Synergy, strength, dynamism; U.S.-South Korea alliance at 70

Synergy, strength, dynamism; U.S.-South Korea alliance at 70

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, April 28, 2023 Seventy years is a long time, especially for a military alliance even between friends.  There are few in the world, notably including the Atlantic Alliance, forming NATO in 1949. But in the case of East Asia, the strategic and economic links which emerged from the […]

In China, Brazil’s leftist Lula gleefully throws BRIC at the U.S. Dollar

In China, Brazil’s leftist Lula gleefully throws BRIC at the U.S. Dollar

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, April 21, 2023 The writing was on the wall. But when Brazil’s leftwing president Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva visited China recently, he flamboyantly underscored economic and security ties between Latin America’s largest democracy and the world’s largest dictatorship. Significantly, he took steps to decouple much of Brazil’s vibrant […]

In bad week for Beijing, Taiwan wins three major statements of support

In bad week for Beijing, Taiwan wins three major statements of support

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, April 12, 2023 Taiwan’s vibrant but threatened democracy had a good week. After months of facing ominous political threats from the Chinese communists which may eventually culminate in Beijing’s invasion of the self-governing island, Taiwan seemed sure footed diplomatically with a little help from its friends. Taiwan’s President […]

The news of the world is as wild as it gets

The news of the world is as wild as it gets

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, March 22, 2023 As they say, you can’t make this up. In the course of just over a week, China and Russia reaffirmed their friendship and military ties, the Iranian regime proxies lashed out with rockets at U.S. forces in neighboring Syria, North Korea shot off a few […]

Ukraine grain shipments, a critical global lifeline, continue to flow despite war

Ukraine grain shipments, a critical global lifeline, continue to flow despite war

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, March 22, 2023 Despite a widening war with Russia, shipments of Ukrainian food and grain are still being shipped to global markets under a complex but fragile accord brokered by the United Nations and nearby Turkey. Since the deal was initiated last Summer, The Black Sea Grain Initiative […]

Party time in Beijing: Xi Jinping coronates self, thumbs nose at U.S. with Saudi-Iran deal

Party time in Beijing: Xi Jinping coronates self, thumbs nose at U.S. with Saudi-Iran deal

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, March 13, 2023 The theatrical pomp and circumstance of China’s National People’s Congress presents an annual political ritual on the verge of Spring. Nearly 3,000 delegates assembled in Beijing to participate in the week long sessions and delivered-on-demand results for the ruling Communist Party leadership; formalizing the unprecedented […]

On eve of coronation, Britain shadowed by economic and political woes

On eve of coronation, Britain shadowed by economic and political woes

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, March 7, 2023 LONDON — In the anxious countdown to the Coronation of King Charles III, the United Kingdom is shadowed by a raft of economic and political woes ranging from the soaring cost of living to an uneasy nervousness of what’s next in the Ukraine war.  Though […]

Despite the U.S.-backed UN rebuke of Russia, 38 nations hold out including China with its ‘peace plan’

Despite the U.S.-backed UN rebuke of Russia, 38 nations hold out including China with its ‘peace plan’

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler Now a year after Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the UN General Assembly firmly and sternly rebuked Russia’s brutal war against a sovereign country. With a thumping majority of 141 in favor, only 7 against and 32 abstentions, the Assembly again issued a non-binding resolution demanding Russia’s military […]

Beijing-backed Burma military junta has devastated the nation, but still stands

Beijing-backed Burma military junta has devastated the nation, but still stands

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler The military junta which seized power in Burma, aka Myanmar, two years ago remains in power but is increasingly challenged by both its own citizens and targeted economic sanctions.  Now a wave of international political pressures is steadily growing to force the junta from power and presumably create […]

Chinese ‘trial balloon’ probed much more than U.S. airspace

Chinese ‘trial balloon’ probed much more than U.S. airspace

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler It’s a bird. It’s a plane! No, it’s a Chinese “weather balloon” probing American airspace! The fascinating but bizarre Chinese “weather balloon” incident has raised disturbing and very unsettling questions about Beijing’s high-altitude breach of American airspace and indeed sovereignty.  More troubling, the incident was not just a […]

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