‘Warfare beyond rules’: Chinese officers envisioned combat by non-military means

‘Warfare beyond rules’: Chinese officers envisioned combat by non-military means

FPI / April 1, 2020 Geostrategy-Direct.com In 1996, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Art Press published “Warfare Beyond Rules”, in which the central premise was that China should prepare to conduct “warfare beyond all boundaries and limitations to defend itself.” The book’s authors, two colonels in the PLA, stated that war may include a blend […]

Student does his homework, calls for CCP to relinquish power, disappears

Student does his homework, calls for CCP to relinquish power, disappears

by WorldTribune Staff, April 1, 2020 A Chinese college student who publicly called for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to relinquish power amid its mishandling of the coronavirus outbreak has reportedly gone missing. Zhang Wenbin, a college senior and programmer from China’s northeastern Shandong Province, posted a video on Twitter on March 30 which said […]

China slams U.S. over its strengthened ties with Taiwan

China slams U.S. over its strengthened ties with Taiwan

by WorldTribune Staff, March 29, 2020 U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a law passed by Congress which aims to strengthen Taiwan’s alliances amid increased pressure from communist China. Even amid the coronavirus outbreak, China in recent weeks has reportedly stepped up its military drills around Taiwan. China has also blocked Taiwan from participating […]

Highly-urbanized Taiwan emerging as coronavirus success story

Highly-urbanized Taiwan emerging as coronavirus success story

by WorldTribune Staff, March 27, 2020 The island nation of Taiwan, with a highly-urbanized population of 24 million, sits about 80 miles from mainland China. Some 1.25 million Taiwanese citizens either live or work on the mainland. In 2019, Taiwan welcomed almost 3 million Chinese visitors. The coronavirus pandemic, however, has not “inflicted the same […]

Long waits to pick up urns in Wuhan raise questions about official death toll

Long waits to pick up urns in Wuhan raise questions about official death toll

by WorldTribune Staff, March 27, 2020 Thousands of urns have reportedly been delivered to funeral homes in Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak. Photos and information circulating on Chinese social media indicate there are long lines of people picking up cremated ashes. The reports call into question the Chinese communist government’s official figures […]

Coronavirus outbreak invites scrutiny of China’s dual-use covert bioweapons program

Coronavirus outbreak invites scrutiny of China’s dual-use covert bioweapons program

FPI / March 27, 2020 Analysis by Paul Crespo While this current novel coronavirus may not have been an engineered bioweapon, it should still focus attention on China’s very real, clandestine, offensive biowarfare research program. Wuhan, the epicenter of the original outbreak, is also the location of China’s first and still only known Bio Safety […]

Wuhan coronavirus provides China global ‘exercise’ in bio weapons defense

Wuhan coronavirus provides China global ‘exercise’ in bio weapons defense

FPI / March 26, 2020 Geostrategy-Direct.com By Richard Fisher There has been ample speculation about the Wuhan coronavirus that may have been first detected near the Chinese city of Wuhan in November 2019 but which has now become a global pandemic claiming over 14,000 lives. It could have emerged from a high technology bioresearch laboratory […]

Who is WHO, really, and is it controlled by communist China?

Who is WHO, really, and is it controlled by communist China?

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, March 26, 2020 From the very start of the coronavirus crisis, the World Health Organization (WHO) has circulated Chinese propaganda about the outbreak. That is not surprising given who the world health body’s current director-general is, reports say. China essentially put Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in charge of the WHO and now […]

Propaganda war: Pro-China Twitter accounts shifted focus from Hong Kong to virus

Propaganda war: Pro-China Twitter accounts shifted focus from Hong Kong to virus

by WorldTribune Staff, March 26, 2020 The Chinese government is engaged in a coordinated influence campaign which uses some 10,000 suspected fake Twitter accounts to spread propaganda and disinformation about the Wuhan coronavirus, a report said. ProPublica reported on March 26 that it has been tracking the fake accounts since August 2019. At first, the […]

Media reports on South Korea’s virus response said to mask real story

Media reports on South Korea’s virus response said to mask real story

by WorldTribune Staff, March 25, 2020 In January, South Korea reportedly sent millions of masks to China amid the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak. Shortly after the Chinese government quarantined the entire city of Wuhan on Jan. 23, South Korea quickly provided China over 6 million masks, in addition to at least 42,000 protective suits, other supplies, […]

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