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 Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com Ok, the North-South talks fizzled when neither could agree on who was truly “ministerial.” Now the question is when, how, or if the talks will happen. No matter, the Xi-Obama summit has to be viewed as a success in view of the post-summit sideshow between negotiators of North [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The United Nations is working urgently to save its depleted and embattled peacekeeping force at the Golan Heights. The UN has been examining the prospect of replacing several of the contingents that withdrew from the UN Disengagement Observers Force in 2013. Over the last six months, Austria, Canada, Croatia and [...]
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 Geostrategy-Direct.com The Laotian government allowed North Korean agents to seize and return a group of 9 North Korean defectors to China. The defectors will likely be transited back to a homeland known for punishing defectors with life sentences in concentration camps. The group, aged 15 to 23, escaped North Korea and went [...]
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 Compiled by Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com There is a New Great Game in Africa and this time it is China and Japan that are competing for influence and favor. The primary tool in this contest is the extraordinarily generous economic aid packages for impoverished African nations. This is not new to both economic [...]
Sol W. Sanders There was less than met the eye at the two-day summit of China’s Xi Jinping and President Barack Obama. Neither party was in a position to tackle the growing list plaguing the relationship between the superpower and the superpower-wannabe. That might or might not have been a product of their particular [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com NEW DELHI — The late “Great Leader” Kim Il-Sung no doubt drew upon the teachings of Mao Zedong when he formulated his philosophy of “juche” or self-reliance, but one word you never hear on visits to North Korea is “Maoism.” If North Korea recognizes Mao Zedong as an [...]
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 [...]
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