by WorldTribune Staff, June 29, 2020 What would Rhodes scholars like former President Bill Clinton think? A letter allegedly written in the name of Oriel College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford, excoriating students involved in the movement to remove the college’s statue of Cecil Rhodes is circulating on social media and by […]
FPI / May 26, 2020 Commentary by Lee Cohen In a welcome shift of policy that affects the “Special Relationship” between the U.S. and its greatest ally, the UK, Britain announced over the weekend that “Boris Johnson has instructed officials to draw up plans that would see China’s involvement in the UK’s infrastructure scaled down […]
FPI / May 8, 2020 Commentary by Lee Cohen Many world leaders including those in the U.S., the UK, and Australia are calling for inquiries and punitive actions against what British author Charles Moore calls “a Chinese system of governmental, scientific and intellectual control whose secretiveness and mendacity have created the most sudden and widespread […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 21, 2020 U.S. President Donald Trump can’t go it alone when it comes to the world shaking off its dependence on Chinese goods, Brexit leader Nigel Farage said. “Ultimately, it isn’t governments or trade deals that decide how much business gets done between nations. It is consumers that make that decision, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 20, 2020 The record clearly shows that the World Health Organization (WHO) has failed the world on the outbreak of the Wuhan coronavirus. Chinese health officials knew the virus was spreading between humans by mid-January. But, on Jan. 14, the WHO stated that there was “no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 5, 2020 Had the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) provided accurate information at an early juncture of the coronavirus outbreak “the infection would not have left China,” a UK-based think tank said. Since the CCP’s negligence caused the virus to spread, nations worldwide have required their citizens to stay at home and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 30, 2020 When the coronavirus crisis is over, the British government should re-evaluate its relationship with China, including whether to continue to use Huawei for the UK’s 5G infrastructure, government officials said. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government is said to be furious over China’s ongoing pandemic disinformation campaign. “There has to […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 27, 2020 A British epidemiologist of the Imperial College, whose dire predictions on the coronavirus outbreak caused much anxiety, has revised his prediction with a much more optimistic view. Neil Ferguson had suggested that over 500,000 people could die in the UK, and over two million could die in the U.S. […]
Special to WorldTribune , March 2, 2020 Commentary By Lee Cohen While Joe Biden staved off the reaper in the South Carolina primary on Saturday, Bernie Sanders seems well-positioned to outpace him to become the Democrat nominee to challenge President Donald Trump. This causes great consternation to many Democrats, who look to the thrashing that […]
FPI / February 20, 2020 Post-Brexit Great Britain plans to close its borders to those who can’t speak English and to unskilled workers, reports say. The move is part of the administration of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s overhaul of immigration laws aimed at ending the era of cheap EU labor in the UK’s factories, warehouses, […]
