by WorldTribune Staff, August 16, 2018 The U.S. Treasury Department on Aug. 15 announced new sanctions on a Russian port service agency which aided North Korean ships and a Chinese firm and its Singapore affiliate which sold alcohol and tobacco products to Pyongyang in breach of current U.S. sanctions. Russian-based Profinet Pte Ltd and its […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 17, 2018 China is rapidly pursuing supreme leader Xi Jinping’s plan of having a modernized military that can “fight and win” wars, the Pentagon said. The People’s Liberation Army (PLA), which has the largest ground force in the world, is also training its pilots for strikes against U.S. and allied targets […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 15, 2018 Beijing has denied a UN official’s claim that more than 1 million Muslim Uighurs are being held in what is in effect a massive internment camp in communist China. Gay McDougall, a member of of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, said that China’s Xinjiang region […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 15, 2018 The sale of a Mexican radio station, which broadcasts into the United States, to a Hong Kong firm with ties the Chinese military and intelligence has raised alarm bells in Washington, a report said. According to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), XEWW AM 690, a 77,500-watt station capable of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 13, 2018 China’s ongoing efforts to erase references to Taiwan as an independent nation will not succeed, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen said in Los Angeles on Aug. 12. Beijing has formally protested her U.S. stopovers on a trip to Latin America. “In going abroad, the whole world can see Taiwan; they […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 13, 2018 The revelation that a Chinese spy had been Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s personal driver for 20 years garnered scant attention from the same major media players who can’t get enough of the suspected Russian spying on the Trump campaign, a columnist noted. “The mainstream media desperately want to deflect attention away from […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 12, 2018 The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) released a new propaganda video this month which shows off China’s latest weaponry and includes some provocative rhetoric. At one point in the 2:20-minute video titled “I am a Chinese Soldier”, the narrator says “peace behind me, war in front of me.” The PLA’s […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler PARIS — The very name Cambodia evokes tragic memories and historical passions. This small Southeast Asian land which was ravaged by the communist Khmer Rouge genocide a generation ago, then occupied by neighboring Vietnam, and later, resuscitated back to life by a long forgotten United Nations peacekeeping and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 8, 2018 Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s cozy relationship with communist China goes back 40 years. For at least 20 of those years, a Chinese spy was working on the California Democrat’s staff. “It took a tweet from President Trump implying hypocrisy, given Feinstein’s role investigating ‘Russian collusion’ as a member of the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 6, 2018 China has banned the release of “Christopher Robin”, a new live-action Disney movie which features Winnie the Pooh and his cast of friends. Chinese supreme leader Xi Jinping is said to be furious over memes that compare him to the portly honey-loving bear and censors have cracked down on […]
