by WorldTribune Staff, March 25, 2020 In an appeal he sent to the world’s 223 cardinals, Cardinal Joseph Zen, the retired Bishop of Hong Kong, warned that the Catholic Church in China is being “murdered” by the communist regime while the Vatican stands idly by. “A totalitarian regime doesn’t compromise,” Zen said. “They want complete […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 25, 2020 Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach on Tuesday announced that the 2020 Summer Olympic Games will be postponed for about one year due to the coronavirus crisis. The opening ceremony had been planned for July 24 in Tokyo. “[T]he IOC president and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 24, 2020 In its massive propaganda campaign aimed at deflecting responsibility for the coronavirus outbreak, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is finding a compliant ally in the U.S. corporate media, analysts say. “China’s state-run propaganda outlets are using coronavirus coverage by U.S. media and Democratic politicians to push the regime narrative […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 24, 2020 Health officials in Japan said the country has done “quite well” in getting the coronavirus outbreak under control. The state of emergency has been lifted on Hokkaido, the northernmost prefecture that was hit hardest by the outbreak. A panel guiding Japan’s coronavirus response recommended late on Thursday that schools […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 23, 2020 U.S. President Donald Trump has offered to help North Korea in its fight against the coronavirus, the sister of dictator Kim Jong-Un said on Sunday. Kim Yo-Jong, first vice department director of the Central Committee of the North’s Workers’ Party, said in a statement carried by the official Korean […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 22, 2020 In late December, health officials in Taiwan say they warned the World Health Organization (WHO) about the infectivity of the coronavirus. Weeks after receiving Taiwan’s warning, on Jan. 14, WHO repeated China’s claim that coronavirus was not contagious among humans. Since 1971, China has periodically blocked Taiwan’s membership in […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 18, 2020 The communist government in Beijing should be focused on stopping the coronavirus rather than spreading false information about the origins of the Wuhan virus while at the same time kicking American journalists out of China, the U.S. National Security Council (NSC) said on Wednesday. The statement from the NSC […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 16, 2020 A real estate tycoon who publicly criticized Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership over the government’s handling of the Wuhan coronavirus has reportedly gone missing. Ren Zhiqiang, whose outspoken comments on social media had earned him the nickname “the cannon,” wrote in a recent essay that supreme leader Xi Jinping […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 13, 2020 The outrageous claim by China’s Foreign Ministry that the U.S. Army sent the coronavirus to China is meant to deflect attention from the fact that the center of Beijing’s biological weapons program is based in Wuhan, which has the most cases of the virus, a report said. A Chinese […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 12, 2020 The island nation of Taiwan has just 47 confirmed cases of coronavirus despite its close proximity to China, Japan and South Korea, three countries with some of the world’s worst outbreaks of the Wuhan virus. As news of the new virus was breaking, Taiwan’s government introduced a travel ban […]