Miles Yu: Don’t neglect to prepare for the collapse of a nuclear-armed Chinese Communist Party

Miles Yu: Don’t neglect to prepare for the collapse of a nuclear-armed Chinese Communist Party

by WorldTribune Staff, September 20, 2026 Non-AI Real World News The United States must be fully prepared for the potential sudden collapse of a nuclear-armed Chinese Communist Party (CCP), China analyst Miles Yu wrote. In a Sept. 14 analysis for Hudson Institute, Yu laid out why such a collapse is a risk: • The CCP […]

Wakeup call: Once anti-U.S. military Okinawa finds itself on the front line of looming Taiwan crisis

Wakeup call: Once anti-U.S. military Okinawa finds itself on the front line of looming Taiwan crisis

by WorldTribune Staff, September 13, 2026 Non-AI Real World News Okinawa’s generally leftist public resentment over hosting U.S. military bases is shifting amid rising geopolitical tensions with China which place the island chain on the front lines of a potential conflict over Taiwan, analysts say. Local sentiment — particularly among younger demographics — is prioritizing […]

Access to South Korea’s power grid by blacklisted Chinese company impacts U.S. forces

Access to South Korea’s power grid by blacklisted Chinese company impacts U.S. forces

by WorldTribune Staff, August 21, 2026 Non-AI Real World News Security analysts have raised alarms regarding a Chinese state-owned entity’s integration into the South Korean energy sector, arguing that allowing the U.S.-blacklisted entity direct access to South Korea’s domestic power grid introduces major national security vulnerabilities for both South Korea and the U.S. military forces […]

President Trump finally plays his Korea card, impacting both North and South

President Trump finally plays his Korea card, impacting both North and South

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, August 17, 2026 Non-AI Real World News President Donald Trump, citing his “very good relationship” with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un and criticizing the leftist government in Seoul’s refusal to support the U.S. military efforts against Iran, has ordered the Department of War to “substantially reduce” major joint military exercises with […]

New U.S. Amb. Michelle Steel undeterred by chilly reception in Seoul

New U.S. Amb. Michelle Steel undeterred by chilly reception in Seoul

Special to WorldTribune, August 10, 2026 Real World News Geostrategy-Direct, August 4, 2026 New U.S. Amb. to South Korea Michelle Steel was born in Seoul in 1955 to parents who fled the North and has advocated for North Korean human rights, countering Chinese influence, and strengthening the U.S.-South Korea alliance. That seemingly appropriate background for […]

China aims racist trope at Philippines for protesting Chinese aggression

China aims racist trope at Philippines for protesting Chinese aggression

Special to WorldTribune, July 23, 2026 Real World News Geostrategy-Direct, July 21, 2026 By Richard Fisher It is not enough that the Philippines has suffered greatly from China’s aggression in the South China Sea (West Philippine Sea), but the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) further diminishes its own humanity by deploying crude racist propaganda tropes to […]

‘Popular rage’: South Koreans’ 24/7 continuous election fraud protest since June 5 at Olympic Park

‘Popular rage’: South Koreans’ 24/7 continuous election fraud protest since June 5 at Olympic Park

by WorldTribune Staff, July 22, 2026 Non-AI Real World News During South Korea’s June 3 local elections, voters at what are considered conservative-leaning polling places were confronted with a lack of ballots. Residents chanted, “Election fraud,” “Invalid election,” and “Stop counting.” Reports on subsequent street protests about multiple election irregularities were carried by some of […]

Impact of small private plane hitting Beijing skyscraper shakes regime’s prized invincibility

Impact of small private plane hitting Beijing skyscraper shakes regime’s prized invincibility

by WorldTribune Staff, July 17, 2026 Non-AI Real World News Significant gaps in China’s heavily guarded airspace were exposed when, on June 26, a small recreational plane crashed into the 109-story CITIC Tower, Beijing’s tallest building. The solo pilot died, and 13 people were injured by falling debris in the central business district. The incident […]

Free speech outlawed in South Korea; State Dept. expresses ‘serious concern’

Free speech outlawed in South Korea; State Dept. expresses ‘serious concern’

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, July 7, 2026 Non-AI Real World News In a taste of what a Kamala Harris (Obama) Administration might have looked like, look to the Far East and the once anti-communist ally of the United States. The administration of leftist South Korean President Lee Jae-Myung on Tuesday continued its assault on free […]

Xi and strategy to control First Island Chain, faces devastating loss of face to … a woman

Xi and strategy to control First Island Chain, faces devastating loss of face to … a woman

by WorldTribune Staff, July 2, 2026 Non-AI Real World News Chinese Communist Party (CCP) chairman Xi Jinping’s grand strategy to control the First Island Chain thus displacing the U.S. as the dominant Pacific power has been publicly challenged by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi. Takaichi declared that a Chinese attack on Taiwan would constitute an […]