Special to WorldTribune.com By Michelle Malkin Here’s the thing about Mitch McConnell and Elaine Chao. The granddaddy of Republican Beltway barnacles has inhabited the nation’s capital in one form or another since 1968, when he worked as a Senate legislative aide. His wife, the daughter of a Beijing-kowtowing shipping mogul, snagged her first job in […]
FPI / August 17, 2022 Geostrategy-Direct.com In the aftermath of a weak Biden administration response to China’s aggressive blockade exercises against Taiwan following the visit of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the pressure to maintain deterrence in the region has fallen squarely on one man, U.S. Indo-Pacific commander Adm. John Aquilino. “The destabilizing actions by […]
FPI / August 12, 2022 Geostrategy-Direct.com Communist China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology carried out gain-of-function research on a virus that is much deadlier than Covid-19, according to recent testimony before the U.S. Senate. Steven Quay, a medical doctor, told the Senate Governmental Affairs subcommittee on emerging threats that the Wuhan lab, where the coronavirus is […]
Special to WorldTribune, August 11, 2022 Commentary by Laurence Sanford Far from being defeated in the Cold War, Marxism has now penetrated our national DNA and corporate boardrooms through America’s own cultural and educational systems. “E pluribus unum” or “out of many, one” is America’s national motto. Now due to wokeness, it is evolving into […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk The following by WorldTribune.com columnist Don Kirk, originally appeared in The Hill. The visit to Asia by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi exposed one reality that many people did not realize: The United States cannot count on its ally, the Republic of Korea, for support if war breaks out in the Taiwan Straits. The United States, […]
FPI / August 10, 2022 Geostrategy-Direct.com By Richard Fisher The Biden Administration’s weak response to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s desire to visit Taiwan has been compounded by its weak response to China’s ongoing threatening exercises against Taiwan. This all but guarantees that China will increase its pressure on Taiwan, undermining America’s stature and deterrent power […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 7, 2022 Former President Donald Trump’s keynote address at CPAC conference in Dallas Saturday was spirited and upbeat as always but conveyed a somber message as well and an agenda for a new Republican Party “that will transform American politics forever.” The major networks and cable news outlets did not carry […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler Despite their huffing, puffing, and threatening, regarding the short but symbolic visit of U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi to what China deems a “renegade province,” Taiwan, the Beijing Dragon blinked. Nancy Pelosi’s landmark if controversial visit to Taiwan went forward, and then it was […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Analysis by Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs, August 5, 2022 Communist Party of China (CPC) General Secretary Xi Jinping’s internal civil war against his party rivals in the build-up to the XXth CPC National Congress — now likely to occur in November 2022 — took on new dimensions with […]