Sol W. Sanders The new year’s worldwide economic downturn has an interlocking effect: every national economy is searching to accommodate itself politically as well as economically to what looks to be an extended period of low growth. After longer or shorter periods of historically unrivaled prosperity, they are feeling for a “bottom” — a level […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Geostrategy-Direct.com Chinese military groups and universities have been linked to pervasive Chinese cyber espionage and technology acquisition efforts, according to U.S. intelligence officials. The Obama administration is preparing to confront China more directly on the cyber attacks, the Wall Street Journal reported Dec. 13. Two weeks ago, U.S. officials warned their counterparts […]
Lev Navrozov I call countries that are not free “slave countries,” though Soviet propaganda proclaimed that “Soviet Russia” was the only first “free” country in the world even after it conquered some countries to the west of it, after which those countries became “free” countries in the Soviet propaganda, in contrast to “the rest of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Lee Jong-Heon, East-Asia-Intel.com North Korea has quickly moved to cement its new leader’s position amid skepticism that an untested, inexperienced son in his late 20s could take the helm, beating out older and powerful military generals who presumably want to share power. Kim Jong-Un, the third son of Kim Jong-Il who […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Brian M. Downing, FreePressers.com One can scarcely read anything on world affairs these days without seeing discussion of the decline of the U.S. and the rise of China. In recent weeks, however, President Obama spoke plainly, bluntly, and even disparagingly to China. At the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, Obama chided China, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com SEOUL — North Korea is playing a skillful game of funeral diplomacy and politics that’s dividing South Koreans and leaving everyone to wonder who’s doing what to whom in the corridors of power in Pyongyang. All North Korean strategists have had to do is issue a huge welcome […]
Sol W. Sanders A new era of increasing instability is opening in East Asia. The death of North Korean leader Kim Il-Jong is only adding another, if explosive, element to an already volatile equation: China enters a period of substantially slower economic growth, if not a crash, on the eve next autumn of a takeover […]
Special to WorldTribune.com ANKARA — Turkey intends to expand the presence of a controversial telecommunications company suspected of quietly serving the military of China and Iran. Turkey has approved a proposal for China’s Huawei to expand its presence and investment. Huawei said it would bolster its research and development center in Istanbul with a $15 […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Lee Jong-Heon, East-Asia-Intel.com North Korea’s military discipline has been significantly eroding and soldier loyalty to the regime weakening largely due to protracted economic troubles, according to South Korean think thanks, citing confidential military documents from the North. The declining military discipline had prompted the late ruler Kim Jong-Il to regularly issue […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com SEOUL — The death of bouffant-coiffed, platform-heel wearing North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il on Saturday ushers in a new era of rampant speculation, pontification and no doubt obfuscation about what’s really going on inside the Hermit Kingdom. The fact is that Kim Jong-Il late last week appeared just […]