Special to WorldTribune.com Geostrategy-Direct.com ABU DHABI — China and the Gulf Cooperation Council have pledged to form a strategic alliance. Officials said Beijing planned to significantly increase investment in the six-member GCC. They said China was replacing the United States as the leading economic partner of the Middle East. “It is also a major event […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com Vicious competition between Asia’s two most powerful countries has spread to Africa, where China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe are trying to woo the continent of 54 nations. On Jan. 6, Wang began a tour of Ethiopia, Djibouti, Ghana and Senegal. Meanwhile, Abe […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is said to have abandoned an attempt to block Hamas and Islamic Jihad finances for a family trip to China. An affidavit filed in a U.S. federal district court alleged that Netanyahu withdrew Israel’s support for a suit against a financier to Palestinian insurgency groups […]