by WorldTribune Staff, November 16, 2016 Chinese President Xi Jinping sees the need for global Internet standards – as long as they don’t infringe on any country’s “cyber sovereignty.” “The development of the Internet knows no international boundaries. The sound use, development and governance of the Internet thus calls for closer cooperation,” Xi said in […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk An air of unreality pervaded the atmosphere if not the skies over Osan Air Base this week as three of the niftiest warplanes on the planet zoomed off the runway for war games intended to strengthen their ability to work together to defeat a common foe. Circumspectly, officers of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 9, 2016 While world leaders were quick to congratulate Donald Trump for his historic victory on Nov. 8, shell-shocked foreign policy types were not so sure the sun would come up on Nov. 9 as President Barack Obama had assured. Egyptian President Abdul Fatah Sisi was the first leaders to phone […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 7, 2016 Can U.S. national security survive another dose of Clinton governance? Bill Clinton said of his wife during the 1992 campaign for the White House that he was offering “two for the price of one.” The same likely applies to Hillary Clinton who would return a former president to the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 7, 2016 Chinese officials, usually hesitant to jump into U.S. politics, have twice in recent days criticized Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump over his threat to back out of a global climate accord. “If Trump were to insist on doing things his own way, then he would pay a heavy price […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Geostrategy-Direct While a signer to the UN sanction measures against North Korea after Pyongyang’s repeated nuclear and missile tests, China is stepping up its economic and energy assistance to Pyongyang. Using humanitarian assistance as a pretext, Beijing is building multiple bridges over the border waterway of the Tumen River to increase […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk [Editors’ note: South Korean President Park Geun-Hye, the country’s first female president, is facing her biggest political crisis since coming to power in 2013. A close female friend, Choi Soon-Sil, 60, is accused of selling influence. She is the daughter of late religious leader Choi Tae-Min, who befriended Park […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk Rodrigo Duterte was reputed as a killer long before his election as president of the Philippines five months ago. He countenanced the slaughter of hundreds of drug addicts and dealers while mayor of Davao, the major port city on the rebel-infested southern island of Mindanao, and has applauded the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk We hear so much about China and Japan competing on and for the Korean peninsula, now and historically, that we overlook one other great Northeast Asian power. That would be Russia, which has a 17-kilometer border with North Korea as the Tumen River flows into the sea. In the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 14, 2016 Hillary Clinton warned that if Beijing didn’t “control” North Korea the U.S. would “ring China with missile defense.” The Chinese military was “the biggest supporters of a provocative North Korea. So China, come on. You either control them or we’re going to have to defend against them,” the former […]
