FPI / May 13, 2020 Geostrategy-Direct.com Kim Jong-Un’s long-awaited and much-publicized return to the public eye on May 1 was reportedly cobbled together on very short notice. The North Korean leader’s attendance at the completion ceremony of the Sunchon Phosphatic Fertilizer Factory was put together two days before the actual event, the Daily NK reported […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 10, 2020 Chinese supreme leader Xi Jinping made a personal plea to the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) to delay the release of critical information regarding the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, German intelligence reported. Xi spoke with WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Jan. 21 to press the WHO to […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 8, 2020 Suspicions of election fraud arose last month after South Korea’s general election, a report said. The ruling party of leftist President Moon Jae-In won by a landslide in a parliamentary election last month that attracted the highest voter turn out in 28 years, despite being held during the coronavirus pandemic. […]
FPI / May 6, 2020 Geostrategy-Direct.com The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is using the Wuhan coronavirus to advance its geostrategic position, an analyst said. While other nations are distracted in coping with the virus, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has stepped up activities in the First Island Chain, which extends from Japan through the Ryukyus, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 5, 2020 Amid the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak in December and January, China destroyed laboratory evidence and silenced whistleblower doctors, an Australian newspaper reported, citing a Western intelligence report. The Australian Saturday Telegraph said the report is by the so-called “Five Eyes” intelligence-sharing consortium of Australia, New Zealand, Canada, United States and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 3, 2020 Photos and video released on May 1 by official North Korean media show dictator Kim Jong-Un appearing at a ceremony at a new industrial complex. But doubts that things were back to normal in the far-from-normal “hermit kingdom” were punctuated by gunfire from the North at a South Korean […]
FPI / April 30, 2020 Geostrategy-Direct.com By Richard Fisher China has largely managed to convince all U.S. administrations from Richard Nixon through Barack Obama to slight American interests over those of China. That stopped with President Donald Trump, but before 2017 and since the 1980s, China’s rise was largely unfettered by Washington as Beijing emerged […]
FPI / April 30, 2020 Analysis by Paul Crespo Even before the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) ran one of the most sophisticated and intrusive police states in the world. Its high-tech surveillance systems employ advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) to process and analyze massive amounts of data collected from various technologies. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 28, 2020 North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un is not dead, but went into seclusion after at least one of his bodyguards tested positive for the Wuhan coronavirus, South Korea’s JoongAng Daily (KJD) reported on Sunday, citing a Chinese source “familiar with North Korean affairs.” Kim Jong-Un’s absence from public life had […]
WorldTribune, April 23, 2020 Analysis by Paul Crespo China may lose big as foreign firms relocate out of the country and move elsewhere in the aftermath of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is most concerned about the large-scale business withdrawal from U.S. and Japanese firms operating in China. As noted […]