‘Tired of living in fear’: Three years after Saigon fell, well-educated ‘boat people’ told their story

‘Tired of living in fear’: Three years after Saigon fell, well-educated ‘boat people’ told their story

Special to WorldTribune, April 30, 2025 By Robert Morton, New York Tribune, June 14, 1978 [Fifty years ago, on April 30, 1975, North Vietnamese military units overwhelmed Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, forcibly ending the war. Three years later, WorldTribune.com‘s editor, then a correspondent, responded when Japan’s Foreign Press Center announced that a ferry […]

Analyst: What’s so great about Chairman Xi Jinping?

Analyst: What’s so great about Chairman Xi Jinping?

by WorldTribune Staff, April 28, 2025 Real World News [Facebook post by Miles Yu, a top White House adviser on China during the first Trump Administration. Yu a former contributing editor for Geostrategy-Direct.com, is Senior Fellow and director of China Center at Hudson Institute.] The myth of sagacious Chinese leadership is laughable when confronted with […]

Xi Jinping’s desperation: What tariff ‘experts’ miss about China’s ‘ponzi scheme’ economy

Xi Jinping’s desperation: What tariff ‘experts’ miss about China’s ‘ponzi scheme’ economy

by WorldTribune Staff, April 27, 2025 Real World News In China, 600 million people live on $5 a day. Many others live on less. But the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) controls the information China’s citizens get and party leader Xi Jinping “will let his own people absorb any amount of hardship. And he’s been telling […]

More security breaches in Korea; Chinese again caught spying on U.S. air base

More security breaches in Korea; Chinese again caught spying on U.S. air base

by WorldTribune Staff, April 25, 2025 Real World News For the second time in three days, the same pair of Chinese nationals on Wednesday were caught filming American fighter jets near a U.S. military installation in South Korea. According to the Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police Agency, the U.S. Army reported the pair, whose names were […]

Analysts: U.S. cannot afford to continue deemphasizing Northeast Asia

Analysts: U.S. cannot afford to continue deemphasizing Northeast Asia

by WorldTribune Staff, April 13, 2025 Real World News A prompt end to the war in Ukraine will allow the U.S. to shift its focus to the all-important Indo-Pacific, an analysis said. “The importance of Northeast Asia cannot be overstated,” Dane Chamorro and Col. Grant Newsham wrote for Forbes on April 10. “The collective GDP […]

Trump tariffs could cripple Chinese shopping apps tied to slave labor

Trump tariffs could cripple Chinese shopping apps tied to slave labor

by WorldTribune Staff, April 13, 2025 Real World News The Chinese shopping apps Shein and Temu, which have made billions of dollars selling low-quality, cheap goods to Americans, are expected to be hit hard by U.S. President Donald Trump’s policies increasing tariffs and duties on products imported from communist China. Shein and Temu, which have […]

Genocide as national policy: A closer look at a secret speech and CCP’s Covid actions

Genocide as national policy: A closer look at a secret speech and CCP’s Covid actions

FPI / April 9, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct The Wuhan Institute of Virology unleashed Covid on the world. The Wuhan Institute of Virology is still in business. And so is communist China’s intent to kill with diseases, an analyst said. “For at least five weeks in December 2019 and January 2020, China tried to deceive the world […]

Conservative South Korean president finally ousted after pursuing election fraud probe

Conservative South Korean president finally ousted after pursuing election fraud probe

by WorldTribune Staff, April 4, 2025 Real World News South Korea’s Constitutional Court on Friday upheld the impeachment of President Yoon-Suk Yeol, a conservative who had declared martial law in an effort to investigate alleged massive election fraud. TV channels showed the acting chief justice, Moon Hyung-Tae, declaring: “The constitutional order and the repercussions from […]

China’s April 1 exercise raises specter of multiple simultaneous wars to thwart U.S.

China’s April 1 exercise raises specter of multiple simultaneous wars to thwart U.S.

FPI / April 2, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher As the Trump Administration builds up U.S. military forces in the Middle East for possible use against Iran-supported Houthi terrorists, deploying the 7th Fleet nuclear carrier U.S.S. Vinson to the Middle East, China’s surprise launching of largescale military drills on April 1 — April Fools Day […]

Top general disappears: Delayed DNI report on CCP corruption called ‘insult’

Top general disappears: Delayed DNI report on CCP corruption called ‘insult’

FPI / March 27, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct U.S. intelligence agencies believe Gen. He Weidong, one of two vice chairmen of the Central Military Commission (CMC), is the latest victim of a political purge in the upper ranks of China’s People’s Liberation Army. His disappearance has been the subject of rumors for a week. The CMC is […]