Having blinked during Trump era, Kim Jong-Un punctuates Biden’s Asia visit with ICBM launch

Having blinked during Trump era, Kim Jong-Un punctuates Biden’s Asia visit with ICBM launch

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler North Korea has been making a lot of noise, but few seemed to notice.  Kim Jong-Un’s reclusive communist regime has fired off  23 missiles since the beginning of the year to the yawns of world opinion.  So, is another North Korean missile showdown creeping up to surprise the […]

Report: Al Gore’s firm invests in Chinese slave labor, censorship

Report: Al Gore’s firm invests in Chinese slave labor, censorship

by WorldTribune Staff, May 30, 2022 Al Gore’s investment fund which is dedicated to environmental and social justice has investments in a company that is profiting from Chinese slave labor, a report said. Inconvenient truth? Here’s another: The $36 billion Generation Investment Management, formed by Gore in 2004 and which claims to “seek transformational change […]

U.S., South Korea to strengthen deterrence in policy shift under Seoul’s new leader

U.S., South Korea to strengthen deterrence in policy shift under Seoul’s new leader

FPI / May 26, 2022 Geostrategy-Direct.com The United States and South Korea have reconfirmed that the U.S. will deploy strategic assets, which could include long-range strategic bombers capable of carrying nuclear weapons, at the appropriate time as a means of deterring the Kim Jong-Un regime’s nuclear buildup. In the summit on May 21, newly elected […]

End of ‘strategic ambiguity?’ Team Biden attempts to explain Joe’s vow on Taiwan in Tokyo

End of ‘strategic ambiguity?’ Team Biden attempts to explain Joe’s vow on Taiwan in Tokyo

by WorldTribune Staff, May 23, 2022 Joe Biden on Monday said the United States would respond militarily to defend Taiwan if China tries to take the island nation by force. Another gaffe or a deliberate effort to reinforce global perceptions of U.S. resolve following Team Biden’s disastrous exit from Afghanistan? During a news conference in […]

‘Weaponized’ rumors? Anger over Shanghai lockdown may have sidelined Xi

‘Weaponized’ rumors? Anger over Shanghai lockdown may have sidelined Xi

FPI / May 18, 2022 Geostrategy-Direct.com Widespread anger over Covid lockdowns in China, including the financial hub Shanghai, has fueled rumors circulating on the mainland and overseas that supreme leader Xi Jinping, who only recently was given the power to essentially lead the communist nation for life, will step down from power. The rumors followed […]

Why China’s military regards Elon Musk as an existential threat

Why China’s military regards Elon Musk as an existential threat

FPI / May 12, 2022 Geostrategy-Direct.com By Richard Fisher On May 5, China’s People Liberation Army Daily (PLAD), which runs the website China Military Online, published a detailed attack on Elon Musk’s growing Starlink constellation. This follows nearly a year of occasional protests after the now 2,200 satellite constellation threatened China’s new manned space station […]

Why the Chinese Communist Party cannot tolerate the Statue of Liberty

Why the Chinese Communist Party cannot tolerate the Statue of Liberty

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, May 6, 2022 Communist authorities in China demanded that, before “Spider-Man: No Way Home” could be distributed in China, Sony would have to delete the Statue of Liberty from the movie’s climactic sequence. Hollywood has in recent years gladly bowed to the demands of Chinese censors. This time, however, Sony refused […]

China again cancels bioweapons meeting with U.S.; New report identifies 2 sites

China again cancels bioweapons meeting with U.S.; New report identifies 2 sites

FPI / May 4, 2022 Geostrategy-Direct.com For the second consecutive year, China has refused to meet with the United States to discuss ongoing concerns over China’s biological weapons activities, the U.S. State Department said in its annual report on arms treaty compliance. The report for the first time also identifies two known Chinese biological weapons […]

Spy scandal compromised U.S.-ROK command bunker in Seoul; Defector claims 120,000 spies in South

Spy scandal compromised U.S.-ROK command bunker in Seoul; Defector claims 120,000 spies in South

by WorldTribune Staff, May 4, 2022 Using a specially-designed spy watch, South Korean operatives working for North Korea compromised a U.S.-South Korea (ROK) Command, Control, Computer, and Intelligence system located in a bunker at the Ministry of National Defense in Seoul, a report said. A South Korean military officer and a defense contractor for IT […]

Warplanes from Russia, China neared South Korean air space hours before ICBM test

Warplanes from Russia, China neared South Korean air space hours before ICBM test

FPI / April 20, 2022 Geostrategy-Direct.com Russian and Chinese military planes flew into South Korea’s air defense zone just as North Korea was set to test-fire an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), a South Korean official said. On March 24, two Russian planes flew into the South’s air defense identification zone (KADIZ) without prior notice, prompting […]

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