by WorldTribune Staff, September 25, 2020 A South Korean fisheries official who was reportedly attempting to defect to North Korea was shot and killed and his body burned at sea by North Korean soldiers, reports say. As part of its coronavirus lockdown, North Korea currently has “shoot to kill” orders in place in cases of […]
FPI / September 24, 2020 Geostrategy-Direct.com By Richard Fisher As the global death toll from the Chinese Wuhan coronavirus approaches one million people, China wants the world to also know that it is ready to start a war against the 23 million free people of Taiwan. On Sept. 9 and 10, China’s People’s Liberation Army […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 23, 2020 Hundreds of thousands of people in Tibet are being forced by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) into military-style training centers which analysts say are akin to forced labor camps, a study has said. The report by the Jamestown Foundation’s is based on state media reports, policy documents and satellite […]
FPI / September 16, 2020 Geostrategy-Direct.com China reportedly began producing a vaccine for coronavirus just over a month after Beijing first announced the existence of the virus that causes COVID-19. Maj. Gen. Chen Wei, in charge of the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA’s) biological warfare defenses, said in a video that went viral in China earlier […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 11, 2020 The American public is largely unaware of the deteriorating freedoms in heretofore staunch U.S. ally South Korea. Only WorldTribune.com has been chronicling this story. Now the Wall Street Journal is also paying attention. In one recent major development, Kim Yo-Jong, the powerful sister of dictator Kim Jong-Un, on June […]
FPI / September 10, 2020 Geostrategy-Direct.com Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga is expected to succeed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has nurtured security alliances in Asia to counter China while boosting Japan’s military under the post World War II pacifist constitution. Abe announced late last month that he is resigning due to health problems. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 8, 2020 North Koreans are not allowed to have friendships or express love. Everyone is only a “comrade.” Citizens are required to reserve their devotion for the country’s supreme leaders who are venerated not as authority figures but as gods. “What you need to know about North Korea is that it’s […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 7, 2020 Chinese supreme leader Xi Jinping is seeking to destroy Tibet’s unique national identity by demanding Buddhists comply with the Chinese Communist Party’s political mandates, the leaders of Tibet’s India-based government in exile said. “Tibetan Buddhism should be guided in adapting to [China’s] socialist society and should be developed in […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 31, 2020 (Remarks by David R. Stilwell, State Department’s Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, to the Heritage Foundation on Aug. 31.) I am very pleased to have the opportunity to talk about Taiwan, one of America’s most reliable partners in the Indo-Pacific, and indeed the world. It […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 30, 2020 Communist China, which has a long track record of violating laws of the sea, now has a seat on a tribunal which settles international disputes on the sea. Duan Jielong was selected by the United Nations to serve a nine-year term as a judge to the International Tribunal for […]