Geopolitics

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.

Russia's expanding footprint seen in Niger coup

The recent military coup d’etat in Niger, a vast and arid land on the southern tier of the Sahara, underscores the widening political crisis in Africa’s Sahel region, where instability, dire poverty and Islamic jihadi terrorism, have stalked the land. Read More.

Russia winning drone war with help from Iran, China

Despite U.S. artificial intelligence advances in weaponry, Russia is thus far winning the drone war in Ukraine, an analyst said. Read More.

Analyst: Stop the insanity and ban Chinese EVs

Keep in mind that American taxpayers are subsidizing our nation's growing energy dependence on a would-be communist superpower. Read More.

NY Times backs call for genocide in South Africa

At the same time Big Media in the U.S. were warning that Donald Trump's post on Truth Social, saying "If you go after me, I'm coming after you," amounted to a threat, The New York Times said that a chant at a South African political rally which called for killing white people "should not be taken as a literal call to violence." Read More.

The first ‘Axis of Evil’ celebrates in Pyongyang

While the fighting stopped, the Korean War was not ended by the 1953 armistice, so it is with great foreboding that 70 years later, the inheritors of that first Axis of Evil met again and even took to the parade dais. Read More.