Who is ‘Brother Wang’? U.S. zeroes in on fentanyl kingping believed to be in Cuba

Who is ‘Brother Wang’? U.S. zeroes in on fentanyl kingping believed to be in Cuba

by WorldTribune Staff, October 23, 2025 Real World News The United States hopes to soon have in custody a drug kingpin known as “Brother Wang,” who the DEA said is responsible for transporting from Mexico to the U.S. nearly 2,000 kilos of fentanyl and more than 1,000 kilos of cocaine. Who is “Brother Wang”? Chinese […]

CCP’s turning point? 9 senior military officers purged on eve of Fourth Plenum

CCP’s turning point? 9 senior military officers purged on eve of Fourth Plenum

FPI / October 22, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct Nine senior military leaders have been purged by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) amid rumors about its direction, leadership and control of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). The firings coincided with the Fourth Plenum of the CCP’s 20th Central Committee in which the party would address a five-year plan […]

Human Rights Council member ‘selections’ again invite controversy

Human Rights Council member ‘selections’ again invite controversy

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, October 22, 2025 In a ritual of near farcical folly, the UN General Assembly has elected fourteen new members to join the Geneva-based Human Rights Council. The otherwise low-key annual ballot raises political hypocrisy to a heightened level. These new Council members including countries like Angola, Egypt, Iraq, […]

China targets U.S. shipbuilding revival, sanctions South Korean subsidiaries

China targets U.S. shipbuilding revival, sanctions South Korean subsidiaries

by WorldTribune Staff, October 17, 2025 Real World News Intent on slowing America’s shipbuilding revival under President Donald Trump, communist China has slapped sanctions on five U.S. subsidiaries of South Korean shipbuilder Hanwha Ocean. The sanctioned subsidiaries are Hanwha Shipping LLC, Hanwha Philly Shipyard Inc., Hanwha Ocean USA International LLC, Hanwha Shipping Holdings LLC and […]

Testimony, parade reveal China’s, North Korea’s accelerating nuclear threat to U.S.

Testimony, parade reveal China’s, North Korea’s accelerating nuclear threat to U.S.

FPI / October 16, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Recent U.S. Government testimony reports that China’s strategic nuclear threat continues to increase, while an Oct. 10, 2025 military parade in Pyongyang shows that North Korea may have the world’s largest multiple-warhead nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). Both developments point to an accelerating nuclear strategic threat […]

Why China’s new unmanned bomber poses threat to U.S. homeland

Why China’s new unmanned bomber poses threat to U.S. homeland

FPI / October 15, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Sept. 19, 2025, satellite images began to appear on the Chinese internet of a very large unmanned flying-wing style aircraft, regarded as an unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV), potentially large enough to undertake nuclear strikes against the United States from bases in Chinese territory. For […]

Stop the UN global climate tax on American ships

Stop the UN global climate tax on American ships

Special to WorldTribune.com Commentary by Stephen Moore, October 15, 2025 Later this week the United Nations will hold a vote on a multibillion-dollar climate change tax targeted squarely at American industry. Without quick and decisive action by the White House, this U.N. tax on fossil fuels will become international law. This resolution before the International […]

Where is Xi Jinping? Ball in China’s court on rare earths-tariffs showdown, says Team Trump

Where is Xi Jinping? Ball in China’s court on rare earths-tariffs showdown, says Team Trump

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, October 14, 2025 Real World News What exactly is going on in Communist China, and where is Comrade Xi Jinping? China’s sweeping restrictions on rare earth exports  in a surprise announcement last week caught the White House off guard ahead of an expected meeting between President Donald Trump and Communist China […]

Analysis: Xi Jinping’s real nightmare is a force over which he has no control

Analysis: Xi Jinping’s real nightmare is a force over which he has no control

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, October 12, 2025 Real World News Tariffs, technology and strategic weapons are the visible chessboard pieces of the undeclared war between the United States and communist China. Less visible is the “cognitive warfare” between the two power as well as the “Information War” and the ongoing intelligence war of nerves all […]

How Beijing and Burma treat minorities: ‘Decades of exclusion,’ ethnic cleansing and intolerance

How Beijing and Burma treat minorities: ‘Decades of exclusion,’ ethnic cleansing and intolerance

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, October 12, 2025 Almost a decade ago, the then new UN Sec. Gen. Antonio Guterres decried the forced expulsion of the minority Rohingya people from Myanmar (Burma) by the military. During a September press conference in 2017, he condemned the Myanmar regime’s actions forcing nearly a million Muslim […]