by WorldTribune Staff, August 30, 2018 President Donald Trump on Aug. 29 said the U.S. will not restart military exercises with South Korea. Trump said in a tweet, which he characterized as an official White House statement, that “The President believes that his relationship with Kim Jong Un is a very good and warm one, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 28, 2018 Three South Korean firms imported North Korean coal from Russia in apparent violations of UN sanctions, according to South Korea’s spy chief. Suh Hoon, the chief of South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS), told lawmakers at a closed-door meeting on Aug. 28 that the NIS reported the coal shipments […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 28, 2018 A Chinese-owned company hacked Hillary Clinton’s private email server and embedded a code that enabled it to view nearly all of her emails, a report said. The Chinese firm, which was operating in the Washington, D.C. area as a “front” for the Chinese government, obtained Clinton’s emails in real […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 27, 2018 Any governing members of the Chinese Communist Party who continue to hold religious beliefs will be asked to leave the party under a new directive from supreme leader Xi Jinping. Xi has issued a fresh set of disciplinary rules for the party, Reuters reported on Aug. 27. “Party members […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 23, 2018 Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, just days after being sworn in, is looking to avert a financial crisis that could see the country turn over many of its strategic assets to China. Khan, a former cricket star, “must choose whether to dial back a Chinese-financed development program or increase […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 21, 2018 What works for communist China appears to be good enough for Facebook, some critics say. Earlier this year, China introduced a “social credit score” in which the communist government decides who in the country of 1.4 billion people is and isn’t trustworthy. Facebook is following Beijing’s lead with a […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 19, 2018 More than 1,400 employees at Google have signed a letter protesting the tech giant’s development of a new search engine for China that kowtows to the communist country’s strict censorship policy. The search engine project, known as Dragonfly, and prospects for Google’s return to China “raise urgent moral and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 16, 2018 The U.S. Treasury Department on Aug. 15 announced new sanctions on a Russian port service agency which aided North Korean ships and a Chinese firm and its Singapore affiliate which sold alcohol and tobacco products to Pyongyang in breach of current U.S. sanctions. Russian-based Profinet Pte Ltd and its […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 17, 2018 China is rapidly pursuing supreme leader Xi Jinping’s plan of having a modernized military that can “fight and win” wars, the Pentagon said. The People’s Liberation Army (PLA), which has the largest ground force in the world, is also training its pilots for strikes against U.S. and allied targets […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 15, 2018 Beijing has denied a UN official’s claim that more than 1 million Muslim Uighurs are being held in what is in effect a massive internment camp in communist China. Gay McDougall, a member of of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, said that China’s Xinjiang region […]
