by WorldTribune Staff, April 8, 2025 Real World News A South Korea delegation was en route to Washington, DC on Tuesday for negotiations with President Donald Trump on trade and defense. The blue-chip Dow soared 1,238 points, or 3.2%, after the opening bell on Tuesday amid renewed optimism for a deal with trading partners before […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 7, 2025 Real World News If China ignores his warning and continues to impose retaliatory tariffs on the United States, President Donald Trump said he would “immediately” hit the communist nation with “substantially higher tariffs.” China said Friday that it will impose 34% tariffs on all imports from the U.S. beginning […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, April 7, 2025 China’s growing naval power is regularly and systematically harassing the waters around Taiwan in what appears to be rehearsal exercises for a future invasion of the self-ruled democratic island. Units of the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) as well as swarms of military aircraft regularly […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 6, 2025 Real World News All three major stock indexes fell for a second consecutive day on Friday following President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs announcement on Wednesday. Based on two days, China has declared Trump’s move a failure. “The market has spoken,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said in […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 4, 2025 Real World News The sky is falling, according to the Wall Street Journal and most legacy media chronicling the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s announcement on April 2 of tariffs for most nations of the world. The stock market tanked and the fate of humanity was declared to be […]
FPI / April 2, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher As the Trump Administration builds up U.S. military forces in the Middle East for possible use against Iran-supported Houthi terrorists, deploying the 7th Fleet nuclear carrier U.S.S. Vinson to the Middle East, China’s surprise launching of largescale military drills on April 1 — April Fools Day […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 1, 2025 Real World News The heartburn President-elect Donald Trump inflicted on China’s Xi Jinping with his Christmas greeting is not getting any better: Merry Christmas to all, including to the wonderful soldiers of China, who are lovingly, but illegally, operating the Panama Canal (where we lost 38,000 people in its […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, March 31, 2025 Two powerful earthquakes jolted and devastated Myanmar, aka Burma, causing widespread death, destruction and dislocation for a country already reeling from the effects of ongoing civil conflict. The 7.7 Scale quakes created stunning devastation in central Myanmar as well as into neighboring Thailand killing 1,700 […]
FPI / March 27, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct U.S. intelligence agencies believe Gen. He Weidong, one of two vice chairmen of the Central Military Commission (CMC), is the latest victim of a political purge in the upper ranks of China’s People’s Liberation Army. His disappearance has been the subject of rumors for a week. The CMC is […]
FPI / March 28, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher For decades it has been the fervent dream of Western Liberals that mankind keep wars on Earth, and that for the benefit of humanity, only pursue peaceful cooperation in space. From the 1990s onward, many of these liberals, especially in the Obama Administration, thought that cooperation […]
