China’s richest man to Trump: I’ll take Hollywood, Americans can keep their jobs

China’s richest man to Trump: I’ll take Hollywood, Americans can keep their jobs

by WorldTribune Staff, December 12, 2016 The Chinese tycoon who is on a Hollywood spending spree sent a message to President-elect Donald Trump: 20,000 jobs will stay in the U.S. as long as nothing “goes wrong.” Wang Jianlin, China’s richest man and chairman of real estate and entertainment giant Dalian Wanda Group, said: “I met […]

Strategic surprise: With Dec. 2 Taiwan call, Trump challenges China’s breakout from containment

Strategic surprise: With Dec. 2 Taiwan call, Trump challenges China’s breakout from containment

Special to WorldTribune.com By Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs The Dec. 2, telephone conversation between Republic of China (ROC: Taiwan) President Tsai Ing-wen and U.S. President-elect Donald J. Trump very deliberately ushered in a new era in U.S. engagement in Asia, one designed to stop the rapid decline in U.S. credibility and […]

Iran’s defense chief warns Trump team: War will cause ‘destruction’ of Israel, Gulf states

Iran’s defense chief warns Trump team: War will cause ‘destruction’ of Israel, Gulf states

by WorldTribune Staff, December 12, 2016 Death and destruction to Iran’s neighbors will be the result if U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s policies lead to war in the Middle East, Iran’s defense minister said on Dec. 11. “Enemies may want to impose a war on us based on false calculations and only taking into consideration their […]

Shakedowns of corporations by EPA seen ending under Trump administration

Shakedowns of corporations by EPA seen ending under Trump administration

by WorldTribune Staff, December 11, 2016 Many environmentalists are having a meltdown over President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to head up the EPA, and it “has nothing to do with climate change,” radio host Erick Erickson said on Dec. 8. The left insists that Trump’s pick, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, is a climate change denier […]

Iran reports it has finalized deal to buy 80 Boeing jetliners

Iran reports it has finalized deal to buy 80 Boeing jetliners

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Iran’s national carrier has reached an agreement with U.S. firm Boeing to buy 80 aircraft worth $16.6 billion, the Iranian state-run news agency IRNA reports. IRNA quotes Iran Air Chief Executive Officer Farhad Parvaresh as saying representatives of both companies signed off on the purchase of […]

U.S. Congress passes ‘Global Magnitsky Rights’ defense bill in jab at Putin

U.S. Congress passes ‘Global Magnitsky Rights’ defense bill in jab at Putin

Special to WorldTribune.com By Mike Eckel, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty The U.S. Congress has backed legislation giving the president new, broader authority to impose sanctions on human rights abusers worldwide, building on an earlier law that has infuriated the Kremlin. The measure, formally known as the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act, passed […]

Grading this administration on Obama’s own report card

Grading this administration on Obama’s own report card

by WorldTribune Staff, December 9, 2016 After President Barack Obama delivered a summary of his achievements during his 2016 State of the Union address, the White House issued a press release with a list of the president’s accomplishments in his two terms. Victor Davis Hanson, a classicist and historian with the Hoover Institution at Stanford […]

Seventy-five years after the ‘day of infamy,’ a new challenge from the Far East

Seventy-five years after the ‘day of infamy,’ a new challenge from the Far East

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — On December 7, 1941, the United States was shocked and stunned from its nervous neutrality and thrust into the crucible of the Second World War. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor instantly changed the narrative for American involvement in WWII which had already been raging […]

U.S. military and both Korean armies on alert as ‘progressives’ flood the streets of Seoul

U.S. military and both Korean armies on alert as ‘progressives’ flood the streets of Seoul

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk The many thousands of protesters who’ve been marching toward the walls of the restored palace of Korea’s dynastic kings toward the Blue House of latter-day presidents have been ignoring a likely target. That’s the American embassy, looming large, brightly lit and carefully protected by hundreds of policemen and dozens […]

Geostrategy-Direct: Panic in China at early signals from Trump administration

Geostrategy-Direct: Panic in China at early signals from Trump administration

“China has been ripping the U.S. off left and right, and we are going to push back without any hesitation,” said Donald Trump as the GOP presidential candidate. As President-elect Trump’s cabinet nominee team takes shape, Beijing is beginning to panic over an imminent new reality: The new administration’s reaction against China will be swift […]