Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk The Samsung empire’s de facto leader, Jay Y. Lee, is a free man despite the best efforts of Korean government prosecutors to lock him up while he faces yet another trial to keep him from taking over the group as the only son of Lee Kun-Hee, still hospitalized and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 12, 2020 Democrats, led by Rep. Adam Schiff, and their major media allies continue to warn that Russia will unleash its army of online bots to interfere in the 2020 election. At the same time, Schiff and company gloss over the greater threat — China. Twitter confirmed as much this week. […]
FPI / June 11, 2020 Geostrategy-Direct.com China’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic will propel the communist nation to supplant the United States and take a “leading role in the new world,” Chinese propaganda outlets are saying. Meanwhile, a U.S. official said videos posted online recently showed what appeared to be personnel from the Chinese Embassy […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 11, 2020 In sharp contrast to that of the United States, the Chinese government is continuing to crack down on ethnic and religious minorities, including Falun Gong members, Tibetan Buddhists, Muslims, and underground Protestant and Catholic churches, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on June 10. “In China, state-sponsored repression […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 10, 2020 Harvard University researchers reported that trends in hospital traffic and search engine data in the late summer and early fall of 2019 from the Chinese province of Hubei, in which Wuhan is the capital city, indicate the coronavirus could have been spreading through China as early as August, much […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 9, 2020 The “main problem” the regime of supreme leader Xi Jinping has with Hong Kong are pro-democracy forces opposed to Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rule, a top official confirmed. “I think that Hong Kong’s main problem isn’t an economic problem,” said Zhang Xiaoming, deputy director of the Chinese government’s Hong […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 8, 2020 A mass quarantine, violent riots and mounting evidence that of a deep state plot to disrupt Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and his presidential transition have occupied and threatened America’s collective consciousness. Meanwhile, as “the U.S. protested and bickered, China attempted to strangle what was left of Hong Kong’s enfeebled […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 4, 2020 On the 31st anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, the Chinese Communist Party imposed a new rule in Hong Kong — disrespect of the China national anthem is prohibited. As another in a long line of moves by the Xi Jinping regime to eliminate Hong Kong’s autonomy was imposed, […]
FPI / June 4, 2020 Geostrategy-Direct.com The European Union, under pressure from Germany, has decided not to take any action against China for its imposition of new laws that will essentially end Hong Kong’s autonomy. In stark contrast to measures announced by the U.S. and UK, EU foreign ministers released a statement on May 29 […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler The crisis was brewing for months. Storm clouds were gathering around Hong Kong’s splendid bay as China’s communist authorities have put the vice grip squeeze on democratic Hong Kong’s political rights and social freedoms. The world has watched aimlessly until the United States and a few fellow democracies […]
