The Guardian: “Two months after receiving a 27-year sentence for trying to ‘annihilate’ Brazil’s democratic institutions, former president Jair Bolsonaro finally looks jail-bound.”

“The convicted coup-monger – who has been living under house arrest in his mansion while a series of legal procedures and appeals play out – is widely expected to be incarcerated in the coming days, amid growing speculation that he will be sent to a notorious maximum security prison.”

“Mao Zedong once said that China must wield both the pen and the gun against its adversaries. It is a strategy China is now intensifying for Taiwan,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“With its so-called pen, China’s state television is preparing the domestic Chinese population for a new phase of pressure against Taiwan.”

“Its prime-time slot is filled with a new historical drama, ‘The Silent Honor,’ which lionizes Communist Party agents operating in Taiwan after the Nationalists fled to the island in 1949 following their loss of the civil war to Mao’s forces. The series frames the agents’ espionage—and eventual execution—as martyrdom for the cause of ‘unification.'”

“European officials pushed back against a U.S. proposal for ending the Ukraine war, saying that Kyiv must approve any plan and that the conflict must not end with a Ukrainian capitulation,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“European officials will now have to reprise a role they have played periodically since President Trump’s return to the White House in January: using connections in Washington to try to pull the administration back from a proposal they see as too favorable to Russia.”