FPI / April 24, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher One of China’s most effective stratagems is to create conflicts that promote divisions between countries or peoples, and then to exploit the ensuing tension to its benefit. This it has been using in the Middle East to displace American power. In Mid-April 2025 an American formation […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, April 7, 2025 China’s growing naval power is regularly and systematically harassing the waters around Taiwan in what appears to be rehearsal exercises for a future invasion of the self-ruled democratic island. Units of the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) as well as swarms of military aircraft regularly […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, March 31, 2025 Two powerful earthquakes jolted and devastated Myanmar, aka Burma, causing widespread death, destruction and dislocation for a country already reeling from the effects of ongoing civil conflict. The 7.7 Scale quakes created stunning devastation in central Myanmar as well as into neighboring Thailand killing 1,700 […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, February 20, 2025 Three years into Russia’s war against Ukraine, there seems to be a chance for peace. But this political intermezzo may be as fleeting as the approaching Spring weather to soon sweep the steppes yet at the same time remains a worthwhile window of opportunity for […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, February 13, 2025 The Panama Canal is back in the headlines after President Donald Trump raised political and security concerns over the future of the strategic waterway linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The heart of the President’s argument is that the Canal, built and paid for by […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, February 7, 2025 Four years following a Beijing-backed military coup which turned the clock back from an elected, if flawed, democratic government to an authoritarian and corrupt military regime, the Southeast Asian country of Myanmar/aka Burma has sunk into new socio/economic depths. Significantly, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, January 20, 2025 A series of widening wars, growing humanitarian crises and simmering foreign conflicts are among the list of foreign policy/security woes confronting President Donald Trump. From day one of his administration the president must assess and prioritize U.S. policy interests in key regions both on the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, January 9, 2025 Everybody, it seems, is suddenly interested in Greenland. Not just the United States, but Canada, Russia, China all are vying for a foothold on the Arctic island. A fantastically beautiful but often foreboding place locked in ice and isolation, Greenland’s remoteness has been both its […]
Special to WorldTribune.com, January 23, 2023 Corporate WATCH Commentary by Joe Schaeffer Richard Edelman, influential CEO of public relations powerhouse Edelman, made quite the splash at the World Economic Forum’s Davos 2023 annual meeting last week. Two of his revealing remarks were singled out and duly criticized in “conservative” circles, yet few (if any) of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk The history of the media is full of stories about journalists who defied authority, risked death covering wars and sought stories behind cover-ups. Few media heroes can match Jimmy Lai, founder of Apple Daily, a Hong Kong paper that was shut down last year after 26 years of defending […]
