Special to WorldTribune.com Almost all decisive strategic victories — winning the peace, not just the battle — derive from the adoption of game-changing capabilities, as well as strategic depth. Competing through linear development of old approaches is expensive and dangerous, especially when budgets are tight. Gregory R. Copley, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs Chill winds are […]
By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com The United Nations as a force for peace has never lived up to the hopes implicit in the name. You can’t blame a succession of secretary-generals for the failures of the UN The current secretary-general, Ban Ki-Moon, may seem bland and ineffective, but there’s not much he can do when each […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com Even as Xi Jinping is extending the parameters of his anti-corruption drive, the official media is building up a personality cult around the President that is unprecedented since the demise of Mao Zedong in 1976. Since early July, the official media such as Xinhua News Agency and the People’s Daily […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com On July 1, the 93rd anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, the Central Committee of the CCP made a shocking announcement: Gen. Xu Caihou has been expelled from the Party and referred to a military tribunal for trial on various unspecified “economic” crimes. The news is a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com President Xi Jinping is emerging as China’s undisputed strongman even as whatever little that has remained of the institutional reforms championed by late leader Deng Xiaoping has become increasingly attenuated. Having been a principal victim of the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) spearheaded by dictator Mao Zedong, Deng quickly put […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com There’s no mystery as to why the owners of North Korea are calling the Korean War armistice “null and void.” They want to replace it with a peace treaty with the U.S. — a deal that would freeze out South Korea, which they consider a U.S. client, a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com Even history buffs in China have only a hazy recollection of one of the most sensational spy and defection cases in Communist Chinese history. In 1985, Yu Qiangsheng, a senior cadre in Beijing’s Ministry of State Security, defected to the United States. The information he provided led to […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Brian M Downing, FreePressers.com The dispute between China and Japan over the Senkakus group of uninhabited islands and barren rocks jutting up from the East China Sea has intensified in recent days. China has sent armed vessels to the island and anti-Japanese demonstrations have broken out in Chinese cities. Japan has […]