Jeffrey T. Kuhner President Obama is on the verge of an historic triumph. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the American Left has been bitter about America’s victory in the Cold War. For decades, they preached moral equivalence between the United States and the Soviet Union. In their view, America was to blame for […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Gregory R. Copley, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs The change in the political balance in the Black Sea region which took place on March 18, 2014, with the re-accession of Crimea into Russia, was not profound in terms of any of the normal arbiters of strategic power. Nonetheless, it changed the equation not […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com The people who write for the Korean Central News Agency in Pyongyang must be having fun. How else can you account for some of the great turns of phrase that show up in the English-language versions of their harangues? It wasn’t enough that the KCNA quoted an otherwise […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com China-Malaysian ties appear to have become an unintended casualty of the tragedy revolving around the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370. Senior Chinese officials have made no secret of their dissatisfaction with the search and rescue operation handled by the Malaysian government. President Xi Jinping and Premier Li […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Olexander Muzychko, the leader of a right-wing nationalist political group in Ukraine, was gunned down on March 24 in the western Ukrainian city of Rivne. Mr. Muzychko was best known in and outside Ukraine as an extreme nationalist with an anti-Russian penchant. Moscow tried to blame him as […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor, Global Information System / Defense & Foreign Affairs Major Western states, with historical dominance over key African regions and markets, have, in the first years of the 21st Century, been losing influence in many areas of Africa. Often the Western states — the U.S., UK, and France in […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — Jordan has made a surprising economic and security rebound amid the Sunni war in neighboring Syria, a report said. The Washington Institute for Near East Policy asserted that Jordan exceeded expectations of the United States and other allies in restoring stability despite the massive flow of refugees from Syria. In […]
John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — In a resounding rebuff to Russia, the UN General Assembly has reaffirmed Ukraine’s territorial integrity and has characterized the recent referendum which incorporated the Crimean peninsula into Russia as “invalid.” While President Vladimir Putin signed a treaty joining Crimea with Russia, the Kiev government has committed itself never to […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com JEJU ISLAND, South Korea – The protest against building a South Korean navy base off the shore of a pleasant village on the southern coast of this “island of peace” by now seems a little tiresome. No way will the hardy band led by priests and pastors stop […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com When the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) announced at a Central Committee plenum last November that it was setting up a Central National Security Commission (CNSC), most analysts compared it to the American National Security Council. Since then, few details have emerged about this secretive superagency, aside from the fact […]