by WorldTribune Staff, February 21, 2026 Real World News Alysa Liu won the gold in the women’s free skate final on Feb. 19, 2026, officially ending a what a Fox News report termed a “20-year medal drought for American women in the event and a 24-year drought for gold.” It was also a major comeback […]
FPI / February 20, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Feb. 11, 2026 China began its push to the Moon, testing an early version of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) Long March-10 space launch vehicle (SLV) that is expected to take Chinese astronauts to the Moon in 2029 or 2030. This was […]
FPI / February 18, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher For decades China’s economic and military technology support has allowed Iran’s radical Mullah regime to build up proxies including Hamas, Hizbullah, and the Houthis, to wage war against Israel, and to invest great capital to build nuclear weapons, while Chinese surveillance technology has enabled the Iranian […]
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 […]
FPI / February 13, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct Gen. Zhang Youxia was purged from his lofty position on China’s Central Military Commission (CMC) because he disagreed with Communist Party chief Xi Jinping on the buildup of the nation’s armed forces by 2027, the deadline Xi set for the military to be ready to use force to take […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 12, 2026 Real World News In a report to Congress on Tuesday, the U.S. State Department linked leftist nonprofits Code Pink and the People’s Forum to Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influence operations. The report on “Countering Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference” alleges that China “spreads propaganda through influence campaigns run by […]
FPI / February 11, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Feb. 5, 2026, the 2010 United States-Russia New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), negotiated between former President Barack Obama and Russian leader Vladimir Putin expired. The Trump Administration has made clear that this had to happen in large part due to the actions of […]
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 […]
