Special to WorldTribune.com Atheist China has had no official relations with the Vatican since 1951, but that may soon change. While the paths of Pope Francis and Chinese President Xi Jinping did not cross when both men recently visited the United States, both the Vatican and Chinese officials have signaled a warming of relations. Francis […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Xi Jinping’s Chinese Communist Party regime did not care for a tweet by Democrat front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton. Clinton, seeking her party’s 2016 presidential nomination, tweeted on Sept. 27: “Xi hosting a meeting on women’s rights at the UN while persecuting feminists? Shameless.” An editorial in the Global Times responded by comparing […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Both Pope Francis and China’s President are visiting the United States at the same time. Two men whose paths will nearly intersect, but not touch, in New York at the United Nations are each leaders of 1.2 billion people; the Pope of the Roman Catholic […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Chinese dissident and top civil rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng said he was brutally tortured during three years confined in prison and could barely walk upon his release in August 2014. “Every time we emerge from the prison alive, it is a defeat for our opponents,” Gao, who was imprisoned for subversion, said […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, EastAsiaIntel.com WASHINGTON ― China President Xi Jinping’s meeting with President Obama Friday is sure to be an exercise in double-and-triple talk that will sorely test the skills of both of them in papering over, covering up and otherwise evading issues that neither of them is going to be able […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The United States is ramping up its criticism as China continues its dredging and militarization on several disputed islands in the South China Sea. “The South China Sea, as the name indicated, is a sea area. It belongs to China,” declared Chinese PLAN Vice Adm. Yuan Yubai. “The South China Sea is […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, EastAsiaIntel.com The spectacle of mass migrations is a permanent phenomenon of our times. Images of refugees risking lives to escape oppressive regimes, starvation, war and mayhem are embedded in our subconscious. Think of the thousands who escaped from Vietnam after the defeat of the American-backed Saigon regime, fleeing across […]
Special to WorldTribune.com China is bolstering its anti-submarine warfare capability by building a third airstrip on man-made islands and extending its reach in the South China Sea, according to Chinese and Western experts. A third airstrip in the Spratly archipelago would allow Beijing to extend the reach to more than 1,400 kilometers (870 miles) from […]
Special to WorldTribune.com North Korea’s Atomic Energy Institute (AEI) confirmed on Sept. 15 that Pyongyang has restarted the nuclear reactor that is its main source of weapons-grade plutonium. The confirmation by the AEI came after the leader of Pyongyang’s national space agency hinted at a possible satellite rocket launch next month. Analysts said the two […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Iran wants China’s help to resolve tensions and unrest in the Middle East and is ready to play host to more Chinese firms once sanctions against it are lifted. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif made the comment in Beijing on Sept. 15 at the start […]