Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler When the Taliban forces overran Afghanistan a few months ago, not only did they capture a country continuously in conflict since the initial Soviet invasion in 1979, but they equally seized huge stockpiles of American supplied weapons provided to the defeated Afghan military. The unexplained and reckless U.S. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John McNabb The Afghanistan nightmare has just begun. Americans I know, love and respect have one question: How could this be happening in late August 2021? I have some insights based on personal experiences after my combat flying tours during the Vietnam War. But first we must look to the desk […]
FPI / July 21, 2021 Geostrategy-Direct.com By Richard Fisher On July 5 Japanese Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso suggested that Japan might have to use military force to defend Taiwan. He said, “If a major problem took place in Taiwan, it would not be too much to say that it could relate to a survival-threatening […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 27, 2021 In a new Rasmussen Reports poll, 56 percent of likely voters said it is not fair to make women compete against transgender athletes at the Olympic Games. The poll found that just 25 percent think it is fair and 19 percent are not sure. The issue was prominent in […]
Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, June 11, 2021 Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga this week highlighted Australia, New Zealand, and Taiwan as countries which handled the Covid crisis well. China went into meltdown mode over this alleged affront to its sacrosanct sovereignty. Why? Because the Chinese Communist Party that thinks it owns China claimed Suga had […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 4, 2021 China’s Coast Guard, which is now under the direct command of the PLAN (People’s Liberation Army Navy), sent four ships into Japan’s contiguous zones off the Senkaku Islands on Thursday, the Japanese Coast Guard reported. It marked the 112th consecutive day communist China sent its vessels near the islands […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 21, 2021 Following Japan’s surrender in World War II and its occupation, headed by the “blue-eyed shogun: Gen. Douglas MacArthur, it adopted a “Peace Constitution” and has strictly limited defense spending since to less than 1 percent of its GDP. That’s about to change. Citing China’s increased capabilities in new areas […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 23, 2021 Officials with the Tokyo Olympic Games announced on Thursday that they will not allow athletes to kneel or protest during the Games which are set to begin on July 23. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said it polled more than 3,500 elite athletes and Olympians ranging in age from […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 20, 2021 Following the Friday meeting in Washington between Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, Taiwan was named in a leader’s summit statement for the first time in more than five decades. The statement also highlighted U.S. and Japanese concerns over Hong Kong and human rights issues in Xinjiang. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 7, 2021 Human rights activists in Japan are calling on the Biden administration to join them in boycotting the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. The activists, campaigning to stop China’s atrocities in Tibet and against the more than 1 million Uighurs being held in concentration camps, said countries which allow their […]