Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, October 25, 2022 There is a curious lack of curiosity when it comes to the close ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) of some U.S. and UK “leaders.” In the United States, “the thought of closely-planted Chinese spies holding sway over elected officials has percolated for years, although none of […]
Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, October 23, 2022 From the point of view of foreign media consumers, the highlight of Xi Jinping’s staged coronation to an unprecedented third term at the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was the awkward and dramatic forced removal from the proceedings of former leader Hu Jintao. As […]
FPI / October 21, 2022 Geostrategy-Direct In the 1999 book “Unrestricted Warfare”, Chinese air force colonels Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui wrote that the communist regime should recognize no limits in what it should do to win a war. With that in mind, it would not be unthinkable that China’s first attack on Taiwan would […]
FPI / October 19, 2022 Geostrategy-Direct A Chinese billionaire linked to large cash payments to Hunter Biden and the Biden family worked for a unit of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) involved in covert influence operations against the United States, a report said. Two studies of Chinese influence operations identified Ye Jianming as part of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 17, 2022 In a major address, Xi Jinping on Sunday hailed his brutal crackdown on Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement and pledged he would never renounce the use of force to take control of Taiwan. In a 100-minute address, significantly shorter than his more than 3-hour speech at the previous Chinese Communist […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 14, 2022 The capabilities of the China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) have advanced to the point that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership “believe China can conduct a short, sharp war (or maybe even a long, sharp war) near its borders and succeed,” an analyst noted. At the 20th Chinese Communist […]
FPI / October 12, 2022 Geostrategy-Direct Between 2015 and 2021, the Pentagon, CDC, and National Institutes of Health (NIH) supplied $28.9 million to Chinese universities and research centers, Governmental Accountability Office (GAO) auditors found. The CDC gave about $15 million and NIH provided $13.6 million, while the Pentagon supplied $400,000 in research funds. The money […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 6, 2022 The Washington, D.C.-based think tank Brookings Institution is essentially recommending that Team Biden refrain from issuing a firm commitment to defend Taiwan. “Credible nuclear threats on behalf of allies and partners, or extended deterrence, will be hard to achieve in a world where China’s nuclear weapons pose an increasingly […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 30, 2022 In order to deter what the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) says is its “new normal” of incursions into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone (ADIZ), the United States, Taiwan, and Japan should “consider a partial wartime mobilization,” an analyst said. For Taiwan, the CCP’s “new normal” represents “a continuous and […]
FPI / September 28, 2022 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher It was a weekend in which globalists should take pause before they nominate the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to succeed the United States as the preferred preeminent source of moral example and power-political leadership. A spate of rumors, driven to some intensity on the Internet by […]