FPI / September 3, 2020 Geostrategy-Direct.com China now has the largest navy in the world, is on track to double its stockpile of nuclear warheads and intends to expand foreign military bases capable of attacking the United States, the Pentagon said. The communist nation’s military buildup is a worrying sign that Beijing is seeking global […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler Nearly six months into the Covid-19 pandemic, the United States remains mired in the nebulous haze of the “invisible enemy,” suffering greatly both physically and emotionally. We have been battered and bruised economically and most of all psychologically. And all this in the midst of a contentious presidential […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 31, 2020 (Remarks by David R. Stilwell, State Department’s Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, to the Heritage Foundation on Aug. 31.) I am very pleased to have the opportunity to talk about Taiwan, one of America’s most reliable partners in the Indo-Pacific, and indeed the world. It […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has spoken with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy about U.S. concerns over China’s attempt to purchase a Ukrainian engine manufacturer, the State Department said on Aug. 29. Pompeo raised concerns over “malign” Chinese investment in Ukraine, including Beijing’s efforts to acquire […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 30, 2020 Communist China, which has a long track record of violating laws of the sea, now has a seat on a tribunal which settles international disputes on the sea. Duan Jielong was selected by the United Nations to serve a nine-year term as a judge to the International Tribunal for […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 27, 2020 Chinese communist authorities arrested 12 Hong Kong residents who were attempting to sail to Taiwan to apply for political asylum, Hong Kong media reported. China’s provincial Coast Guard Bureau said in a post on its social media site that the boat was intercepted and the people on board were […]
FPI / August 26, 2020 Geostrategy-Direct.com By Richard Fisher The People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) invasion strategy for Taiwan relies heavily on the mobilization of large civilian transport ships that would move the bulk of the troops and supporting armor and logistic supplies, to put enough forces on the island democracy to force its surrender or […]
FPI / August 21, 2020 Commentary by Jason Orestes Luckin Coffee, a Chinese company listed in the U.S. was once worth nearly $13 billion before it was unearthed that half of its sales, some $300 million, was fraudulent. The stock plummeted well over 90 percent and decimated U.S. investors. This isn’t an isolated incident. Chinese […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 19, 2020 The coronavirus “almost certainly escaped” from a lab in the Chinese city of Wuhan, according to researchers with the Bioscience Resource Project. Virologist Jonathan Latham and molecular biologist Allison Wilson traced what they contend is the origin of covid to six miners who, in 2012, came down with a […]
FPI / August 19, 2020 Commentary by Paul Crespo (Part 2 in a series on Joe Biden’s family history which includes drugs, crime and corruption.) As shown in Part I on the Biden family, Joe Biden’s son, Hunter is an absolute train wreck of a man, with a lifelong history of alcohol and drug abuse, […]