CEO Tim Cook, Tsinghua University and Apple’s ‘symbiotic’ bond with China

CEO Tim Cook, Tsinghua University and Apple’s ‘symbiotic’ bond with China

FPI / November 1, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct Tech behemoth Apple is known for altering its policies to avoid running afoul of censors in communist China. What are the implications? Apple has censored products and apps in Hong Kong and Taiwan that were opposed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Some of Apple’s iCloud data is parked […]

Report: 3,000 percent increase in excess deaths in New Zealand after rollout of Covid shots

Report: 3,000 percent increase in excess deaths in New Zealand after rollout of Covid shots

by WorldTribune Staff, October 27, 2023 The head of a New Zealand political party has cited leaked documents as saying that tens of thousands of the country’s population have died from the Covid injections. Liz Gunn, head of NZ Loyal, is one of few politicians in New Zealand who has spoken out about the number […]

Died suddenly … in the Chinese Communist Party

Died suddenly … in the Chinese Communist Party

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, October 27, 2023 Even before the “Wuhan Virus” made life dangerous everywhere, Communist leader Xi Jinping had been purging leaders who analysts say posed a threat to his power. Some lost power and others disappeared or flat out died for reasons best not disputed. In 2007, Li Keqiang was being touted […]

FBI: ‘Thousands of North Korean IT workers’ freelanced at U.S. firms to fund missile program

FBI: ‘Thousands of North Korean IT workers’ freelanced at U.S. firms to fund missile program

FPI / October 27, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct North Korea’s government deployed an army of IT workers who deceived businesses into hiring them as freelancers and then sent the millions of dollars they earned to North Korea for its ballistic missile program, the FBI and Department of Justice said. The IT workers were sent to live primarily […]

Down and out in Shandong: Tsingtao beer sales plummet after urinating worker video goes viral

Down and out in Shandong: Tsingtao beer sales plummet after urinating worker video goes viral

by WorldTribune Staff, October 25, 2023 “I’ve always said the beer here is like horse pee. Turns out I was wrong,” a Chinese social media user posted after a video of a worker appearing to urinate into a tank at a Tsingtao beer plant in Shandong (no joke) province went viral. So, having Dylan Mulvaney […]

South Korean intel agency warns voting tech vulnerable to hacking by North

South Korean intel agency warns voting tech vulnerable to hacking by North

by WorldTribune Staff, October 11, 2023 South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) has warned that North Korea could penetrate into the voting and ballot counting systems at the state-run election watchdog “at any time.” Hackers who infiltrate the systems would have the ability to manipulate registered voter information and ultimately the outcome of an election, […]

It’s only words? Growing concerns voiced as East Asian security debated at UN

It’s only words? Growing concerns voiced as East Asian security debated at UN

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, October 6, 2023 A wide swath of Asian security issues was discussed and deliberated upon during the recent UN General debate. Predictably, China and Korea dominated concerns though other concerns such as the South China Sea were largely overlooked. Speaking at the start of the 78th Assembly, President […]

Report: Entire family, including 2-year-old, sentenced to life in North Korean prison camp for possessing Bible

Report: Entire family, including 2-year-old, sentenced to life in North Korean prison camp for possessing Bible

by WorldTribune Staff, October 1, 2023 North Korea’s new “Anti-reactionary thought law” states that “being a Christian and/or possessing a Bible is a serious crime and will be severely punished,” an Open Doors 2023 report noted. According to the U.S. State Department, North Korea has imprisoned around 70,000 citizens who are Christians. For decades, North […]

Analyst: Taiwan central to CCP’s celestial, long-term strategy for global hegemony

Analyst: Taiwan central to CCP’s celestial, long-term strategy for global hegemony

by WorldTribune Staff, September 26, 2023 An “absolute requirement” in Xi Jinping’s quest for Chinese Communist Party (CCP) world supremacy is the military conquest of Taiwan, an analyst noted. But that strategy extends far beyond planet Earth, he emphasized. “Controlling Taiwan will allow the CCP to dominate the First Island Chain and to better neutralize […]

Statues honoring communists erected by pro-North Left in South Korea

Statues honoring communists erected by pro-North Left in South Korea

by WorldTribune Staff, September 15, 2023 While in the U.S. communists were toppling statues of American heroes nationwide, South Korea’s pro-North leftists were erecting statues of communists. The City of Gwangju in South Jeolla Province “has been paying tribute to a communist, Zheng Lucheng, who was loyal to the communist parties in both China and […]