FPI / September 1, 2024 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher With the rushed “coronation” of Vice President Kamala Harris as the new Democrat Party presidential candidate following Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the race, he is now effectively a Lame Duck president, so it is fair to begin to consider his legacy regarding U.S.-China relations. For one, […]
FPI / August 29, 2024 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher An article in the June 2024 issue of the Chinese journal Aerospace China offers a review of China’s growing commercial space sector focusing on space launcher and mega satellite constellation makers, but it offers fewer insights into potential commercial manned space efforts. Ultimately, the Chinese Communist […]
FPI / August 28, 2024 Geostrategy-Direct For the first time in decades, the United States does not have an aircraft carrier in the Pacific. Despite rising tensions with China over disputed islands in the South China sea and a recent Chinese air incursion near Japan, the Biden administration ordered the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 26, 2024 Contract With Our Readers According to a United Nations report last month, China filed more than 38,000 Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) patents from 2014 to 2023. That’s six times more than those filed by U.S.-based inventors, the UN World Intellectual Property Organization said. If it is to outpace China in […]
FPI / August 23, 2024 Geostrategy-Direct The official news feeds of China’s propaganda outlets conveys the bland message that the Communist Party leadership has no preference on who wins the 2024 U.S. presidential election. China watchers with no financial ties to Beijing see such official statements as a façade and know the Xi Jinping regime […]
FPI / August 21, 2024 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher A recent report reveals that one or more Western governments are concerned that China is in the process of proliferating satellite data services and satellite technology to Iran, that could eventually enable Iran to achieve precision targeting against Israel and then against global targets, for its […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 19, 2024 Contract With Our Readers Seeing an independent Taiwan as the greatest threat to its power, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is planning a brutal takeover of the island democracy by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and vows to sentence dissenters to death, including foreign institutions, organizations, and individuals who […]
FPI / August 16, 2024 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher After 2035 or so, China intends to build a large Moon Base capable of supporting multiple astronauts, along with attendant unmanned exploration, power and communication support and construction systems. In 2021 this intention was mentioned in some of the initial documents released describing the then new […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 15, 2024 Contract With Our Readers Should the Democrat vice presidential candidate expect questions about his extremely close ties with America’s top geostrategic rival, communist China? Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a former six-term congressman from Minnesota, honeymooned in China and even planned his wedding date to coincide with the 5th anniversary […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, August 15, 2024 The collapse of Afghanistan to the Taliban Islamic fundamentalists three years ago on Aug. 15th, signaled an inflection point on the geopolitical scene. While the appalling stupidity of the Biden/Harris Administration’s botched and humiliating withdrawal of American forces from this South Asian land stained and […]