Geopolitics

78th UN General Assembly opens amid myriad of crises

Presidents, prime ministers, kings and potentates are converging on New York for the opening session of the United Nations General Assembly. The 78th annual Assembly of the world organization presents both a global gala and expanded Summit meeting to try to solve a myriad of crises facing the international community. Read More.

Pro-North Left in South Korea honors communists

While in the U.S. communists were toppling statues of American heroes nationwide, South Korea's pro-North leftists were erecting statues of communists. Read More.

USAF Secretary: China actively preparing for war with U.S.

China is developing its military might at a rapid pace to prepare for war with the United States, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall warned on Monday. Read More.

N. Korea nuclear submarine has Chinese characteristics

On Sept. 6, amid a broadcast North Korean ceremony, dictator Kim Jong-Un presided over the official launch ceremony of his new large conventionally-powered ballistic-missile-armed submarine (SSB), called “841,” and suggested it may be the first of many, posing an increasing regional nuclear and a global proliferation threat. Read More.

In 2023, global conflicts widen, endure and spread

The tragic collapse of Kabul to the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban signaled the last sordid chapter in the Biden Administration’s appalling and shambolic “withdrawal” from America’s longest military commitment. But beyond the perceived American weakness and strategic myopia it glaringly manifest, the Afghan debacle incentivized what political scientists dub as “bad actors” such as Russia and Communist China. Read More.

China, N. Korea threats prompt Japan's record defense spending

On Aug. 31 Japan’s Ministry of Defense requested a record budget of $59.9 billion for the fiscal budget year that begins on April 1, 2024. Read More.

Hoax pushed by Canada's Left led to burining of 81 churches

Leftists activists claimed that there were "mass graves" of indigenous children at residential schools across Canada. It was revealed as a hoax, reports say. Read More.

Preoccupied? Xi missed major speech at BRICS summit

Communist Party leader Xi Jinping was so preoccupied with internal conditions back home in China that he skipped out on a major speech last week at the BRICS summit in South Africa, observers surmised. Read More.

Climate change? Manhunt for Canary Islands arsonists

Authorities in Spain said forest fires that have burned 120 million square meters on the Canary Islands has forced evacuations in 11 of the 31 municipalities of Tenerife. Read More.

Trump: Carter allowed Chinese control of Panama Canal

Former President Donald Trump: "We cannot let China be in Cuba. If I'm president, then they'll get out because I had a very good relationship with President Xi because he respected this country and he respected me. We can't let them run the Panama Canal. And we gave it away for one dollar. Think of that. How stupid are we?" Read More.

As terror attacks increase, Biden releases billions to Iran

The Biden Administration appears to have successfully circumvented Congressional oversight in approving the release of billions in funds for Iran in a mid-August prisoner-exchange deal. Read More.

800 percent increase in Chinese migrants crossing U.S. border

The number of migrants from China attempting to illegally enter the United States via the southern border has increased by about 800 percent, according to Border Patrol data. Read More.

Yoon, S. Korea's ‘new Right’ key to Camp David summit

An unprecedented trilateral summit at Camp David between South Korea, Japan, and the United States countered the successful divide-and-conquer tactics used by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to expand its military's regional power in what CCP leaders call the post-U.S. era. Read More.

‘Ecuador has been a colony of China since 2007’

A journalist and presidential candidate who had denounced communist China's influence and confiscation of Ecuador's natural resources was assassinated during a shootout on Aug. 9. Read More.

USS Reagan monitors PLA amid high-level Taiwan-U.S. visit

On Aug. 12 and 13 Taiwan’s Vice President Lai Ching-te (William) visited New York City, departing for Paraguay on the evening of the 13th, and guess what, the world did not end. Read More.