Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk President Donald Trump has now made his first substantive move in foreign policy with broad repercussions for Northeast Asia, including both Korea and Japan. The consequences may be far-reaching. By signing an executive order formally withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), Trump has signaled that he may actually carry […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Natalya Yakovleva, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty KYSHTOVKY, Russia — In the early 1990s, Eugen Martens and his family left Siberia’s Omsk Oblast hoping to build a better future in Germany. Now, at the age of 45, he, his wife, and their 10 children have returned to Russia, fleeing what he […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 25, 2017 Chinese President Xi Jinping is “stepping up” as the new defender of globalism. As a populist wave swept through Europe and ushered in the Trump administration in Washington, Xi was in Switzerland vowing to leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos that China was ready to play a […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 25, 2017 The failure of Kim Jong-Un to stop the flow of information and market activities into North Korea could derail the young leader’s regime, a high-ranking defector said on Jan. 25. “I am sure that more defections of my colleagues will take place, since North Korea is already on a […]
Geostrategy-Direct Top headlines in the Jan. 24, 2017 edition. Japan’s Abe stepped up as Obama dithered The real Trump dossier: Reforming U.S. intelligence China salivates at the paralysis in Seoul
by WorldTribune Staff, January 25, 2017 California ‘dreamin’? One in every three California residents supports the state’s withdrawal from the union, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll. California, the world’s sixth-largest economy and boasting a population of 39 million, went two-to-one in favor of Hillary Clinton in the November election. The U.S. Constitution lays […]
Special to WorldTribune.com by Dr. Jack Caravelli, Geostrategy-Direct By an 8-3 vote, the UK Supreme Court ruled that Prime Minister Theresa May’s government must have parliamentary approval to end the UK’s membership in the European Union (EU). The vote would be required for the government to invoke Article 50 of the European Charter, the process […]
Special to WorldTribune , January 24, 2017 By Michael Breen SEOUL — The vision of the new American president, Donald Trump to “put America first” captures the shift in the American role in the world that has been going on for the past 25 years. For all the policy nervousness it is causing here and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 24, 2017 Republicans have long voiced concern over the threat of terrorists entering the U.S. from Mexico, a concern the Obama administration largely downplayed. Available data suggest the concern is justified, according to a Jan. 15 report by the Christian Science Monitor which included 10 incidents of terror suspects and enablers […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 24, 2017 President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) said he is ready to “fire up the weed whacker” and cut down net neutrality rules. Trump on Jan. 23 designated Ajit Pai, a Republican member of the FCC, to be the agency’s new chairman. “Pai is a […]
