by WorldTribune Staff, May 15, 2023 The National Election Commission (NEC), a constitutional independent institution established to manage South Korea’s elections, has refused to cooperate with an investigation into North Korea hacking attempts made on the NEC and the equipment it uses which is used in other nations’ elections, a report said. In the past […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 12, 2023 The Chinese Communist Party’s brutal crackdown on political and civil rights has made it unsafe to do business in Hong Kong, the son of an imprisoned media tycoon toldd multinational corporations in an address to a U.S. congressional hearing on Thursday. “It should be a warning for all foreign […]
FPI / May 10, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct Berkshire Hathaway recently divested 86 percent of its more than $4 billion in the Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC. Berkshire chairman and CEO Warren Buffeft told company shareholders the reason was ongoing geopolitical tensions over Taiwan. TSMC “is a marvelous company,” Buffett said during Berkshire’s annual meeting, but “I would feel […]
FPI / May 3, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher After a decade of North Korea’s and China’s alarming nuclear and missile buildup, plus nuclear and missile tests, a poll from the South Korean firm Data Research released on March 1, 2023 stated that 70 percent of South Koreans support indigenous development of nuclear weapons. On […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 2, 2023 Kim Yo-Jong, sister of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un and a top official in the communist regime, hurled a series of insults at Joe Biden this past weekend, accusing the 80-year-old occupant of the White House of endangering America with his “senility” and being incapable of serving through 2024. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, April 28, 2023 Seventy years is a long time, especially for a military alliance even between friends. There are few in the world, notably including the Atlantic Alliance, forming NATO in 1949. But in the case of East Asia, the strategic and economic links which emerged from the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 26, 2023 In January, South Korea’s new conservative leader, President Yoon Suk-Yeol, ruffled feathers in Washington when he said the South could develop its own nuclear weapons or ask the U.S. to redeploy nukes on the Korean Peninsula if the threat from North Korea grows. No South Korean leader had explicitly […]
FPI / April 26, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Following the April 20 spectacular SpaceX test explosion, China made an announcement that did not receive much media attention. Soon after SpaceX Corporation’s first full two-stage test of its revolutionary super heavy Starship reusable space launch vehicle and also the world’s largest SLV, China revealed that […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 16, 2023 A key part of China’s Taiwan invasion would entail sending a “dark fleet” of spy ships disguised as cargo vessels or fishing boats to cut off the island nation’s access to the Internet by severing underwater cables. Analysts say the communist regime in Beijing has already carried out a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, April 12, 2023 Taiwan’s vibrant but threatened democracy had a good week. After months of facing ominous political threats from the Chinese communists which may eventually culminate in Beijing’s invasion of the self-governing island, Taiwan seemed sure footed diplomatically with a little help from its friends. Taiwan’s President […]
