China's Invasion Barges Seen Operating in Shocking Photos

What could be a piece of China’s invasion plans for Taiwan has apparently fallen into place, as so-called “invasion barges” have now been seen in operation.

Video circulating on social media showed three barges, according to the War Zone.

“Each barge has a very long road span, which is extended out from the front. At over 120 meters (393 ft), this can be used to reach a coastal road or hard surface beyond a beach. At the aft end is an open platform, which allows other ships to dock and unload,” Naval News wrote.

“Some of the barges have ‘jack up’ pillars, which can be lowered to provide a stable platform even in poor weather. In operation the barge would act as a pier to allow the unloading of trucks and tanks from cargo ships,” the outlet wrote.

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China's Invasion Barges Seen Operating in Shocking Photos

New images show what could be a key piece of China's plan to invade Taiwan, something experts fear could take place soon.

www.westernjournal.com

 

[KMendel]

This sounds pretty darned ominous, doesn't it???

 

[Margery]

That's like the preparations we watched from Russia before Biden took office and Putin invaded Ukraine. Everyone was trying to put a good spin on it. It was exactly what it looked like. The preparation for invasion.

I think China has been preparing and testing for some time, and they may feel that there are enough distractions around the world for America to focus on, to divide resources on, that they are safe in trying to take Taiwan.

The purpose of all that Chinese stuff in Australian waters was in my opinion to see how Trump and America would respond. Before that the balloons over North America. That was both a test of response, AND a spy operation in progress. Not shot down till they sent the data they gathered home to China. Along with buying farmland near US bases in the States.

Edited to add, and China is completing a takeover of Canada via Mark Carney's ties along with Trudeau to Chinese gangs and interference in our elections including the Liberal election of Carney as the new leader.

This is now in the full preparation mode to take over Taiwan.

 

[1LoverofGod]

That's like the preparations we watched from Russia before Biden took office and Putin invaded Ukraine. Everyone was trying to put a good spin on it. It was exactly what it looked like. The preparation for invasion.

I think China has been preparing and testing for some time, and they may feel that there are enough distractions around the world for America to focus on, to divide resources on, that they are safe in trying to take Taiwan.

The purpose of all that Chinese stuff in Australian waters was in my opinion to see how Trump and America would respond. Before that the balloons over North America. That was both a test of response, AND a spy operation in progress. Not shot down till they sent the data they gathered home to China. Along with buying farmland near US bases in the States.

Edited to add, and China is completing a takeover of Canada via Mark Carney's ties along with Trudeau to Chinese gangs and interference in our elections including the Liberal election of Carney as the new leader.

This is now in the full preparation mode to take over Taiwan.

I think the US and other allies are prepared in case China does act.

The following article is from this past January....

(While I'm sure these are routine drills, I'm also sure they're keeping on their toes with China's threat to invade Taiwan and keeping an eye on other threats like North Korea.)

Philippine, U.S. Hold First 2025 Joint Patrol in South China Sea​

SOUTH CHINA SEA – The Armed Forces of the Philippines and the U.S. Navy conducted a bilateral Maritime Cooperative Activity (MCA) in the South China Sea, Jan. 17-18, 2025.

MCAs demonstrate a collective commitment to strengthening regional and international cooperation in support of a free and open Indo-Pacific. This MCA is designed to emphasize our longstanding partnership between the two militaries in the maritime domain.

Naval News Comments:

This maritime cooperative activity between the Philippine and U.S. navies marks the first activity between the two nations in the South China Sea in 2025. It also is the first to fully include a carrier strike group, as a joint patrol planned around this time last year was cancelled due to an “operational necessity” on the American side. Coincidentally, these drills are taking place amid an almost two-week-long show down between Philippine and China Coast Guard ships off Luzon within Manila’s exclusive economic zone in the South China Sea.

Complete Article

Philippine, U.S. Hold First 2025 Joint Patrol in South China Sea - Naval News

Manila and Washington kick off 2025 with a joint patrol involving a carrier strike group amid tensions in the South China Sea.

www.navalnews.com

 

[Batman]

It certainly seems like China has war drums out, even if they haven't truly started banging on them. So, is this a good time to ask if the 200,000,000 from the east are humans from that region of the globe or demons?

