Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com President Xi Jinping has made progress in his long-cherished goal of starting political or “reunification” talks with Taiwan, which would eventually lead to some form of political union between the two political entities on either side of the Taiwan Strait. Xi earlier this week met in Beijing with […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Russia has announced its new Arctic military command, to be set up by year’s end. Russia is the world’s largest land country whose military structure is divided into four vast “Joint Strategic Commands” — Joint Strategic Commands West, South, Center and East. The new Arctic command, to be […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Grace Vuoto The moment finally came. My husband and I looked at one another with pride and began that gleeful conversation: Is he ready for preschool? We concluded our first-born and four-year-old son, having enjoyed years of nurturing in the home, is indeed at last ready to begin his formal education […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Gregory R. Copley, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs China — the People’s Republic of China — has been accused, as 2014 and the Year of the Horse dawn, of aggressively stepping out of its geographic constraints and seeking territorial hegemony over areas beyond those associated with Chinese sovereignty, as well as over areas […]
John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — “How can we claim we didn’t know,” governments and media may soon be asking themselves as stunning new evidence of suffering and widespread human rights violations become glaringly obvious in communist North Korea? But now in a devastating and detailed indictment, the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council has stated […]
Seriously, who are the extremists?
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com The North Korean propaganda machine is nothing if not super-skilled at emitting conflicting signals. One day they’re castigating the U.S. and South Korea for military exercises, and the next they’ve dropped the subject and are entertaining a bunch of elderly South Koreans at a reunion with their long-lost […]
Special to WorldTribune.com RAMALLAH — The Palestinian Authority has been urged to privatize the fuel sector in the West Bank. Fuel station owners have urged the regime of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to privatize the Petroleum Authority. The stations owners said the move would end fuel shortages in the West Bank at the end of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com During a lively American-style presidential TV debate, major Afghan candidates for presidency staked out contrasting views on the nation’s future ties to the United States. The immediate issue facing the nation is whether the Afghan government should sign a security agreement with the United States after NATO troops’ […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Grace Vuoto Is the Republican Party coyly planning to stab its supporters in the back? Recently, House Speaker John Boehner declared that immigration reform would be put on the back burner this year because President Barack Obama cannot be trusted to enforce the nation’s laws. Yet, if that is the true […]