Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, March 30, 2025 Speaking out to break the information barrier inside the hermetically sealed North Korean dictatorship is in itself nothing new, and usually quickly forgotten. North Korean exiles, friendly governments and humanitarian organizations will periodically raise the oft forsaken banner of human rights only then to be […]
FPI / May 28, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Little noticed beyond commercial shipping media on May 16, Chinese state media platform Guancha (To Observe) carried a report on the first voyage of the world’s largest Pure Car and Truck Carrier (PCTC) ship, the Anji Ansheng, capable of transporting up to 9,500 average size automobiles. […]
FPI / May 23, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Chinese Propaganda Axiom: Always accuse your enemy of the offensive behavior or even crimes that you are committing while refusing to talk/negotiate with your enemy. In 2006 the United States accused China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of testing ground-based laser weapons against U.S. satellites, for which […]
FPI / May 21, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher President Donald Trump is determined to upend the existing strategic nuclear balance by decreasing the utility of China’s and Russia’s investment in nuclear superiority over the United States, by building a National Missile Defense for Americans that will press China and Russia also to build missile […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 19, 2025 Real World News If China does act on Communist Party Chairman Xi Jinping’s goal of annexing Taiwan, what would the United States do to prevent it? Or would it do anything? “A while back an Asia security expert advising the U.S. military and maybe in line for a Trump […]
FPI / May 14, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct Charles Lieber, a former Harvard chemist and nanoscientist who was convicted of lying to investigators about secret work he did for communist China, has been hired by Tsinghua University as a professor. Lieber signed a three-year contract in China which includes a salary of $50,000 per month and living […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 11, 2025 Real World News Diplomacy was the ticket for President Donald Trump this weekend as he hailed “great progress” in getting America a better trade deal with China while seeking peace between Indian and Pakistan and Russia and Ukraine. Trump wrote in a series of posts to Truth Social: China […]
FPI / May 9, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Thirty years ago in early 1995, Chinese paramilitary naval forces began a crucial phase in the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) objective to impose its control over the South China Sea, clearing the way to secure global hegemony and also, hegemony in space. In those early months […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, May 7, 2025 A long smoldering fuse to wider conflict has reignited in the wake of a terrible terrorist attack killing 27 tourists in the mountainous Pahalgam region in disputed Kashmir. The Indian civilians were apparently targeted because of their Hindu religion. Since the unprovoked attacks in late […]
FPI / May 7, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct The U.S. Department of Defense and Department of Energy have funded laboratories at American universities which in their research used Chinese supercomputers that have contributed to the communist nation’s military buildup. L.J. Eads, a former U.S. Air Force intelligence analyst, said the obvious: Such practices endangers national security. The […]
