Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com Judging by the rhetoric of the official Chinese media and military commentators, the Chinese Communist Party authorities seem to be readying a small-scale naval skirmish to “teach the Philippines a lesson.” Yet at the same time, Beijing is brandishing non-military solutions, such as joint development of oil and [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com ABU DHABI — Despite international naval patrols, Somali piracy continues in the Gulf region. Somali pirates hijacked an oil tanker in the Arabian Sea 630 kilometers from the coast of Oman on May 10. The Liberian-flagged Smyrni, operated by a Greek company, was carrying 135,000 tons of oil and said to have [...]
Lev Navrozov It seems that quite recently things looked so promising in Russia. In my recent columns, I happily noticed that there are quite a few burgeoning signs of freedom in Russia that were impossible even to think of in my time: freedom of travel, freedom to leave the country, or start your own business. [...]
John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Tone, tenor, and style separate Nicolas Sarkozy from Francois Hollande as much as clear political ideology divided the two contenders for the French presidency. But sentiments like voter discontent, backlash and anti-austerity describe the mood French voters were in when they elected the Socialist candidate. Francois Hollande’s victory with [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — Egypt and Israel have ended any pretense at normalization, a report said. The Institute of National Security Studies asserted that the Egyptian cancellation of a natural gas contract marked the last element in normalization with Israel. The Israeli institute said the Egyptian cancellation of was the result of Islamic [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — For the first time since their deployment more than 30 years ago, members of an international peacekeeping force have been abducted in Egypt. Egyptian security sources said Bedouins linked to Al Qaida have been targeting officers of the Multinational Force and Observers in the Sinai Peninsula. The sources said 10 [...]
Lev Navrozov One of our family’s aims in coming out of Russia and to the United States was to help Westerners to understand Russia, from which the West was cut off for almost a century, their only main source of information being what Soviet propaganda was feeding them. This week, as I was writing my [...]
Lev Navrozov Even Stalin would have had a very long way to go before becoming the owner of the globe. Russia, which Stalin seized as its absolute owner, had technologically lagged behind the countries with developed capitalist systems. Germany, for example, had become industrialized long before Russia. It is hard to imagine what Russia would [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com SEOUL — The job of a journalist for the North Korean propaganda machine surely must be one of the more fun-filled gigs in the media business. Imagine the laughs the writers up there must be having as they dream up fresh turns of phrase with which to pillory [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com East-Asia-Intel.com Few key military leaders believed to have been friends or allies of disgraced Party strongman Bo Xilai have expressed enthusiastic support for his ouster. This indicates that Hu Jintao, China’s current supreme leader, may have encountered oblique resistance to the purge. Typically, after civilian leaders have been purged, it is not [...]
