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 […]
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 […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 27, 2026 Real World News Gen. Zhang Youxia, communist China’s top general and the Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission, has been removed from the post by Communist Party chief Xi Jinping, state media announced over the weekend. Zhang, 75, once considered one of Xi’s most-trusted military allies, was also […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, January 26, 2026 Location, Location, Location. Whether in real estate or international politics, the physical location of a particular property, country or sea-lane plays into its geopolitical importance. From Manhattan to Miami, from Singapore to Suez and Gibraltar to Greenland, so much is determined by the location and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 23, 2026 Real World News Peter Schweizer, author of “The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon“, told Steve Bannon’s “War Room” how Chinese are using birthright citizenship to create a Manchurian generation in the United States. Schweizer told Bannon: “This whole issue of birthright […]