by WorldTribune Staff, February 17, 2026 Real World News In Communist China, 2026 would normally have been the Year of the Horse. But, in the eyes of state media, this will not be a normal year for Xi Jin Ping and the nation currently coralled by his regime. China has declared “the Year of the […]
FPI / February 13, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct Gen. Zhang Youxia was purged from his lofty position on China’s Central Military Commission (CMC) because he disagreed with Communist Party chief Xi Jinping on the buildup of the nation’s armed forces by 2027, the deadline Xi set for the military to be ready to use force to take […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 12, 2026 Real World News In a report to Congress on Tuesday, the U.S. State Department linked leftist nonprofits Code Pink and the People’s Forum to Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influence operations. The report on “Countering Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference” alleges that China “spreads propaganda through influence campaigns run by […]
FPI / February 11, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Feb. 5, 2026, the 2010 United States-Russia New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), negotiated between former President Barack Obama and Russian leader Vladimir Putin expired. The Trump Administration has made clear that this had to happen in large part due to the actions of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 9, 2026 Real World News The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party has warned for years that the CCP views overseas education as a strategic tool for stealing other countries’ advanced scientific and technical knowledge. According to a new report by a non-profit watchdog group, a number of America’s […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, February 9, 2026 Set amid the spectacular Alpine scenery and historic towns of northern Italy, the XXV Winter Olympics have opened in Milan/Cortina. The two week event hosting 90 teams and some 2,900 athletes are competing in sporting events from the traditional downhill skiing, snowboard, speed skating to […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 5, 2026 Real World News The U.S. State Department on Wednesday brought together representatives from 54 nations in what the department described as an all-out effort to “set out to reshape the global market for critical minerals and rare earths.” Multiple bilateral critical minerals frameworks and memorandums of understanding (MOUs) were […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 4, 2026 Real World News For many years, Western mainstream media have portrayed communist China as a cordial “competitor” to the United States and not an adversary. Those opinion factories have “defaulted to a comfortable phrase: China is our greatest competitor. It sounds modern, measured, even sporting, like global affairs is […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, February 2, 2026 Strange and mysterious events are transpiring inside the walls of Beijing’s Forbidden City. In the massive nearby government compound Zhongnanhai there’s a clear unease as Communist Party Chief and military supremo Xi Jinping has shuffled the political cards in the powerful Central Military Commission, by […]
FPI / January 30, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher In the twenty years since its founding in June 2006, New Zealand-born space engineer and entrepreneur Sir Peter Beck has turned his Rocket Lab company into a world-class competitive and innovative space launch provider, meeting civil and military requirements for economical medium-lift capability. An American company […]
