Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, March 13, 2023 The theatrical pomp and circumstance of China’s National People’s Congress presents an annual political ritual on the verge of Spring. Nearly 3,000 delegates assembled in Beijing to participate in the week long sessions and delivered-on-demand results for the ruling Communist Party leadership; formalizing the unprecedented […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler A powerful wind from the East is blowing across the Arabian desert. During a significant but overlooked three-day visit to Saudi Arabia, China’s leader Xi Jinping has scored a “strategic partnership” with oil rich and strategic Saudi Arabia. For China in its presumably post-COVID era, the focus remains […]
Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, December 8, 2022 In what many observers are calling the worst trade in history, Team Biden has swapped notorious Russian arms smuggler Viktor Bout, known as the “Merchant of Death,” for an America-hating WNBA star in Brittney Griner who just happens to check all the right boxes. Joe Biden signed the […]
Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, October 13, 2022 Oh no. Joe Biden is being accused of lobbying Saudi Arabia to postpone cuts in OPEC’s oil production until after the 2022 midterm elections. If true, and the Saudi Ministry of Foreign affairs hinted it was in a Thursday statement, then Biden did what President Donald Trump was […]
FPI / July 20, 2022 Geostrategy-Direct.com By Steve Rodan, China in the Middle East Mohammed Bin Salman is young, brash and ruthless. What sets him apart from his Saudi colleagues is that he is the de facto ruler of the biggest crude oil exporter in the world. After years of stagnation, the Gulf Arab kingdom, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com by John J. Metzler In another stunning breakthrough for Middle East peace, the Kingdom of Morocco has recognized Israel. The latest diplomatic deal was orchestrated in the waning weeks of the Trump Administration’s first term, but built upon September’s surprising Abraham Accords where three other Arab countries, including the United Arab Emirates, […]
Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, October 19, 2020 A new survey has found that President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan which endorses a pathway to normalized relations with Israel is widely supported by Arabs in countries that would be affected. In the Zogby Research Services poll, 7 in 10 respondents in Saudi Arabia, the United […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 21, 2020 U.S. President Donald Trump said he expects Saudi Arabia will join the deal brokered by the Trump administration last week in which Israel and the United Arab Emirates agreed to normalize diplomatic ties. “I do,” Trump replied when asked at a White House news conference if he expected Saudi […]
FPI / March 31, 2020 Analysis by Paul Crespo The ongoing oil price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia has a significant impact on U.S. national security that few in the media seem to understand. Thanks greatly to the rebirth of the domestic shale oil and gas industry, the U.S. became fully energy independent at […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 17, 2020 Saudi Arabia and Russia are flooding the market with oil in a “direct attack” on U.S. producers, oil tycoon Harold Hamm said. “They’re taking advantage of this coronavirus pandemic that’s sweeping the world to focus in on this industry and devastate it,” Hamm, founder and executive chairman at Oklahoma […]
