FPI / September 13, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Sept. 6, amid a broadcast North Korean ceremony, dictator Kim Jong-Un presided over the official launch ceremony of his new large conventionally-powered ballistic-missile-armed submarine (SSB), called “841,” and suggested it may be the first of many, posing an increasing regional nuclear and a global proliferation […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 13, 2023 Tokyo is set to unveil new economic security and industrial policy guidelines said to include measures to prevent economic coercion, support for countries that have been subject to such acts, and trade restrictions like increased tariffs on the offenders. The government of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida did not mention […]
FPI / September 6, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Aug. 31 Japan’s Ministry of Defense requested a record budget of $59.9 billion for the fiscal budget year that begins on April 1, 2024. It is part of Prime Minister Kishida Fumio’s five-year $295 billion defense spending plan that will exceed Japan’s 1 percent of […]
FPI / August 30, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct Communist Party leader Xi Jinping was so preoccupied with internal conditions back home in China that he skipped out on a major speech last week at the BRICS summit in South Africa, observers surmised. With the faltering economy seen challenging his leader-for-life status, Xi left it to Commerce Minister […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 20, 2023 An unprecedented trilateral summit at Camp David between South Korea, Japan, and the United States countered the successful divide-and-conquer tactics used by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to expand its military’s regional power in what CCP leaders call the post-U.S. era. A concluding joint statement laying the groundwork for […]
FPI / August 16, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Aug. 12 and 13 Taiwan’s Vice President Lai Ching-te (William) visited New York City, departing for Paraguay on the evening of the 13th, and guess what, the world did not end. Vice President William Lai is also the nominee of Taiwan’s governing Democratic Progressive Party […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 11, 2023 Companies based in communist China account for 40 percent of the materials used in batteries for Tesla’s electric vehicles, a report said. An analysis by Nikkei Asia of the Elon Musk-owned company’s battery supply chain found that China was the largest supplier of materials for the lithium-ion batteries used […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 8, 2023 Pfizer officials admitted during an Australian Senate hearing that its employees Down Under were given a “special batch” of the Covid vaccine which was different than the jab given to the general population. Under questioning by Sen. Malcolm Roberts, a Pfizer spokesperson revealed that the Big Pharma giant imported […]
FPI / August 2, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher In 1950 it was former Soviet leader Josef Stalin who engineered the first “Axis of Evil,” when in January that year he approved of North Korean Workers Party leader Kim Il-Sung’s plan to invade South Korea. This fateful action then convinced newly victorious Chinese Communist Party […]
FPI / July 26, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher A week of nuclear threat diplomacy in Asia underscores the essential importance of nuclear weapons to sustaining stability in that region, but also underscores that the United States requires a far larger regional nuclear arsenal to fulfill its extended deterrence commitments. On July 13 North Korea […]
