The President's Daily Brief - PDB Afternoon Bulletin | September 17th, 2025: China Furious Over U.S. Missile Deployment in Japan & Russia’s Child Camps Exposed

Episode Date: September 17, 2025

In this episode of The PDB Afternoon Bulletin: The U.S. Army rolls out a powerful new missile system on Japanese soil, one that can put Shanghai—and even Beijing—within range. Beijing is furious, warning that Washington and Tokyo are escalating toward an arms race. A chilling report finds thousands of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia are being held in over two hundred facilities, where they’re subjected to reeducation and military training. To listen to the show ad-free, become a premium member of The President’s Daily Brief by visiting PDBPremium.com.Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of The President's Daily Brief.YouTube: youtube.com/@presidentsdailybriefAmerican Financing: NMLS 182334, https://nmlsconsumeraccess.org. APR for rates in the 5s start at 6.327% for well qualified borrowers. Call 866-885-1881 for details about credit costs and terms. Visit http://www.AmericanFinancing.net/PDB.Birch Gold: Text PDB to 989898 and get your free info kit on gold Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Ukrainian children, abducted by Russia, are being held in over 200 facilities where they're subjected to re-education and military training. But first, today's afternoon spotlight. The U.S. has just unveiled a weapon system in Japan that Beijing hoped would never arrive. For the first time, the U.S. Army has put its typhon mid-range missile launcher on Japanese soil. Now, the system was displayed at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni during Resolute Dragon. That's the large joint exercise that now involves more than 19,000 U.S. and Japanese troops rehearsing maritime defense and coastal operations. So what exactly is Typhon? Well, think of it as ship-launched firepower, brought ashore. It's a road mobile launcher that can fire two very different but complementary

missiles, the SM6 and the Tomahawk cruise missile. Together, they give commanders options. for striking air-sea and land targets, essentially a flexible toolkit that can adapt to whatever fight develops. So let's break that down. The SM6 is a multi-roll missile designed for anti-air and anti-ship missions. Its range is measured in the low hundreds of miles, but what makes it formidable is its speed, precision guidance, and its ability to link with other sensors. It's a missile built for layered defense and sea denial. The tomahawk, on the other hand, is the heavy hitter. The latest variants can reach 900 to 1,000 miles.

That puts huge sections of China's eastern seaboard at risk if fired from southwestern Japan. Shanghai and even Beijing itself is close enough to be threatened by the longest-range tomahawks. That shift in geography is crucial. Before, striking deep into China required moving ships or submarines dangerously close to the coast. Now, with typhon deployed on Japanese soil, those same targets can be hit from land across the water. Japan sits along what military planners call the first island chain. It's a line of islands stretching from Japan down through Taiwan and the Philippines that forms China's front yard.

By placing tomahawks and SM6 is there, the U.S. shortens flight times, expands the number of vulnerable Chinese targets and forces Beijing to plan around a whole new set of threats. What do these missiles carry? Well, I'm glad you asked. Tomahawks typically pack a thousand pound class conventional warhead designed to crater airfields or punch through hardened bunkers and destroy critical infrastructure. The SM6 carries a smaller blast fragmentation warhead, but paired with its high speed and targeting systems, it can kill ships or intercept enemy aircraft. Loaded together on a mobile truck, Typhon is both a sword and a shield, both a long-range strike and also a layered defense system in a single package. So it's no surprise that Beijing is angry.

China's foreign ministry has condemned the deployment, demanding Washington and Tokyo withdraw the system. Officials accused the U.S. and Japan of destabilizing Asia, fueling an arms race, and here's a familiar line, warning Japan to, quote, reflect on its military past. That's the typical script that Beijing uses to stir nationalism and frame Japan as the aggressor abroad. By placing typhon in Japan, and even temporarily, the U.S. and its allies raise the political and military cost for China to operate near the islands. It strengthens deterrence by signaling that key Chinese assets could be hit quickly in a crisis. It also escalates the stakes because Beijing must now plan for the possibility that these missiles could be used if tensions boil over

into conflict. The big question now, is this a one-time deployment for Resolute Dragon, the military exercise, or is it the start of a more permanent posture? That decision will possibly shape the balance of power in Asia. For the moment, the strategic message is clear. China's leadership is treating the typhon's presence as a major escalation, and the U.S. is showing its willing to move some of its most advanced tools right to Beijing's doorstep. Coming up next, A report says that abducted Ukrainian children are being sent to Russian camps for indoctrination and military training. I'll be right back.

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The sprawling network ranges from summer camps and monasteries to psychiatric hospitals, so-called, quote, family centers, oh, that sounds fun, and even a military base. The study says that these sites fall into at least eight distinct categories, but all serve a unifying goal, to quote, indoctrinate Ukrainian children with pro-Russian anti-Ukrainian narratives, transforming them into instruments of Moscow's grinding war. And indoctrination is just the start. Many children are pushed through military training programs that include battlefield drills and paratrooper training.

In some cases, the Yale team reveals, quote, children at some facilities have been engaged in the production of military equipment for Russia's armed forces, including drones, and quote. Others are reportedly held indefinitely, warehoused in camps with no clear path to release. In their investigation, the researchers relied on satellite imagery and open-source data, cross-checked against NATO information, to map this web of facilities. While the exact number of abducted children remains unknown, Ukraine's state-run Bringing Kids Back program estimates that more than 19,500 have been seized since Russia's invasion began in February of 2022, something that,

number is much higher. Just 1,600 children have been returned, including 101 last month. Other children vanished into coerced fostering and adoption schemes inside Russia and eventually were naturalized as Russian citizens. In March 23, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Russian President Putin and other members of his regime, accusing them of war crimes of, quote, unlawful deportation and unlawful transfer of children. Backing the Yale findings, a Biden-era State Department report titled the Kremlin's war against Ukraine's children had already warned that Moscow was using forced relocation and adoption to erase Ukraine's identity, history, and culture. Ukrainian President Zelensky, who will raise the issue

at the UN General Assembly in New York next week, has called the abductions, quote, one of Russia's most heinous crimes. And European Commission President Ursula Vandlein echoed that call. After meeting President Trump in Washington back in August, she declared that, quote, every single Ukrainian child abducted by Russia must be returned, end quote. Trump himself has cast the issue in broader terms. After his talks with Zelensky and von der Leyen, the commander-in-chief underscored, quote, the massive worldwide problem of missing children, framing the crisis as part of a global challenge rather than singling out Russia directly.

Meanwhile, First Lady Melania Trump went from. further than her husband, pending an open letter to Putin, urging the protection of, quote, the innocence of these children, a letter which, according to the Wall Street Journal, Trump personally handed to Putin during their Alaska summit last month. And Moscow's response so far, well, it's been predictable. Russian state media buried the Yale findings, recycling the line that children were relocated, quote, for their safety, and dismissing the criticism as Western hysteria. And that, my friends, is the PDB afternoon bulletin for Wednesday, the 17th of September.

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