Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com There are three major birthdays and anniversaries in this year’s political calendar – and how they will be celebrated says much about the country’s future. The first one is the 60th birthday of President and party General Secretary Xi Jinping, which falls on June 15.The second is the [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com After becoming simultaneously General Secretary and Chairman of the Central Military Commission at the 18th Chinese Communist Party Congress last November, Xi Jinping put it as its top priority to consolidate his power base in the People’s Liberation Army. He also wanted to build up his credentials as [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Lee Jong-Heon, East-Asia-Intel.com North Korean troops have demolished villages near the border with China and forcibly relocated residents to prevent defections that could threaten the Kim Jong-Un regime, sources in Seoul said. “North Korea has been tearing down villages along the Duman (Tumen) River and relocating villagers to places further from the border,” [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com Nothing illustrates better the conservative turn that Chinese politics and foreign policy have taken under the Xi Jinping administration than the way ministers and senior cadres are reviving the credos – and familiar sayings – of Chairman Mao Zedong. Consider the reaction of the new Chinese ambassador to [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — Israel’s leading strategic institute has urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to focus on Iran’s nuclear program in his forthcoming visit to China. The Institute for National Security Studies said the Netanyahu visit to China on May 6, the first in more than six years, marked an opportunity to [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com NEW DELHI — Chinese forces have staged an “intrusion” into Indian territory that would have been top world news had they been North Korean troops straying across the DMZ into South Korea. On China’s outer fringes, a few dozen Chinese troops huddled in tents at an altitude of [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com Willy Lam is traveling. The Chinese government on April 16 published the much anticipated document called “The Diversified Applications of China’s Armed Forces,” commonly known as the Chinese Defense White Paper. The report details the communist country’s defense policy, strategic outlook, services strength, and weapons development. The Chinese [...]
John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — “Asia Pacific economic economies will see subdued growth in 2013 after last year’s sharp slowdown caused by external factors,” is the prognosis from a recent UN survey. “Economic growth in the developing countries of Asia and the Pacific slowed to 5.5 percent in 2012 as a result of the [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com In its just-published White Paper on National Defense, China’s military establishment has revealed new information about the country’s secretive People’s Liberation Army (PLA). For example, the Paper noted that the PLA’s ground forces consisted of 850,000 officers, while the navy and air force had strengths of respectively 235,000 [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com Amid much fanfare, North Korea has advanced to the brink of the dreaded Second Korean War. Now the question is whether there’s a face-saving way to bring about dialogue. Can’t North Korea, at some stage, declare a rhetorical victory and go into negotiations? U.S. Secretary of State John [...]
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