U.S. quietly expels Chinese diplomats after breach at secret Virginia base

U.S. quietly expels Chinese diplomats after breach at secret Virginia base

by WorldTribune Staff, December 16, 2019 The Trump administration has expelled two Chinese diplomats who reportedly breached a U.S. Special Operations base in Virginia. U.S. officials believe at least one of the Chinese officials was an intelligence officer posing with a diplomatic cover, The New York Times reported on Sunday. The Chinese diplomats allegedly went […]

Impeachment brinksmanship? Pyongyang is back to issuing nuclear threats as UN pushes back

Impeachment brinksmanship? Pyongyang is back to issuing nuclear threats as UN pushes back

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — While dictator Kim Jung-Un is huffing and puffing about arbitrary deadlines to diplomatic negotiations between the United States and North Korea concerning Pyongyang’s nuclear and ballistic missile proliferation, the UN Security Council met to deliver a unified call for peace and disarmament on the divided […]

China using 5G tech, supercomputers to control all humans, firms on its turf

China using 5G tech, supercomputers to  control all humans, firms on its turf

FPI / December 12, 2019 Geostrategy-Direct.com Communist China has tested in several of its major cities a new system which uses millions of cameras linked to supercomputers to compile databases on citizens in what critics say is an Orwellian move to control all behavior. The new high-tech system employs 5G, as well as other technology […]

Trump tweets warning to North Korea as tensions increase

Trump tweets warning to North Korea as tensions increase

by WorldTribune Staff, December 8, 2019 Kim Jong-Un risks losing “everything” if the North Korean leader “acts in a hostile way,” U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted on Sunday after the North reported it had carried out a “successful test of great significance.” “Kim Jong-Un is too smart and has far too much to lose, everything […]

Japan’s Marines have returned . . . to defend Senkakus, Okinawa from China

Japan’s Marines have returned . . . to defend Senkakus, Okinawa from China

FPI / December 6, 2019 Geostrategy-Direct.com Rising tension between Japan and China intensifying has led the Japanese Marines to re-form a fighting force that has not been seen since World War II. Concerns that Beijing might seize outlying islands led to the formation in 2018 of the 2,100-man Amphibious Rapid Response Brigade (ARDB), based at […]

World’s leading emitter, China, criticizes U.S. for not doing enough for climate

World’s leading emitter, China, criticizes U.S. for not doing enough for climate

by WorldTribune Staff, December 2, 2019 As many of its cities are covered in thick smog, China, the leading polluter on the planet, is lecturing the United States on climate change. As the annual UN climate conference was set to begin on Monday in Spain, a top Chinese official blasted the U.S. for lacking the […]

Hunger strikes in Seoul over alleged ‘judicial reform’ power-grab by government

Hunger strikes in Seoul over alleged ‘judicial reform’ power-grab by government

by WorldTribune Staff, December 1, 2019 Several South Koreans are going on hunger strikes in front of the presidential Blue House in Seoul to protest what they say is the Moon Jae-In government’s undermining of separation of powers under the guise of “judicial reform.” Tara O, Director at East Asia Research Center, authored a report […]

Hong Kong protesters ‘thankful’ to President Trump

Hong Kong protesters ‘thankful’ to President Trump

by WorldTribune Staff, November 29, 2019 Pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong, many draped in American flags and singing the Star Spangled Banner, held a Thanksgiving rally to convey their appreciation to U.S. President Donald Trump for signing two bills supporting their cause. “The rationale for us having this rally is to show our gratitude and […]

FCC ban targets Huawei equipment near Montana nuclear missile base

FCC ban targets Huawei equipment near Montana nuclear missile base

FPI / November 29, 2019 Geostrategy-Direct.com U.S. companies have been banned by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from using federal funds to purchase equipment from Chinese telecom giants Huawei and ZTE. The FCC announced the ban on Nov. 22, not long after the discovery of Huawei wireless gear near a U.S. nuclear missile base in […]

Hong Kong voters smash China, endorse protesters; 71 percent turnout

Hong Kong voters smash China, endorse protesters; 71 percent turnout

by WorldTribune Staff, November 25, 2019 Voters in Hong Kong on Nov. 24 overwhelmingly chose pro-democracy candidates over their pro-communist China foes. “The people of Hong Kong have spoken – if you abandon Hong Kongers and our struggle for democracy, we will abandon you in the ballot box,” the Hong Kong Democracy Council (HKDC), an […]

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