by WorldTribune Staff, November 18, 2026 Non-AI Real World News Japan’s energy lifeline to the Middle East accounts for approximately 90% to 95% of its crude oil imports. Nearly all passes through the Strait of Hormuz, with major suppliers being Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and Qatar. With Iran continuing to disrupt the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 17, 2026 Non-AI Real World News It has long been suspected that China executes people for their organs. A new book tells the world, including the perspective of the lone known survivor of the gruesome practice, how a prison population of millions, drawn predominantly from Falun Gong practitioners and the Uyghur […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 13, 2026 Real World News On March 11, 2011, a 9.0 earthquake triggered a massive tsunami which devastated Japan’s northeast coast and led to the triple meltdown at the nuclear power plant at Fukushima. Photos of the devastation can be seen here. Of the 19,759 reported deaths, more than 90% were […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 8, 2026 Real World News At last year’s National People’s Congress in Beijing, Xi Jinping presided flanked by a panel of decorated generals. With the January purging of Gen. Zhang Youxia, China’s all-powerful Central Military Commission that usually has seven members has been decimated. At this year’s NPC, Xi presided with […]
Special to WorldTribune, February 26, 2026 Real World News By Richard Fisher for Geostrategy-Direct, February 24, 2026 [Update: Korean newspapers have published an unusual statement from U.S. Gen. Xavier Brunson, denying that he had issued an apology for last week’s standoff between U.S. and Chinese fighter jets near South Korean airspace.] At a time when […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 20, 2026 Real World News American media consumers deprived of relevant international news have taken note of the emergence of Japan’s first female prime minister but may not appreciate its geopolitical significance. “From the Japanese perspective, the U.S. became increasingly more ‘mercurial’ since the 9-11 terrorist attack on the World Trade […]
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 […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 8, 2026 Real World News Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s ruling coalition defied powerful Chinese Communist Party influence networks in Japan and secured a remarkable supermajority victory in parliamentary’s elections on Sunday, winning more than 75% of the seats in the lower house. Takaichi’s move to call a snap only three months […]
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 […]
FPI / January 29, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Related: Central Military Commission reduced to 2, January 27, 2026 While the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) abhors transparency, it also jumps to use outsiders’ lack of knowledge to advance deception stratagems for purposes ranging from sowing confusion to masking preparations for aggression. Such a strategic perspective […]
