by WorldTribune Staff, June 11, 2026 Non-AI Real World News As the saying goes, “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Taiwan’s Kuomintang (KMT) remember the past, are obsessed with it, and have weaponized it, an analysis said. “The Chinese Communist Party offers perhaps the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, May 20, 2026 Amid the spectacle and political pageantry in which Beijing so excels, President Donald Trump and his high-powered American business entourage visited China. The trip to the People’s Republic comes amid rising global tensions, continuing trade frictions and disruption of maritime commerce in the Middle East. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 15, 2026 Non-AI Real World News The small island nation of Taiwan if off the radar screen for most of the world’s population. But as a bastion of democracy, freedom and the cultural values that define the real China, it clearly occupies the mind of Chinese Communist Party dictator Xi Jinping. […]
Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, November 16, 2026 Non-AI Real World News In 2023, during the Biden era, China’s Xi Jinping openly envisioned a future where, along with Russia’s Vladimir Putin and their allies North Korea and Iran, they would dominate the world with help from clients in Venezuela and Cuba. They were “at the height […]
FPI / February 13, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct Gen. Zhang Youxia was purged from his lofty position on China’s Central Military Commission (CMC) because he disagreed with Communist Party chief Xi Jinping on the buildup of the nation’s armed forces by 2027, the deadline Xi set for the military to be ready to use force to take […]
FPI / January 1, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its People’s Liberation Army (PLA) held two days of surprise large scale joint-force coercive military exercises surrounding Taiwan on Dec. 29, 2025 and Dec. 30, even though the PLA Eastern Theater Command on Dec. 28 had stated the exercises would […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 19, 2025 Real World News The Trump Administration on Thursday approved $11.15 billion in arms sale to Taiwan. It is the largest U.S. deal with Taiwan as the democratic island nation faces growing threats from China. President Donald Trump’s National Security Strategy, released last month, reaffirms that Taiwan’s security is integral […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 11, 2025 Real World News In 1955, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill rejected communist propaganda that Taiwan was somehow a domestic matter for China. He insisted instead that Taiwan’s status was, by legal fact and geopolitical reality, an international issue. Churchill, one of the architects of the 1943 Cairo Declaration outlining […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, December 5, 2025 Beijing has gone rhetorically ballistic over comments by Japan’s new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, that a Chinese attack on Taiwan could constitute “a situation threatening Japan’s survival” that thus could trigger a military response. Her statement poses uncharacteristically tough talk from Tokyo at a time […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 11, 2025 Real World News For decades, Japan’s leaders had deferred to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and rarely brought up the geopolitically sensitive Taiwan issue publicly. It was seen as part of Tokyo’s atonement for its invasion and occupation of China in the 1930s and 1940s even though the communists […]
