by WorldTribune Staff, June 26, 2020 Germany appears reluctant to take sides amid increasing tensions between the United States and China. “Of all advanced economies outside Asia, Germany has the deepest economic ties in both camps and would have the most to lose from a Cold War between Washington and Beijing,” the Wall Street Journal […]
FPI / June 24, 2020 Commentary by Jason Orestes America is essentially the only major power standing up to China’s 5G expansion. The Trump administration has campaigned fiercely to dissuade its allies against the use of Huawei, which it rightfully accuses of being an extension of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that will operate under […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 24, 2020 A Venezuelan actress who is currently living in the United States told her followers on TikTok why she is concerned to see statues being torn down and roads being renamed in America. Elizabeth Rogliani said in the June 22 post: “Why do I even worry about some silly little […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 23, 2020 A violent mob chanting “Allahu Akbar” attacked police and went on a rampage of looting and destruction on Saturday after a German teenager was arrested for a drug offense, sparking what locals said were the worst ever riots in Stuttgart. Of the 24 people arrested, 12 were foreign nationals […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty An Iranian cargo ship carrying food has docked in Venezuela’s capital, Iranian state news agency IRNA reported on June 22, amid a scarcity of basic goods in the South American country. The goods are to stock the first Iranian supermarket in Venezuela, Iran’s Embassy in Caracas […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 22, 2020 The Rand Corporation in a new report notes there is “strong evidence” that the Chinese communist government’s reporting of coronavirus cases in January of this year was “undercounted by a factor of nearly 40.” Rand said that “based on officially reported cases in China in January 2020, the odds […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 22, 2020 Emissions are likely to decrease in 2020 due to the coronavirus, but the world would need many more pandemics to offset China’s voracious appetite for coal, analysts say. BP’s chief executive Bernard Looney wrote in a LinkedIn post that in order to get to net zero emissions by 2050, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 21, 2020 French President Emmanuel Macron said he will not allow rioters to destroy statues or “rewrite” France’s history. “We will be inflexible when it comes to tackling racism, anti-Semitism and discrimination, and new strong decisions will be made to reinforce the egality of chances,” Macron said, according to a translation […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 18, 2020 In April and May, as the world was dealing with the coronavirus pandemic which China was responsible for spreading worldwide, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) was practicing blockade operations around Taiwan, with aircraft carriers and destroyers of the PLA Navy cooperating with anti-ship-missile-carrying H-6K bombers, about 100 of which […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 17, 2020 The Trump administration has imposed sweeping new sanctions on Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, his government, and his wife. The U.S. State Department on Wednesday announced new penalties on Syria, which personally target Assad and his wife Asma Assad as Syira faces a deepening economic crisis and rare protests in […]