 

[Kem]

time to ask if the 200,000,000 from the east are humans from that region of the globe or demons?

Not sure which it will be but we do know it would be easily possible for China to raise that number of army of humans. That leads me to believe it will be humans. Or....maybe transhumans, part human and part robot.

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

China has that now.
FWIW, India could also do it.

 

[Margery]

I think from the description of that army, they sound like a demon sort of thing.

It certainly seems like China has war drums out, even if they haven't truly started banging on them. So, is this a good time to ask if the 200,000,000 from the east are humans from that region of the globe or demons?

Here's something interesting about China's population.

I have been watching a few English language Chinese news sites- these are not the ones that follow the Chinese govt party line, but they are people posting observations online about things that concern them.

In the past few days I've seen 2 reports that can be summarized as "where did all the people go?" - speculating that official Chinese population stats really overestimate their actual population and that the years since Covid have seen a lot of deaths that the authorities are still trying to cover up, combined with an extreme low in birth rates.

A lot of train stations and malls that a few years ago were bustling and crowded are really empty. Ditto traffic at rush hour. Empty food stalls and vendors leaving to who knows where.

One person I saw a week ago mentioned to the host of the program he travels by train for work, and for miles around whatever city he was talking about the housing he passed were showing signs of funerals- something about white, a traditional mourning colour- and the funerals were everywhere, households mourning a loss, but the signs of a birth in the family, also celebrated by banners or something, he only saw a few. The gossip there is that the deaths continue from Covid (my speculation that their vaccine hasn't helped either- possibly they suffer from the cancers and other issues)

That is aggravated by Chinese laws about divorce where a Chinese husband can take everything, leave a wife and dependant children with nothing and due to the extreme attitudes of entitlement in men in the culture it reduces incentives for the few women to marry and bear a child let alone children multiple.

Then I watched another couple on the economy and housing.

Economic news, Shein is trying to move out of China to produce cheap garbage in Vietnam due to Trump tariffs. The factories are abandoned in a lot of cases.

But worse yet - the Evergrande housing bubble which collapsed a few years back (the Ch govt paid to build empty cities) is continuing to fail. The housing market in Shanghai, normally high priced, has collapsed due to people moving away from the sea coast. They are afraid of war, they are sharing news of what is happening in the South China Sea and are terrified of what will happen if they remain in vulnerable locations. The Chinese narrator was saying this is repeated in other Chinese sea coast cities.

They didn't seem angry at the west, they seemed more afraid of their own govt.

How true, who knows.

But - a reduced birth rate, a higher than normal death rate, a plunging economy all putting pressure on China to do something before their population collapse is final.

 

[Margery]

About the kings of the east and the army of 200 million- these seem to be 2 different armies. One in Rev 9 is the 200 million, and Rev 16 has the armies of the kings of the east coming for Armageddon in the 6th bowl when Euphrates is dried up towards the end of the Tribulation. They are 2 different groups, both tied into the Euphrates in different ways. The last group in Rev 16 says kings plural of the east, so maybe the geographic zone of China, Japan, Korea etc and more or less humans. But those aren't the 200 million army of Rev 9. It's puzzling. I still can't tell. Because maybe the horsemen are humans riding the weird horses (the bible actually says like unto- so they aren't technically horses with those lion heads and serpent headed tails)

Rev 9 has 2 sets of attackers- both are weird.

- in the 5th trumpet, the demon locusts come out of the bottomless pit, but people can't die for 5 months - they come before the killers in the next trumpet which ARE the 200 million horseman army.

-in the 6th trumpet, the 4 angels under the River Euphrates are loosed to kill 1/3 of mankind and at that time a myriad on myriad army (200 million) of horsemen appears in v 16- the riders have breastplates of red, blue and yellow. The Bible calls them plagues, and by them 1/3 of humanity is killed. My question here, is that 1/3 in addition to the 4 angels killing 1/3 or is it a combined attack and these horsemen are how the angels kill the 1/3. It sounds like the horsemen are related to the 4 killer angels and that is how they kill off 1/3 of humanity.

