Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — The setting was all about renewing an old friendship between a political pariah and the People’s Republic of China, its longtime patron. So in his first state visit outside of the African continent, Zimbabwe’s new president Emmerson Mnangagwa visited China to reaffirm and re-enforce the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 3, 2018 North Korea’s foreign minister met with his Chinese counterpart in Beijing on April 3 and plans to travel to Russia later this week, news reports from Seoul said. News of the proposed talks as early as next month between Kim Jong-Un and Donald Trump came as a shock in […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 30, 2018 China will end economic retaliation against South Korea over Seoul’s deployment of the U.S.-made THAAD missile defense system, a top Chinese official said on March 30. Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi gave the assurance on THAAD during his meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-In in Seoul, Yonhap reported. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 18, 2018 President Donald Trump on March 16 signed legislation which calls for the U.S. government to support expanded official visits to and from Taiwan “at all levels.” China voiced its displeasure with Trump’s signing of the Taiwan Travel Act, saying that it “severely violates the one-China principle, the political foundation […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Geostrategy-Direct Chinese President Xi Jinping appears not only to have underestimated U.S. President Donald Trump, but also to have exposed Beijing’s weaknesses for the world to see. Trump’s ordered missile strikes on a Syrian airbase on April 6 occurred while conducting a critical summit meeting with Xi at the U.S. president’s […]
Special to WorldTribune.com North Korea will figure prominently in President Donald Trump’s summit in South Florida this week with China’s Xi Jinping. By Geostrategy-Direct China is once again abrogating its promises and obligation to implement international sanction regimes against Pyongyang. Beijing has continued its illicit trade with North Korea, allowing the Kim regime to obtain […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Geostrategy-Direct Two Chinese bodyguards appointed by Beijing to protect the half-brother of North Korea’s dictator were mysteriously absent at the moment when he was accosted by two female agents in Kuala Lumpur on the day before Valentine’s Day. Kim Jong-Nam was the oldest known son of the late dictator Kim Jong-Il […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Geostrategy-Direct China’s Supreme Leader Xi Jinping has ordered a drastic reduction in the speed and volume of buying influence in foreign countries due to China’s economic slowdown and the meager payback from many recipient nations. China has the world’s largest hard currency reserve, currently at a staggering amount of $3 trillion, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, ‘Inside China’, Geostrategy-Direct.com “As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don’t […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, ‘Inside China’, Geostrategy-Direct.com Propaganda specialists surrounding President Xi Jinping are working overtime to burnish his reputation as a close-to-the-people savior who can best acquit himself of Chairman Mao’s “serve the people” credo. Xinhua News Agency over the weekend released a long dispatch on “the basic reform orientations” of Xi […]
