by WorldTribune Staff, February 21, 2020 A Chinese businessman has floated a $100 billion loan offer to the tiny Pacific island nation of Solomon Islands, a report said. The offer has raised concern over China’s major power grab in the region, especially since the funds represent an amount of money that is nearly 70 times […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 19, 2020 A driving snowstorm and the continued threat of the Wuhan coronavirus could not stop thousands of South Koreans from taking to the streets in Seoul to protest the liberal policies of President Moon Jae-In, who they say is subordinating the country to communism under China and North Korea. The […]
FPI / February 16, 2020 By Lee Cohen The U.S. Department of Justice on Feb. 13 filed new charges against Chinese telecom giant Huawei, accusing it, among other things, of stealing U.S. trade secrets and assisting the Iranian government to spy on protesters as well as illegally doing business with North Korea. Specific charges include […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 16, 2020 One of the young leaders “at the forefront” of the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong has been nominated for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize. Andy Chan Ho-Tin, 29, an outspoken voice in the movement who has been hounded and persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party’s puppets in Hong Kong […]
FPI / February 14, 2020 U.S. President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser suggested that China is not being “honest with us” about its handling of the Wuhan coronavirus. The Trump administration is “a little disappointed in the lack of transparency coming from the Chinese” and “I don’t know what their motives are,” Larry Kudlow told […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 14, 2020 Harvard and Yale over the past four years have failed to disclose some $375 million in gifts and contracts from China and Saudi Arabia, the U.S. Department of Education said on Wednesday. According to the Wall Street Journal, U.S. universities have failed to report they brought in $6.5 billion […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 13, 2020 The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is purging officials from its ranks as the political fallout from the communist government’s handling of the Wuhan coronavirus crisis escalated on Thursday amid a huge increase in the number of reported deaths and infections. The CCP quickly moved to fire the party chief […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 13, 2020 The Philippines announced Tuesday that it would end a security agreement with the United States that has been in place since 1999. Nationalist president Rodrigo Duterte, at times a harsh critic of the United States, has been pivoting back and forth between the U.S. and toward China since entering […]
FPI / February 12, 2020 By establishing a muscular national security posture, Japan has emerged as a key geopolitical partner with the U.S. to contain China. In 2015, Japan’s parliament passed a set of national security laws which allow Japan to exercise the right of collective self-defense under certain, though limited, circumstances. Article nine of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 10, 2020 U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Monday announced the indictment of four members of China’s military on charges of hacking into the credit reporting agency Equifax. A federal grand jury in Atlanta returned a nine-count indictment last week that accused members of China’s People’s Liberation Army of conspiring to […]
