Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, EastAsiaIntel.com Beijing has all but confirmed that President Xi Jinping and Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will have their first-ever tete-a-tete in Beijing on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders’ meeting scheduled for Nov. 10 and 11. When asked about the Xi-Abe meeting, Foreign Minister […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, EastAsiaIntel.com The much-awaited Fourth Plenary Session of the Central Committee closed in Beijing on Oct. 23 with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership vowing to “improve the socialist system of laws with Chinese characteristics.” However, what caught the attention of political observers in Beijing is that General Secretary and […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com President Xi Jinping has tightened ideological control over teachers, writers and intellectuals in the wake of the “Umbrella Revolution” in Hong Kong. The General Office of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Committee issued a circular earlier this week affirming party leadership over the nation’s universities. The circular noted […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The United States plans to sell munitions for Iraq’s main battle tank fleet which sustained heavy losses to the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant this summer.. The State Department has approved an Iraqi request for munitions for the U.S.-origin M1A1 fleet. Under the request, the Iraq Army would receive […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com As soon as large-scale street protests erupted in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) in late September, Beijing has imposed a news blackout on the so-called “Umbrella Revolution” that is still unfolding on the territorial’s busy streets. Mainland-Chinese media has carried no reports on the SAR’s Occupy Central movement […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com The “umbrella revolution” that is sweeping the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) has taken the Hong Kong government and Beijing by surprise. President Xi Jinping, who is noted for his scorched-earth tactics against separatists and dissidents in Tibet and Xinjiang, risks being criticized by heads of rival Communist Party […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com President Xi Jinping has begun plans to streamline the antiquated People’s Liberation Army’s command-and-control systems, which are poorly equipped to handle modern warfare. Xi, who is Chairman of the policy-setting Central Military Commission pointed out at a meeting of senior generals early this week (Sept. 22) that the PLA “must […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com One of the big surprises of the unveiling of the long-awaited iPhone6 is that China — Apple’s biggest market — is not among the eight countries where the smartphone will be first put on sale. While Apple has teamed up with the state-owned giant China Mobile, the release of the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com Having established his status as supremo through purging political foes under the anti-corruption banner, General Secretary and President Xi Jinping has sought to burnish his authoritarian rule by promoting Chinese-style rule by law. A leitmotif of the Fourth Plenary Session of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Committee, which is […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com Having attained notable achievements in the anti-corruption crusade, President and Party General Secretary Xi Jinping is turning his attention to grooming future leaders. Dozens of Sixth-Generation officials, or those born in the 1960s, will be inducted into the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee and Politburo at the 19th Party Congress […]