by WorldTribune Staff, November 30, 2023 Smartmatic, which is suing numerous media outlets and individuals for defamation related to the 2020 U.S. presidential election, has had its voting technology banned in the Philippines after being caught up in an alleged bribery scandal. The Philippines’ Commission on Elections (COMELEC) on Wednesday said it would ban Smartmatic […]
FPI / November 29, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct Just because Kim Jong-Un is paranoid doesn’t mean a wide variety of North Korean operatives aren’t out to kill him. An active and funded plot to assassinate Kim may have been foiled during the process in which South Korean conservative President Park Geun-Hye was impeached, according to a report. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 19, 2023 Divers with Australia’s navy suffered ear injuries after a Chinese warship ignored warnings of the divers’ presence underwater and used its powerful sonar, officials say. In a statement on Saturday, Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles, who was acting prime minister while Anthony Albanese was in San Francisco for the […]
FPI / November 15, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher While the Biden Administration deserves some credit for holding its temper, enduring numerous Chinese slights, to corral Chinese Communist Party (CCP) supremo Xi Jinping into a real summit on Nov. 15 with President Joe Biden, they are also making the common American mistake of assuming that […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 14, 2023 The Nepalese government announced on Monday it has decided to ban TikTok because the platform was disrupting the South Asian’ country’s “social harmony.” “Considering how TikTok is disrupting our social harmony, and the impact it’s having on our family and social structures, the cabinet has decided to ban TikTok […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 13, 2023 A Chinese state-owned company originally founded by Blackwater’s Erik Prince is apparently offering VIP executive protection services with special operations capabilities in Taiwan, a report said. Frontier Services Group is now advertising on LinkedIn for an “Executive Protection Agent” for Taipei, Wendell Minnick wrote in a Nov. 12 Substack.com […]
FPI / November 8, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct Hamas’s simultaneous incursions by air, land, and sea, in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel rang alarm bells in South Korea as it employed strategies long pursued by North Korea. Hamas used paragliders for aerial infiltration and moved through an extensive network of underground tunnels spanning the Gaza Strip […]
FPI / November 3, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct China flew one of its fighter jets dangerously close to a U.S. B-52 bomber last week, American military officials said. The disclosure of the Oct. 24 incident, in which the Chinese jet flew “within 10 feet” of the U.S. bomber was the first time the U.S. military revealed a […]
FPI / November 1, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct Tech behemoth Apple is known for altering its policies to avoid running afoul of censors in communist China. What are the implications? Apple has censored products and apps in Hong Kong and Taiwan that were opposed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Some of Apple’s iCloud data is parked […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 27, 2023 The head of a New Zealand political party has cited leaked documents as saying that tens of thousands of the country’s population have died from the Covid injections. Liz Gunn, head of NZ Loyal, is one of few politicians in New Zealand who has spoken out about the number […]