by WorldTribune Staff, August 13, 2018 China’s ongoing efforts to erase references to Taiwan as an independent nation will not succeed, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen said in Los Angeles on Aug. 12. Beijing has formally protested her U.S. stopovers on a trip to Latin America. “In going abroad, the whole world can see Taiwan; they […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 12, 2018 The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) released a new propaganda video this month which shows off China’s latest weaponry and includes some provocative rhetoric. At one point in the 2:20-minute video titled “I am a Chinese Soldier”, the narrator says “peace behind me, war in front of me.” The PLA’s […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 6, 2018 China has banned the release of “Christopher Robin”, a new live-action Disney movie which features Winnie the Pooh and his cast of friends. Chinese supreme leader Xi Jinping is said to be furious over memes that compare him to the portly honey-loving bear and censors have cracked down on […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 30, 2018 In January of this year, for the second time in less than three years, academic and poet Gui Minhai, a Chinese-born Swedish citizen, was abducted. Gui “was riding a train from Shanghai to Beijing in the company of two Swedish diplomats” when “10 Chinese plainclothesmen stormed aboard, lifted him […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 22, 2018 Hundreds of Chinese companies are flocking to North Korea as sanctions show signs of loosening amid Kim Jong-Un’s pledge of denuclearization. Beijing may be looking to counter the initiative taken by the U.S. at the historic Singapore summit, during which President Donald Trump presented Kim with a vision and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 21, 2018 China is loosening sanctions on North Korea after Kim Jong-Un’s most recent visit to Beijing, a report said. Signs of China’s easing of sanctions on the North are already noticeable in the fields of aviation and tourism, Yonhap said in a June 21 report. Kim’s visit to Beijing earlier […]
Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, June 19, 2018 North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un on June 19 began a two-day visit to Beijing being viewed as a vain attempt by China’s maximum leader Xi Jinping to save face after the international spectacle of the historic June 12 Kim-Trump summit. In his third visit to China in as […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 24, 2018 U.S. President Donald Trump on May 24, in a letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, said he was canceling the summit between the two which had been scheduled for June 12 in Singapore. “Sadly, based on the tremendous anger and open hostility displayed in your most recent statement, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 23, 2018 The positive momentum and good-will between the U.S. and North Korea in recent months was suddenly interrupted earlier this month as the North’s belligerent attitude returned. In response, U.S. President Donald Trump pointed to a second meeting between North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un and Chinese supreme leader Xi Jinping […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 21, 2018 China for the first time sent a long-range, nuclear-capable bomber to an island in the South China Sea. Chinese state media on May 18 released a video showing the H-6K bomber landing and taking off from Woody Island, Beijing’s largest base in the Paracel Islands. The Pentagon said China’s […]
