by WorldTribune Staff, February 2, 2020 China’s communist party regime is facing perhaps its biggest crisis yet in the coronavirus outbreak, reports say. The death toll could be much higher than reported according to a report by Hong Kong-based news outlet Initium Media, which alleged the Chinese Communist government is secretly cremating victims of the […]
FPI / January 29, 2020 Geostrategy-Direct.com By Richard Fisher “What the hell had the Wuhan mayor and the Party committee secretary doing?” This was the anguished plea of a citizen of the city of Wuhan, who had to circumvent considerable Chinese control over the Internet to post this plea condemning his government’s and the Chinese […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 27, 2020 Honda Motor Co. announced on Tuesday it is joining an initiative led by White House adviser Ivanka Trump aimed at boosting U.S. job training opportunities. Honda, the third largest Japanese automaker, said it will provide expanded job training opportunities to 50,000 workers in Ohio by 2025. Honda reccently announced […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — East Asian countries continue to be global leaders in economic growth despite ongoing trade tensions between the USA and China. Nonetheless, even among those dynamic Asian states, growth has tempered from 5.7 percent in 2018 to 5.2 percent in 2019 amid an international downshift. The […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 22, 2020 The freshly minted Phase 1 of the U.S.-China trade deal will not stop the U.S. government from pursuing criminal cases against Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei, officials say. Huawei is the subject of criminal cases in New York and Washington state. “The Huawei prosecution in New York, it’s a sanctions […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 21, 2020 The catastrophic bushfires in Australia have claimed at least 28 lives, destroyed more than 2,600 homes and scorched more than 25.7 million acres. Leftists blame human-caused climate change for the fires, with conservative Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison being a favorite target of progressive anger. “The PM has faced […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk A detail generally overlooked in all we’ve been reading about the misfired Iranian missile that brought down the Ukraine airliner with 176 people aboard: It was almost certainly made in North Korea and sold to Iran or made in Iran from a North Korean design and technology. The relationship […]
Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, January 16, 2020 What was the real “historic” moment in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday? Was it when partisan impeachment articles were delivered to the Senate in what conservative observers termed a bizarre ritual? Or, might it have been when President Donald Trump and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He signed phase one […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 16, 2020 China needs to respect the reality that Taiwan is an independent nation, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen said on Wednesday. “We don’t have a need to declare ourselves an independent state,” Tsai told the BBC. “We are an independent country already and we call ourselves the Republic of China, Taiwan.” […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk The killing of Qasem Soleimani by an American drone aircraft on orders from U.S. President Donald Trump as the Iranian general arrived in Baghdad to spur on Iran-backed Iraqi militia against the U.S. confronts Kim Jong-Un with serious problems. The first is that North Korea cannot publicize the episode […]
