‘Non-hemispheric’ China gets a call from ‘strategic partner’ Nicholas Maduro

‘Non-hemispheric’ China gets a call from ‘strategic partner’ Nicholas Maduro

FPI / December 18, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Dec. 17, 2025, China’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi called Venezuela’s Minister of the People’s Power for Foreign Affairs Yvan Gil Pinto — at the latter’s request. That same day third-level Chinese state media Guancha reported on the Chinese Foreign Ministry’s statement regarding that […]

Select Committee documents illicit China-Iran-Venezuela oil network

Select Committee documents illicit China-Iran-Venezuela oil network

by WorldTribune Staff, December 16, 2025 Real World News The U.S. House Select Committee on China has exposed an illicit China-Iran-Venezuela network which the committee said is “directly fueling drug dealers and terrorists.” “China is the indispensable buyer, logistics hub for sanctioned Iranian & Venezuelan oil,” the committee’s chairman, Rep. John Moolenaar, Michigan Republican, said […]

Analysis: No, Taiwan is not China’s internal affair

Analysis: No, Taiwan is not China’s internal affair

by WorldTribune Staff, December 11, 2025 Real World News In 1955, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill rejected communist propaganda that Taiwan was somehow a domestic matter for China. He insisted instead that Taiwan’s status was, by legal fact and geopolitical reality, an international issue. Churchill, one of the architects of the 1943 Cairo Declaration outlining […]

Analyst slams China over fighter jets’ ‘dangerous’ drills near Okinawa

Analyst slams China over fighter jets’ ‘dangerous’ drills near Okinawa

by WorldTribune Staff, December 8, 2025 Real World News Chinese fighter jets conducted drills near the Okinawa islands in Japan which included aiming their radar at Japanese military aircraft in two “dangerous” incidents, Japanese officials said. “These radar illuminations are a dangerous act that went beyond what is necessary for the safe flight of aircraft,” […]

Japan PM’s direct, clear comment on Taiwan; Beijing’s bluster finally stymied?

Japan PM’s direct, clear comment on Taiwan; Beijing’s bluster finally stymied?

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, December 5, 2025 Beijing has gone rhetorically ballistic over comments by Japan’s new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, that a Chinese attack on Taiwan could constitute “a situation threatening Japan’s survival” that thus could trigger a military response. Her statement poses uncharacteristically tough talk from Tokyo at a time […]

Analyst: Time to cut ties with China’s companies, ‘America’s enemies’

Analyst: Time to cut ties with China’s companies, ‘America’s enemies’

FPI / December 4, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct According to Marketbeat.com, Alibaba Group Holding Limited, “through its subsidiaries, provides technology infrastructure and marketing reach to help merchants, brands, retailers, and other businesses to engage with their users and customers in the People’s Republic of China and internationally.” Alibaba is traded on the New York Stock Exchange and, […]

A rarity: Xi called Trump, but his purpose was to set a trap

A rarity: Xi called Trump, but his purpose was to set a trap

FPI / December 1, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China has a habit of not returning American phone calls, but on Nov. 24, 2025, Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping called United States President Donald Trump. The rarity of Xi deciding to call Trump has to be noted. On April 1, 2001, when a People’s […]

Real world war raging within the global industrial complex

Real world war raging within the global industrial complex

by WorldTribune Staff, December 1, 2025 Real World News According to a new Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) study, weapons manufacturers are recording their highest revenue ever. But does a look inside the data reveal a pro-U.S. “peace through strength” ideology gaining momentum vs the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and D.C. establishment? The top […]

Xi lobbies Trump in continued all-out attack on Japan’s CCP-wary PM

Xi lobbies Trump in continued all-out attack on Japan’s CCP-wary PM

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, November 24, 2025 Real World News Paranoia in the leadership ranks of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) grows by the day over the new Japanese prime minister the CCP is unable to control. Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, the protege of late PM Shinzo Abe, who China also could not get […]

Harvard Crimson drills in on early stage of Epstein probe in Palm Beach, Summers’ Chinese love interest

Harvard Crimson drills in on early stage of Epstein probe in Palm Beach, Summers’ Chinese love interest

by WorldTribune Staff, November 23, 2025 Real World News While authorities in Florida were in the midst of a sexual-battery investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, then-Harvard University President Lawrence Summers spent part of his 2005 honeymoon with wife Elisa New on Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean, documents released by the House Oversight Committee show. Summers […]