Special to WorldTribune.com JERUSALEM — China and Israel have moved toward renewing strategic relations, a report said. The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs asserted that China and Israel completed a series of exchanges that promoted defense and economic cooperation. In a report, the center said Beijing was seeking to maintain its interests in the Middle […]
Special to WorldTribune.com East-Asia-Intel Trade between North Korea and China jumped more than 62 percent in 2011 over the previous year, reflecting the North’s deepening reliance on its neighbor for economic survival, Seoul’s state trade agency said. According to figures compiled by the Korea International Trade Association (KITA), the value of bilateral trade reached $5.63 […]
By Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon Obama administration rebuffed a senior Chinese police official in southern China who sought to defect, turning him away after his presence became known to Chinese security forces. [ See also: Prominent Chinese mayor on forced vacation after visiting U.S. consulate ] An administration official familiar with China affairs said […]
Special to WorldTribune.com ABU DHABI — China and the United Arab Emirates have signed a series of energy accords. The two Asian states signed energy cooperation agreements on Jan. 17 during the visit by Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao. Under the agreements, the UAE’s state-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. and the China National Petroleum […]
Protesting villagers in southern China said they will march on government offices this week unless the body of a local leader is released and four villagers in police custody are freed. The 13,000 residents of Wukan, in the wealthy province of Guangdong, are in open revolt against officialdom and have driven out local Communist Party […]
Lev Navrozov As I began writing this column, in the morning of November 6, I happened to view the television interview with Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education, who appeared on Fareed Zakaria GPS program “Fixing America’s Education Crisis.” Mr.Duncan admitted that America is failing and losing its world dominance in education. International testing has […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The Congressional Research Service reported that Egypt topped such major regional states as Israel and Algeria in arms procurement over the last four years. In a report by Richard Grimmett, CRS said Egypt has been acquiring weapons from the United States as well as such rivals as China and Russia. […]
Lev Navrozov For years, I have been warning my readers that it is not accidental that the special “general election” of the head of government and head of state does not exist in the “old” and historically wise Britain, but it does exist in the “young” United States. That reminds me of a Soviet song […]
Sol W. Sanders In the spring of 1947, I was on deck as one of that dying breed of transatlantic liners was tugged into Le Havre. Despite decades of experience there was incredible confusion as French stevedores hassled over tying up ropes. A rail companion, a French Jewish refugee returning from American wartime refuge, declaimed, […]
Lev Navrozov In 1949, Mao named his country the “People’s Republic of China.” Historically, China had practically no foreign visitors, just as practically no Chinese had visited the outside world. While Lenin and many other future “Soviet leaders” had been living a great deal in free Western countries, Mao was a pure product of China, […]