The 6th trumpet horsemen are 200 million and they kill by fire, smoke and brimstone - the 3 plagues. The horses they are on are as weird as the demon locusts of the previous trumpet.

17 and the heads of the horses were like the heads of lions; and out of their mouths came fire, smoke, and brimstone.
18 By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed—by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone which came out of their mouths.
19 For their power is in their mouth and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents, having heads; and with them they do harm.

All we know is these horsemen- ride or fly in whatever it is that are described as horses with lions heads, whose mouth belches out fire, smoke and brimstone, but whose tails are like serpents with heads on the serpent tails that also harm.

By the time of Rev 16 the armies are gathering to attack Jerusalem- it's Armageddon.

12 Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, so that the way of the kings from the east might be prepared.
13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs coming out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
14 For they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

John could have been describing mounted infantry, self-propelled artillery, mobile missile batteries, tanks, etc. using the language of his day.
IDK what might look like a lion's head on the front of any of this stuff, unless maybe some kind of reactive armor or symbol of a particular army, etc. Maybe John was allowed to see how reactive armor or something else works in slo-mo.

Maybe the lion head-looking things are some kind of sun, dust, or? shield, since a column that long is going to kick up a LOT of dust, etc., and sun beating into Soldiers' faces will tire them more quickly and/or blind and/or cause hallucinations/mirages, which would cause accidents, and likely big chain-reaction ones because of close following distances in such a huge convoy.

 

[KMendel]

Could the references to "face of a lion" be to England, or to the two "cubs" which have been referenced by prophetic scholars
as the U.S. and another country mentioned in the bible??? Sorry, I can't remember the other country, but they are both kind of
breakoffs from England.

 

[Margery]

Yeah, I don't know. That is one thing that has puzzled me since I read Hal Lindsey's Late Great Planet Earth in 1970- he figured these were army type helicopters like they used in Vietnam. Maybe @mattfivefour knows more but his area is in the path of the storms tonight so he might not see this right away.

I can see them as military equipment. The riders or pilots could be completely human. Or they could be completely some weird type of fallen angel army

The colours are interesting. I looked them up - the breastplates translate to fire, jacinth and brimstone. Fire is red, jacinth is often translated as blue like Hyacinth, which is a word from that root, and brimstone is sulphur which is yellow.

The words in Strongs are:

G4447
purinos
poo'-ree-nos
From G4443; fiery, that is, (by implication) flaming: - of fire.

G5191
huakinthinos
hoo-ak-in'-thee-nos
From G5192; “hyacinthine” or “jacinthine”, that is, deep blue: - jacinth.

G2306
theiōdēs
thi-o'-dace
From G2303 and G1491; sulphur like, that is, sulphurous: - brimstone.

and the plagues they carry are Fire, Smoke and Brimstone in that order which correspond to the colours on the breastplates. Red flames, blue smoke, yellow sulphur

 

[mattfivefour]

I've got nothing. @Margery, I think what you have said (and Ms Fishy also) covers what I would have said.

By the way, the storms have passed. The winds were terrible, the rain heavy, but praise be to God the tornadoes didn't come within miles of us. The closest one was in Decatur about 38 mi away. I'm we're praying for our brothers and sisters in Christ in Kansas, Missouri and Arkansas, three states that really got hammered. We're just going to bed and it seems Mississippi is now getting hammered.

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

Makes me wonder what we did to, or didn't do for, Israel.

Or if making Ukraine quit, since that advances Gog/USSR toward Israel.

Or if allowing Turkey a free hand in Syria, since hard persecution of Christians by both countries and the various islamic groups/factions, and imperils Israel even more.

 

[Margery]

Want to know more about this 200 million "man" army? with the red blue and yellow breastplates?

So this morning I was listening to a WONDERFUL, very clear easy to understand teaching by "The Prophecy Pros" here: - YouTube

and thinking how well Jeff Kinley and Todd Hampson cover it. Todd is the author of the Non Prophet's Guide series, and Jeff Kinley has written a number of excellent books on various topics in prophecy.

For those who are just getting into prophecy or those who just want the clearest easiest guide to understanding Bible prophecy this podcast of theirs is WONDERFUL.

i am going to launch a thread just for their stuff. So worth trying out.