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, March 7, 2023 LONDON — In the anxious countdown to the Coronation of King Charles III, the United Kingdom is shadowed by a raft of economic and political woes ranging from the soaring cost of living to an uneasy nervousness of what’s next in the Ukraine war. Though […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler Now a year after Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the UN General Assembly firmly and sternly rebuked Russia’s brutal war against a sovereign country. With a thumping majority of 141 in favor, only 7 against and 32 abstentions, the Assembly again issued a non-binding resolution demanding Russia’s military […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler The military junta which seized power in Burma, aka Myanmar, two years ago remains in power but is increasingly challenged by both its own citizens and targeted economic sanctions. Now a wave of international political pressures is steadily growing to force the junta from power and presumably create […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler It’s a bird. It’s a plane! No, it’s a Chinese “weather balloon” probing American airspace! The fascinating but bizarre Chinese “weather balloon” incident has raised disturbing and very unsettling questions about Beijing’s high-altitude breach of American airspace and indeed sovereignty. More troubling, the incident was not just a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, February 5, 2023 The lingering aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, the widening war in Ukraine and the knock-on effects of food and energy shortages, alongside high inflation battered the world economy in 2022. Reflecting these grim realities, the UN has issued its annual World Economic Situation and Prospects […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler It’s that time of year to gaze into the crystal snow globe and try to see the stories on the horizon which will affect the New Year. Our world remains an increasingly tumultuous place and the tragedy of expanding conflicts is only surpassed by the waves of refugees […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler In a hugely symbolic but stinging rebuke, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been expelled from the UN’s Commission on Women’s Rights. The vote in the 54-member Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) came amid growing global outrage at the Iranian regime’s brutal and bloody crackdown on widening demonstrations […]
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 […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 5, 2022 The alarm of “Global Warming” has given way to the more ambiguous cry of “Climate Change,” but the weather itself has been following the age old pattern of, well, changing in ways that defy forecasting. On the heels of the COP27 climate change conference, which wrapped up last month […]
