by WorldTribune Staff, May 18, 2021 The communist government in China is using forced labor from Uyghur Muslims to produce a key component used in the production of solar panels, British researchers reported. An investigation by researchers at the UK’s Sheffield Hallam University found significant evidence — largely drawn from government and corporate sources — […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler This didn’t have to happen. But blame toxic politics, the living legacy of the populist Peronist era, and the tipping point of the Corona pandemic, and you discover what is unraveling Argentina’s socio/economic fabric. Sadly, we see a resource-rich and formerly middle class country morphing into a tragic […]
FPI / May 12, 2021 Geostrategy-Direct.com By Richard Fisher Hu Xijin is the editor-in-chief of the Global Times but has also become perhaps the most important mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Hu is now the CCP’s threat-maker-in-chief. Unlike dour CCP officials, Hu’s job it to make chilling threats in English to clear the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 10, 2021 China’s ongoing military expansion continues to seek out valuable real estate around the world. The Asian communist superpower is planning to refurbish an old World War II airstrip on a remote island located in the very heart of the South Pacific, providing an ideal site for operations targeted at […]
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FPI / May 9, 2021 Geostrategy-Direct.com By Richard Fisher China’s power projection ambitions include “a network of bases around the globe…[including] the Atlantic coast of Africa,” said United States Army Gen. Stephen Townsend, Commander, United States Africa Command (AFRICOM). The warning was given before the Senate Armed Services Committee on April 22. Responding to a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler “Your papers Please,” has long been the customary greeting for people crossing borders, visiting many foreign countries, or sometimes even moving about cities under Covid “lockdown.” At its worst the question conjures up what I call the “Checkpoint Charlie” syndrome, crossing into East Berlin or back during the […]
Special to WorldTribune By Miles Maochun Yu, Hoover Institution Propaganda is older than the medieval printing press, and every communications innovation increases the propagandists’ reach. Westerners most often think of propaganda coming from its two ardent twentieth-century practitioners: the German Nazis and the Soviet communists. Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda, laid out plainly the […]
FPI / May 29, 2021 By Christopher W Holton, Center for Security Policy As I write this article a 100-foot, 19-ton section of a Chinese space rocket is plummeting to earth in what is euphemistically referred to as an “uncontrolled re-entry.” What is really happening is that a huge hunk of space debris is set […]
FPI / May 5, 2021 Geostrategy-Direct.com China’s ongoing maritime activities are part of an effort by the communist regime of supreme leader Xi Jinping to control the region near its coasts by “winning without fighting,” an analyst said. China’s taking of Scarborough Shoal in the Spratly Islands in 2012 and the Obama administration’s failure to […]
