Sol W. Sanders Creeping up on the outer edges of Wall Street soothsayers’ economic crystal ball, until now dominated by American and Euro crises, is growing concern about China. The inane idea China [and India, which is also in trouble] would somehow rescue the world economy is now, finally, dismissed by the pundits — without […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Lee Jong-Heon, East-Asia-Intel.com North Korea, which has never tolerated any unauthorized spread of information, has been tapping such popular social networking services as Facebook and Twitter to wage a new type of propaganda offensive. The secretive country’s main government-run Web site recently added icons for Internet users to post contents on […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com The Chinese Communist Party leadership has toned down its aggressive rhetoric regarding the South China Sea in an apparent effort to blunt the growth of Washington’s “anti-China containment policy.” During his recent tour of Hawaii, Australia and Indonesia, President Barack Obama gave indirect support to the claims of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com WASHINGTON — Call it a matter of conflicting — or colliding — messages. South Korean conservatives have forced a free-trade agreement with the United States through a fractious National Assembly. A U.S. Congress “supercommittee” has demonstrated the weakness of the American system of governance by abject, humiliating failure […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Lee Jong-Heon, East-Asia-Intel.com North Korea is continuing to funnel its scarce resources to elite residents in Pyongyang in order to ensure their unwavering loyalty to the dynastic regime. The effort is likely to worsen the country’s notorious discrimination policy and expose a society rampant with inequality. The destitute country opened a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com The Hu Jintao leadership is mapping out measures to blunt what Beijing perceives is an enhanced effort by Washington to counter China’s power projection in the Asia-Pacific Theatre. While visiting Australia on Nov. 16, President Barack Obama and host Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced that U.S. Marines would […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com WASHINGTON — The FTA (free-trade agreement) with the United States is an obscenity in the eyes of leftists in South Korea who believe their conservative government is foisting it on them. Hostility toward the KORUS FTA, as it is known, is such that the political and ideological foes […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Based on an article by Cliff Kincaid for Accuracy in Media President Obama is being portrayed by the always supportive U.S. media as almost a “peace through strength” Ronald Reagan Republican as he travels abroad. “With the Obama administration’s high-profile pivot toward Asia this week — pushing for a new free-trade agreement […]
Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — More details on North Korea’s presence in Iran’s missile and nuclear program have come to light, according to news reports from Seoul, South Korea. A diplomatic source said Pyongyang has deployed hundreds of specialists in nuclear weapons and missile facilities in Iran. The source, believed to be an intelligence official, […]
Compiled by Bill Gertz, Geostrategy-Direct.com Russia and China pose the greatest threat of espionage and industrial spying and are expected to continue to be the most aggressive at stealing secrets, according to the annual report of the U.S. government’s Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive, known as NCIX. The U.S. intelligence community anticipates that China […]