Special to WorldTribune, September 27, 2023 Commentary by Laurence F Sanford TikTok talks money. Despite being an insidious influence on American culture and national security, TikTok has support from many monied and influential elite leaders in the U.S. Money talks. Wall Street billionaire Jeff Yass is fighting to stop a ban on Chinese-owned TikTok on […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 26, 2023 An “absolute requirement” in Xi Jinping’s quest for Chinese Communist Party (CCP) world supremacy is the military conquest of Taiwan, an analyst noted. But that strategy extends far beyond planet Earth, he emphasized. “Controlling Taiwan will allow the CCP to dominate the First Island Chain and to better neutralize […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 26, 2023 On Sunday, The Telegraph published an article by science editor Sarah Knapton under the headline “China lab suspected of Covid leak stripped of US funding for violating biosafety rules”. The article’s subtitle states: “Wuhan Institute of Virology broke rules with experiments that increased viral activity more than tenfold, says […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 13, 2023 China is developing its military might at a rapid pace to prepare for war with the United States, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall warned on Monday. “Our job is to deter that war and to be ready to win if it occurs,” Kendall said in an address at the […]
FPI / September 13, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Sept. 6, amid a broadcast North Korean ceremony, dictator Kim Jong-Un presided over the official launch ceremony of his new large conventionally-powered ballistic-missile-armed submarine (SSB), called “841,” and suggested it may be the first of many, posing an increasing regional nuclear and a global proliferation […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 13, 2023 Tokyo is set to unveil new economic security and industrial policy guidelines said to include measures to prevent economic coercion, support for countries that have been subject to such acts, and trade restrictions like increased tariffs on the offenders. The government of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida did not mention […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, September 8, 2023 It’s been two years since the fall of Afghanistan. The tragic collapse of Kabul to the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban signaled the last sordid chapter in the Biden Administration’s appalling and shambolic “withdrawal” from America’s longest military commitment. But beyond the perceived American weakness and strategic […]
FPI / September 6, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Aug. 31 Japan’s Ministry of Defense requested a record budget of $59.9 billion for the fiscal budget year that begins on April 1, 2024. It is part of Prime Minister Kishida Fumio’s five-year $295 billion defense spending plan that will exceed Japan’s 1 percent of […]
Special to WorldTribune, September 5, 2023 Commentary by Laurence F Sanford American universities openly welcome the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). After all, many universities are controlled by Marxist professors who welcome fellow comrades. Also welcome are the millions of dollars the CCP funnels to the universities to gain influence and access to elite American leaders. […]
FPI / August 30, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct Communist Party leader Xi Jinping was so preoccupied with internal conditions back home in China that he skipped out on a major speech last week at the BRICS summit in South Africa, observers surmised. With the faltering economy seen challenging his leader-for-life status, Xi left it to Commerce Minister […]
