by WorldTribune Staff, August 2, 2022 Chinese state-run media reported that Su-35 fighter jets were crossing the Taiwan Strait at around 10:20 p.m. local time (around 10:20 a.m. EST), about the same time U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s delegation landed in Taipei. On the Chinese social media app Weibo, the state-run CCTV Military account also […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 1, 2022 The modern world would have trouble functioning without the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), one of the main suppliers of the world’s most advanced microchips. TSMC chips are present in everything from smartphones to cars to missiles. During the ongoing global supply chain crisis, TSMC’s factories in Taiwan are […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 29, 2022 Chinese supreme leader Xi Jinping on Thursday warned Joe Biden not to “play with fire” by defying the communist regime in Beijing on the Taiwan issue. In what officials say was a two-hour and 17 minute phone call, Xi told Biden that “China firmly opposes separatist moves toward ‘Taiwan […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Michelle Malkin From California to the New York island, from the Redwood Forest to the Gulf stream waters, the land that used to belong to Americans has been milked and bilked by investors and paid government agents of the People’s Republic of China. The National Association of Realtors reported last week […]
FPI / July 28, 2022 Geostrategy-Direct.com By Richard Fisher On July 21, caving to Chinese threats, pressure and concerns from the Pentagon, President Joe Biden publicly discouraged the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, from visiting Taiwan. In doing so, Biden risks encouraging greater Chinese blackmail against the U.S.-Taiwan relationship that could […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 27, 2022 A new poll found that 60 percent of Americans believe China intentionally unleashed the Covid virus and that the communist nation should be held accountable for the subsequent deaths and suffering of millions of Americans. The Committee on the Present Danger: China (CPDC) released the results of the national […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 26, 2022 Joe Biden said unspecified U.S. military brass are advising against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visiting Taiwan in a significant show of weakness by a U.S. leader to communist China which is now widely regarded as the top threat to U.S. national security. Pelosi is scheduled to visit the island […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler The jolting but not unexpected wake-up call came from London. In a rare and unprecedented joint press conference the chiefs of both the British MI5 domestic intelligence service and their American counterpart the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the FBI, presented a riveting account of China’s sweeping intelligence gathering […]
FPI / July 14, 2022 Geostrategy-Direct.com A computer hacker who had obtained a database from a police network in Shanghai which contained records on 1 billion Chinese citizens attempted to sell the database for 10 bitcoin, or about $200,000. The hacker, identified only by the handle “ChinaDan,” appeared on a hacker forum called BreachForums seeking […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk The following by WorldTribune.com columnist Don Kirk, originally appeared in The Hill. The assassination of Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe, deprived the Asia-Pacific region of a statesman whose greatest legacy is that of a staunch foe of China and North Korea. Americans may remember him as pro-American, an […]