern Taiwan? This clearly indicates a traceable, deliberate release line.
The detected ASF virus belongs to “Genotype 2”, which is highly identical to the CCP’s prevalent strain along the Fujian coast. The source is singular, and releases are repeated.
While the CCP continues releasing infected pigs, they must also collect feedback internally. This cannot be done via public information alone; there must be inside contacts in Taiwan, embedded in monitoring, reporting, and media chains, to gather comprehensive intelligence.
Why did the Taichung authorities not quarantine for over 10 days? Only after over 100 pigs died was the outbreak revealed. Furthermore, at least 28 infected pigs had already reached Changhua and New Taipei. Who allowed these pigs to spread? Could it have been deliberate?
ASF has an incubation period of 4–19 days, and Taiwan is still in the critical latent period. Groundwater has not yet been tested, which adds to the risk.
Reports indicate that local associations are buying imported food from unknown sources, which is highly suspicious.
◉ If Taiwan does not escalate this to a source‑tracing and accountability issue, and only tries to contain the outbreak downstream, it will never be able to stop it — and this is only the beginning.

Taiwan doesn’t dare to say COVID‑19 came from a lab, doesn’t dare to say the “natural origin” narrative is false, and certainly doesn’t dare to touch anything related to “unrestricted biological warfare.” The CCP sees Taiwan’s weakness and appeasement clearly — if African Swine Fever (ASF) can’t be used against the U.S., they will use it against Taiwan.

Right now it is highly suspicious that no one in Taiwan dares mention ASF source‑tracing at all, as if there is some unspoken consensus to avoid the topic.

The authorities only mention the Matsu–Kinmen direction, but they won’t mention the mainland direction, and won’t pursue the origin of the virus. Even when saying the detected virus is Genotype 2, they won’t say clearly that this genotype is the mainland epidemic strain.

Dr. Yan originally didn’t want to say too much about this, assuming Taiwan’s government would understand the stakes. But after days of watching Taiwan’s response and the information coming out, it’s impossible to stay silent.

This is clearly an ASF outbreak — an attack on Taiwan’s food‑chain security — yet Taiwan downgraded it to a mere “food‑safety issue.” How deeply has Taiwan been infiltrated for things to reach this point?

This is absolutely a red‑flag indicator. But Taiwan shows zero reaction from an information‑warfare perspective, zero response from national security, zero action from counter‑intelligence.

Under circumstances like this, how can the U.S. have confidence in deepening intelligence or security cooperation with Taiwan?

◉ Ludes Media and Dr. Yan have always been extremely, extremely concerned about Taiwan’s security. That’s why the CCP pressured Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense to label Ludes Media as a “rumor‑spreading media.”

Taiwan would rather invite someone like Li Xiaomu. Earlier in February, a Taiwan anti‑CCP influencer (Akio Yaita?) did a one‑to‑two‑hour exclusive interview with Li Xiaomu. Li Xiaomu constantly travels to China, operates in both legal and illegal spheres, and is involved in red‑light districts and “honey‑trap” operations in Japan. Yet Taiwan’s anti‑CCP think tanks invited him — what exactly are they trying to learn from him?

The situation in Taiwan is extremely, extremely severe. If Taiwan does not take action, and if President Lai is sidelined or trapped in an information cocoon, this situation is truly worrying.

03｜The CCP attempted a backdoor acquisition of The Daily Telegraph, prompting an urgent response from the UK to block it.

Even though both major political parties in the UK have been heavily infiltrated by the CCP, the country still has mechanisms to save itself. MI5 and MI6 are now mobilizing, the monarchy is reasserting its influence, all pointing to renewed intelligence cooperation between the United States and the United Kingdom. King Charles and the top levels of the Trump administration have established close coordination. No wonder the British monarchy has survived for a thousand years.

◉ On the 24th, Lord Charles Moore, a member of the UK House of Lords, published an article in The Daily Telegraph titled “So, two years on, will a foreign state end up wielding power over The Telegraph?”

Two days earlier, on the 22nd, MP Iain Duncan Smith issued a warning, calling for the release of a Foreign State Intervention Notice. Smith is a China hawk whom the CCP particularly despises and has long sought to discredit.

Lord Moore pointed out that the acquisition process of The Daily Telegraph lacks transparency and is deeply concerning. He suggested that the heavily infiltrated UK government may now be quietly facilitating the CCP’s shell acquisition of The Daily Telegraph.

The Daily Telegraph is the stronghold of conservative media in the United Kingdom.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has already extended its reach into The Daily Telegraph, doing so through multiple layers of shell companies: Abu Dhabi and RedBird Capital. The chairman of RedBird Capital is former Goldman Sachs CEO John Thornton. Lord Moore noted that “John Thornton holds positions in Chinese state organs and is one of Beijing’s most trusted Western intermediaries.”

Several other potential buyers failed to reach agreements over price, while Abu Dhabi and RedBird Capital were willing to pay £500 million; other bidders valued it at £340–500 million. This is reminiscent of Elon Musk’s high-priced purchase of Twitter. If there is a political motive behind this transaction, the CCP is willing to inflate the price to push out competitors.

After two years of delays, the Starmer government is now actively facilitating the acquisition by Abu Dhabi and RedBird Capital. RedBird Capital, as an investment fund, never discloses its investors, which could seriously undermine public trust.

RedBird partners have stated they will pay the full amount and hold the majority of shares. They have also directly threatened The Daily Telegraph’s editorial team: if the staff attempts to investigate the acquisition, RedBird intends to replace the current editor-in-chief team with Matthew Garrahan of the Financial Times (recently criticized for increasingly publishing pro-CCP stories). Garrahan’s political stance conflicts with The Daily Telegraph on multiple issues, including illegal immigration and Brexit.

The Daily Telegraph holds a unique status among newspapers; it has royal recognition— a “Royal Charter”—and any change in ownership must be approved through the Privy Council and the King’s signature. Therefore, the acquisition of The Daily Telegraph cannot simply be pushed through by the Starmer government. Now, the “Royal Prerogative” is poised to intervene.

Lord Charles Moore is revealing that the CCP, using a Middle Eastern financial capital triangle, is attempting to infiltrate the newspaper. UK and US intelligence are fully aware, but the matter has now reached the stage of being publicly flagged through media.

This article serves as a message to the UK Conservative Party and to the monarchy: the nation’s strategic information assets are under CCP threat and urgent action is required. If evidence is presented to the Privy Council and the King showing that Abu Dhabi’s funds and RedBird’s operations are backed by Chinese state money—jeopardizing the independence of UK media—the King can freeze the transaction through a Privy Council directive and require the government to review it. This is not “monarchical interference,” but the exercise of the royal reserve powers over media charters.

Additionally, many of the “signals” in this article are constitutional-level cues indicating that royal intervention is now necessary. Remember, the King has the power to dismiss the Prime Minister and dissolve the Cabinet. At this point, the Starmer government is effectively playing with fire—risking self-destruction similar to Colombia’s Petro.