White House maintains tough China policy; Kissinger seeks return to appeasement

White House maintains tough China policy; Kissinger seeks return to appeasement

FPI / November 25, 2020 Geostrategy-Direct.com Earlier this month, U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order barring U.S. financial investment in Chinese companies linked to the People’s Liberation Army. The order is aimed at blocking more than $500 billion in investments by Chinese military-linked companies in U.S. and foreign markets. White House trade advisor […]

Eyewitness: How Hugo Chavez stole the August 2004 election in Venezuela

Eyewitness: How Hugo Chavez stole the August 2004 election in Venezuela

by WorldTribune Staff, November 24, 2020 One of the leading opposition voices against the socialist regime in Venezuela has detailed how dictator Hugo Chavez in 2004 put in place a voting system to rig the country’s elections in the socialists’ favor. In a Nov. 23 interview with ElAmerican.com, Maria Corina Machado, Venezuelan civil rights leader […]

Last straw: In protest of runaway government corruption, Guatemalans burn their Congress

Last straw: In protest of runaway government corruption, Guatemalans burn their Congress

by WorldTribune Staff, November 22, 2020 Angry protesters who say they have had enough of what they call a series of corrupt government policies broke into Guatemala’s Congress and burned part of the building on Saturday. The protesters said the last straw was a move by President Alejandro Giammattei and the legislature approving in secret […]

Covid tyranny? Berlin police hose down, beat peaceful crowds protesting lockdown law

Covid tyranny? Berlin police hose down, beat peaceful crowds protesting lockdown law

FPI / November 20, 2020 BERLIN — As they say, the last check on tyranny is civil disobedience. In Germany, police in riot gear fired water cannons in an attempt to disperse thousands of protesters fed up with the government’s highly restrictive covid lockdown and outraged at a new law that was pushed through with […]

Trump administration points to new signs of Chinese nuclear weapon buildup

Trump administration points to new signs of Chinese nuclear weapon buildup

FPI / November 20, 2020 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher In the early to mid-2010s as the People’s Liberation Army Second Artillery, called the PLA Rocket Force after 2015, was clearly developing new and more varied intercontinental range missiles, some analysts and arms control experts held that this was not evidence per se that China was […]

Study finds masks don’t reduce coronavirus infection rates

Study finds masks don’t reduce coronavirus infection rates

by WorldTribune Staff, November 19, 2020 Follow the science. A large-scale study conducted by researchers in Denmark has found that there is no evidence that wearing a face mask minimizes the risk of contracting the coronavirus. In the study, published on Nov. 18 in the Annals of Internal Medicine, a randomized-control trial found no statistically […]

State Dept. report: China aims to control ‘globe-spanning universal society’

State Dept. report: China aims to control ‘globe-spanning universal society’

by WorldTribune Staff, November 18, 2020 The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has combined its brand of Marxism-Leninism and extreme nationalism to pursue a goal of maintaining absolute power at home while instituting a global socialist order, said a report by the policy planning staff at the U.S. State Department. “The communism that the [CCP] professes […]

China seen eliminating political dissent in Hong Kong as opposition bloc resigns en masse

China seen eliminating political dissent in Hong Kong as opposition bloc resigns en masse

by WorldTribune Staff, November 17, 2020 In its intent to crush all opposition, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) last week forced the expulsion of four pro-democracy lawmakers in Hong Kong. The move prompted the remaining members of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy bloc to resign in protest, Natasha Khan reported for the Wall Street Journal. Prior to […]

Here is how the United States judged the credibility of past foreign elections

Here is how the United States judged the credibility of past foreign elections

by WorldTribune Staff, November 11, 2020 If judged by the standards the United States applies to other nations, how would the 2020 U.S. presidential election be evaluated by election observers and analysts in the United States? For example, a report given to Congress in 2009 about Iran’s presidential election criticizes that regime for obscuring election […]

U.S. official warns Pax Sinica would require Americans’ obedience

U.S. official warns Pax Sinica would require Americans’ obedience

FPI / November 11, 2020 Geostrategy-Direct.com An aggressive and intrusive Chinese Communist Party (CCP) “not only rejects our democratic political principles, but it sees them as a prime vulnerability that it can exploit,” the U.S. assistant secretary of state for East Asia and Pacific affairs said in a recent speech. “A future Pax Sinica fully […]

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