Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com The case of NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden has drawn the world’s attention to the extent to which Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership can influence the decision of the authorities of the Hong Kong special administrative region (SAR). Yet Beijing’s concern over the former British colony goes way beyond [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com Compiled by Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Japanese investment in China last year exceeded $70 billion. There are 14,000 Japanese companies in China. But that may be about to change because Japan is poised to leave China for India, adding huge benefits to the South Asian country in terms of jobs creation, technological transfer, [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Lee Jong-Heon, East-Asia-Intel.com SEOUL — The surprising expulsion of young North Korean asylum-seekers by the Laotian government was a result of Pyongyang’s aggressive diplomacy under leader Kim Jong-Un, sources here said. The nine North Korean defectors, who are believed to all be orphans and aged between 14 and 18, made their way to [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com Given the apparent ease with which President Xi Jinping has consolidated his hold on power, it is perhaps not surprising that the princeling (a reference to the offspring of party elders) is actively nurturing the careers of younger members of the “red aristocracy.” In the past year, several [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Lee Jong-Heon, East-Asia-Intel.com SEOUL — North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un’s powerful uncle Jang Song-Thaek, who has been in the background during the regime’s months-long militant rhetorical offensive, could be in the spotlight as Pyongyang shifts to the dialogue mode, sources here said. The recent China visit by Kim’s special envoy for a briefing [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com The usually deferential official Chinese media has characterized Premier Li Keqiang performance during his just-completed four-nation visit as “Li-style diplomacy.” The last leg of Li’s first overseas trip as head of government – a mere two-day stopover in Berlin – has demonstrated the hard edge of enhanced hard-power [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com Compiled by Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Russia’s Prime Minster Dmitri Medvedev suggested recently that he might step down soon in another clear sign that the government he has been leading is in growing conflict with the increasingly imperial and impetuous President Vladimir Putin. Speaking to an audience on the Russian TV station HTB [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Lee Jong-Heon, East-Asia-Intel.com SEOUL — North Korea is thought to be progressing with the development of KN-02 ballistic missiles and is also testing longer range 300 mm-caliber rockets that can reach beyond Seoul to strike U.S. bases, military sources here said. The North launched six short-range projectiles from the country’s east coast — [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com Premier Li Keqiang’s just-completed trip to India has revealed a new thinking in Chinese diplomacy regarding its neighbors. The six-month-old administration of President Xi Jinping, who also heads the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) Leading Group on Foreign Affairs, has decided to go soft on India and ASEAN while [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com Compiled by Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com For the first time in a decade, a large combat fleet from Russia’s Pacific Fleet based in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East is joining other Russian warships in the Mediterranean on a combat patrol. The mission was apparently prompted by Russia’s determined desire to sustain the [...]
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