Impeachment? Huge news day at White House with China, top CEOs

Impeachment? Huge news day at White House with China, top CEOs

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, January 16, 2020 What was the real “historic” moment in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday? Was it when partisan impeachment articles were delivered to the Senate in what conservative observers termed a bizarre ritual? Or, might it have been when President Donald Trump and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He signed phase one […]

Taiwan’s president infuriates China: Time to accept we are ‘an independent country already’

Taiwan’s president infuriates China: Time to accept we are ‘an independent country already’

by WorldTribune Staff, January 16, 2020 China needs to respect the reality that Taiwan is an independent nation, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen said on Wednesday. “We don’t have a need to declare ourselves an independent state,” Tsai told the BBC. “We are an independent country already and we call ourselves the Republic of China, Taiwan.” […]

Sleepless in Pyongyang: Three reasons for Kim’s anxiety

Sleepless in Pyongyang: Three reasons for Kim’s anxiety

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk The killing of Qasem Soleimani by an American drone aircraft on orders from U.S. President Donald Trump as the Iranian general arrived in Baghdad to spur on Iran-backed Iraqi militia against the U.S. confronts Kim Jong-Un with serious problems. The first is that North Korea cannot publicize the episode […]

Decapitation? Assassination? Over in Pyongyang, Kim Jong-Un isn’t hung up on semantics

Decapitation? Assassination? Over in Pyongyang, Kim Jong-Un isn’t hung up on semantics

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk People who split hairs over semantics ask if decapitation is the same as assassination. The debate assumes relevance in the wake of the killing of the Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. No, he wasn’t exactly decapitated, meaning his head wasn’t literally cut off from the rest of his body though […]

Reports: Many Australia bushfires were deliberately set

Reports: Many Australia bushfires were deliberately set

by WorldTribune Staff, January 10, 2020 Arson and general carelessness are responsible for most of the bushfires that are devastating Australia, reports say. New South Wales police released a statement saying that, since Nov. 8, 2019, 183 people, including 40 juveniles, have been charged with 205 bushfire-related offenses. Of the 183 charged, 24 were cited […]

‘President is a spy’: Revolt in South Korea widens as government consolidates power

‘President is a spy’: Revolt in South Korea widens as government consolidates power

by WorldTribune Staff, January 8, 2020 As critics continue to protest what they say is a threat to the rule of law and national sovereignty by the leftist South Korean government, citizens have even resorted to calling an emergency espionage hotline to report President Moon Jae-In as a spy, a report said. The man “was […]

Norwegian library won’t bow to China, refuses to remove book on Falun Gong

Norwegian library won’t bow to China, refuses to remove book on Falun Gong

by WorldTribune Staff, January 7, 2020 Citing the country’s free speech rights, a library in Norway is refusing to give in to communist China’s demands to remove a book that is censored in China, a report said. The coaches and managers of a Chinese Olympics ski team that was training in Norway requested that the […]

Kim Jong-Un lies low after Soleimani hit

Kim Jong-Un lies low after Soleimani hit

by WorldTribune Staff, January 6, 2020 In the wake of the U.S. killing of Iranian terrorist chief Qasem Soleimani, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un may take a page from his father’s playbook and disappear from the public eye out of fear of a possible assassination attempt, analysts say. Kim has not been seen in public […]

YouTube revolution: Koreans who remember the war tune out mainstream media

YouTube revolution: Koreans who remember the war tune out mainstream media

by WorldTribune Staff, January 1, 2020 Distrust in the mainstream media is not limited to the U.S. but is said to be more intense in South Korea which lacks conservative alternative media and is facing what earlier would have seemed impossible: the threat of a left-wing dictatorship. For many, YouTube is the only platform for […]

Anger in Japan as China’s increased incursions precede Xi’s state visit to Tokyo

Anger in Japan as China’s increased incursions precede Xi’s state visit to Tokyo

by WorldTribune Staff, December 27, 2019 China’s practice of sending its vessels near the Japan-controlled Senkaku islands continued in the days prior to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to China this week and could raise tensions ahead of Chinese supreme leader Xi Jinping’s state visit to Japan next year, analysts say. Japan’s Coast Guard […]

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