‘Very sobering’: Perfect storm threatens global economy, with Asian exceptions

‘Very sobering’: Perfect storm threatens global economy, with Asian exceptions

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, February 5, 2023 The lingering aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, the widening war in Ukraine and the knock-on effects of food and energy shortages, alongside high inflation battered the world economy in 2022. Reflecting these grim realities, the UN has issued its annual World Economic Situation and Prospects […]

Saluting Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai; Jailed and silenced for questioning Xi’s authority

Saluting Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai; Jailed and silenced for questioning Xi’s authority

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk The history of the media is full of stories about journalists who defied authority, risked death covering wars and sought stories behind cover-ups. Few media heroes can match Jimmy Lai, founder of Apple Daily, a Hong Kong paper that was shut down last year after 26 years of defending […]

140,000 bail from Hong Kong as freedom ends under new ‘security’ law

140,000 bail from Hong Kong as freedom ends under new ‘security’ law

by WorldTribune Staff, August 30, 2022 As the communist regime in Beijing tightens its grip on Hong Kong via its new national security law, more than 140,000 residents of the former British colony have applied this year for British visas that open a pathway to UK citizenship. As of the end of June, 140,500 Hong […]

25 years later, Hong Kong has lost its freedom and China is still communist

25 years later, Hong Kong has lost its freedom and China is still communist

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler How time flies. It’s been 25 years since Hong Kong returned to Chinese control, a quarter century since the prosperous British Crown Colony became a semi-autonomous part of the   People’s Republic of China, the world’s largest dictatorship. Nonetheless, the small but feisty islands on the south China coast […]

CCP suffocates one of Hong Kong’s last free press bastions to death

CCP suffocates one of Hong Kong’s last free press bastions to death

by WorldTribune Staff, September 13, 2021 The Chinese Communist Party’s plan to eliminate freedom of the press in Hong Kong is nearing completion with the announcement by Next Digital that it is ceasing operations. With its founder in jail and its stock suspended from trading, Next Digital said in a statement that it had no […]

Freedom of the press dies in Hong Kong: CCP forces closure of Apple Daily

Freedom of the press dies in Hong Kong: CCP forces closure of Apple Daily

by WorldTribune Staff, June 24, 2021 The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has eliminated one of the last vestiges of freedom in Hong Kong with the forced closure of the pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper. Apple Daily — which had been in operation for 26 years — printed its last edition on Thursday. Its digital content was […]

CCP regime orders raid of Hong Kong’s Apple Daily as national security threat

CCP regime orders raid of Hong Kong’s Apple Daily as national security threat

by WorldTribune Staff, June 17, 2021 Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities ordered police in Hong Kong to raid the offices of the pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper on Thursday. Several top editors were arrested and accused of violating Article 29 of the communist nation’s national security law, which bans “collusion with a foreign country or with […]

Masked goons take sledgehammers to newspaper presses in Hong Kong

Masked goons take sledgehammers to newspaper presses in Hong Kong

by WorldTribune Staff, April 13, 2021 The Epoch Times has reported yet another attack on its Hong Kong printing press in what is believed to be the latest attempt by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to silence the news outlet and eliminate freedom of the press. Four masked intruders armed with sledgehammers and a knife […]

China’s ‘Congress’ aims for great high tech leap past U.S.

China’s ‘Congress’ aims for great high tech leap past U.S.

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler Amid the theatrical fanfare and political pomp, China’s annual “National People’s Congress” met in Beijing to dutifully endorse the ruling Communist Party’s (CCP) vision for the future.  Nearly 3,000 delegates surrounded by the red and gold trappings of the People’s Republic and energized by the musical choreography of […]

Election reform, East and West: China confiscates Hong Kong, Democrat bill ‘written in hell’

Election reform, East and West: China confiscates Hong Kong, Democrat bill ‘written in hell’

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, March 14, 2021 The communist government in China has approved a resolution to overhaul Hong Kong’s electoral system. China calls it the “patriots governing Hong Kong” resolution. It passed the National People’s Congress (NPC) on Thursday. One day earlier in Washington, Democrats in the House passed an election reform bill that […]

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