Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler It’s a bird. It’s a plane! No, it’s a Chinese “weather balloon” probing American airspace! The fascinating but bizarre Chinese “weather balloon” incident has raised disturbing and very unsettling questions about Beijing’s high-altitude breach of American airspace and indeed sovereignty. More troubling, the incident was not just a […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 9, 2023 U.S. military vessels are quietly being blocked by pro-China elements out of some Pacific islands ports, a report said. On Jan. 26, Vanuatu failed to issue clearance for the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Juniper to enter Port Vila, Cleo Paskal reported for The Sunday Guardian. The Juniper, running out […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 7, 2023 China now has more land-based intercontinental-range missile launchers than the United States, the new commander of U.S. Strategic Command, Air Force Gen. Anthony J. Cotton, told the Senate and House Armed Services Committees in a Jan. 26 letter. Stratcom oversees U.S. nuclear forces. Republicans in Congress have said they […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 5, 2023 On Saturday, an F-22 Raptor fighter jet out of the 1st Fighter Wing at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia fired one AIM-9X Sidewinder missile to take out the Chinese spy balloon which had sailed over U.S. territory for most of the week. The balloon fell approximately six miles […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, February 5, 2023 The lingering aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, the widening war in Ukraine and the knock-on effects of food and energy shortages, alongside high inflation battered the world economy in 2022. Reflecting these grim realities, the UN has issued its annual World Economic Situation and Prospects […]
Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, February 3, 2023 Editor’s Note: The following report has been updated: The United States shot down the Chinese balloon off the South Carolina coast on Feb. 4, after it had left U.S. territory. The strategy of confronting China embraced by President Donald Trump vs. the capitulation to the communists of the […]
Special to WorldTribune, February 2, 2023 Commentary by Laurence F Sanford The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses gray zone tactics worldwide to further its interests. It is particularly active against countries that border its seas — the South China Sea and the East China Sea. Countries affected include Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Brunei, Malaysia, […]
FPI / February 1, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher South Africa, China and Russia will hold their second trilateral naval exercise from Feb. 17 to 27, a clear victory for China’s program of militarizing its quasi-alliance structures that could soon create an axis for Africa-South American military cooperation. South Africa abstained from the March 2022 […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 27, 2023 Not only did Team Biden refuse to commit to increasing the U.S. nuclear arsenal in its October 2022 Nuclear Posture Review, it went so far as to cancel the Trump administration’s decision to revive production of the tactical nuclear warhead armed sea-launched Tomahawk cruise missile that would have provided […]
FPI / January 25, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct U.S. leadership is suffering from a severe case of “poverty of ideology,” failing to understand the dominant role of communist ideology in dealing with China, a former top State Department policymaker said in a recent speech. “This Western poverty of ideology has proven self-defeating when we must deal with […]
