Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk China’s overwhelming trade surpluses with just about all its trading partners, notably the U.S., are hardly the only worrisome aspect of Chinese expansionism. Along with China’s aggressive militarism, we are hearing constantly about the nation’s use of “sharp power” to advance its agenda in just about every country on […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Sol W. Sanders One of the ironies of the current international order is that efforts by both Communist China and the U.S. to minimize the role of Taiwan actually intensify its importance. For Beijing, of course, Taiwan is a “rogue” province, defying the argument that only an autocratic Chinese-language-speaking political entity […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 23, 2018 The arrest of Huawei’s CFO on Dec. 6 lifted the veil on a woman known as “Princess Meng” who is “the heiress apparent of China’s largest and most advanced high-tech company, and one which plays a key role in China’s grand strategy of global domination,” a China specialist and […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Beijing held a big party to celebrate the Economic Reform process starting forty years ago which changed China and the world. Amid the meticulous staging in the cavernous Great Hall of the People, China’s supreme leader Xi Jinping addressed the party faithful to a backdrop […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 17, 2018 A Chinese company with close ties to the communist government will assume control of the civilian port in Israel’s largest port city in 2021. The move has prompted the U.S. to reconsider its joint military operations with Israel at the port and leading Israel’s national security cabinet to revisit […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Sol W. Sanders Beijing’s ability to get at foreign technology and finances through its ultra sophisticated spying network is becoming a major threat to the U.S. and other Western societies. E.W. Priestap, assistant director of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division told a Senate committee, Chinese spying threatens “not just the future of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty The United States has denounced the “predatory” practices of Russia and China in Africa as it unveiled a refocus of its strategy that will include an end to “indiscriminate assistance across the entire continent.” National-security adviser John Bolton said on Dec. 13 that the new strategy […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 14, 2018 The Chinese Communist Party is stepping up its propaganda assault on Tibet ahead of the 60th anniversary of the Dalai Lama fleeing into exile. “In the face of the lies of the 14th Dalai Lama, the various peoples of Tibet should be even more aware that socialist new Tibet […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 10, 2018 Chinese authorities on Dec. 9 arrested 100 members of an underground Christian church in Sichuan province. In coordinated raids in districts of the provincial capital of Chengdu, police targeted members of the unofficial Early Rain Covenant Church. In February, China’s Religious Affairs Regulation was amended to give officials more […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 9, 2018 China’s Foreign Ministry has summoned U.S. Ambassador Terry Branstad in response to the arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou and vowed to take “further action” if needed. Meng was arrested in Vancouver on Dec. 1 on the orders of U.S. authorities for allegedly violating American sanctions on selling technology […]