North Korea is now in a league of its own for missile proliferation

North Korea is now in a league of its own for missile proliferation

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, December 24, 2023 There they go again! North Korea’s reclusive communist regime ended the year with a provocative intercontinental ballistic launch, flying near Japan and splashing down in the Pacific. The ominous firing of a powerful Hwasong-18 rocket came a month after Pyongyang put a spy satellite into […]

‘Reckless experiment’: Explosive, newly-released documents reveal U.S.-Wuhan role in Covid origins

‘Reckless experiment’: Explosive, newly-released documents reveal U.S.-Wuhan role in Covid origins

by WorldTribune Staff, December 21, 2023 In December 2018, U.S.-based EcoHealth Alliance laid out a proposal to “engineer spike proteins” to infect human cells that would then be “inserted into SARS-Covid backbones” at China’s Wuahn Institute of Virology, according to documents obtained via the Freedom of Information Act by the nonprofit public health research group […]

GREATEST HITS, 17: Japan researchers: All Covid variants were created in lab

GREATEST HITS, 17: Japan researchers: All Covid variants were created in lab

CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE: Top stories of 2023, December 18, 2023 Thank you for your support for WorldTribune, Window on the Real World. Have a great 2024! — The Editors by WorldTribune Staff, October 9, 2023 Japanese researchers have found that all variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid, were in fact made […]

Cold War theater: China sought to engineer at-sea Taiwan helicopter defection

Cold War theater: China sought to engineer at-sea Taiwan helicopter defection

FPI / December 17, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher During the Cold War, high profile defections from the Soviet bloc to the West were a constant source of assurance of the desirability, if not the superiority of the democracies over the empire of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. For example, such assurance was […]

Voters shun polls in Hong Kong: From 71 percent turnout in 2019 to 27 percent

Voters shun polls in Hong Kong: From 71 percent turnout in 2019 to 27 percent

by WorldTribune Staff, December 11, 2023 You are to have no other gods as a substitute for me. — Exodus 20:3 China, which decided in June 2020 that it owned Hong Kong, is enforcing its own atheistic version of the Ten Commandments. This flies in the face of a city which has long valued economic […]

Italy’s conservative PM pulls plug on China’s BRI ahead of EU summit

Italy’s conservative PM pulls plug on China’s BRI ahead of EU summit

by WorldTribune Staff, December 7, 2023 Pointing to a major trade imbalance, Italy indicated on Dec. 6 that it would withdraw from communist China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The move came one day ahead of the China-EU summit in Beijing. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, a conservative, had said Italy, the only member of […]

R.I.P. Dr. Henry Kissinger: Now it is time to terminate his dysfunctional China policies

R.I.P. Dr. Henry Kissinger: Now it is time to terminate his dysfunctional China policies

FPI / December 6, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher At age 100 on Nov. 29, former United States Secretary of State Dr. Henry Kissinger passed away. While the nation has for decades and will continue to mark his accomplishments and controversy, it is also time to mark the passing of his dysfunctional and self-defeating policies […]

Who knew China was antisemitic? Karl Marx, that’s who

Who knew China was antisemitic? Karl Marx, that’s who

by WorldTribune Staff, November 30, 2023 While Western governments have condemned the Hamas attack, the Xi Jinping regime in Beijing has not. The communist regime has also censored pro-Israel expression, both online and offline. What’s going on here in China, a nation and business destination loved by the late Henry Kissinger and the millions in […]

Multiple federal agencies failed taxpayers in China-linked California bio lab scandal

Multiple federal agencies failed taxpayers in China-linked California bio lab scandal

Special to WorldTribune, November 27, 2023 Commentary by Laurence F Sanford In December 2022, an illegal Chinese-owned bio lab in Reedley, California, was discovered when city code enforcement officer Jesalyn Harper noted a garden hose protruding from a supposedly unoccupied warehouse. When Ms. Harper first inspected the building, she found numerous building code violations and […]

Argentines chose freedom over more of the same old political tango

Argentines chose freedom over more of the same old political tango

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, November 23, 2023 Facing a tight and tense Presidential election showdown, Argentines chose Freedom. In a stunning upset, the South American country elected an upstart libertarian candidate Javier Milea, an economist who promised to cut spending, reduce bloated budgets, and use economic shock therapy to save the resource […]