The Chinese Communist Party on Thursday passed a resolution that essentially puts President Xi Jinping in the same category as Deng Xiaoping and Mao Zedong, while cementing his power in the country. Qu Qingshan, a senior party official, told a press conference on Friday that the resolution will help the CCP “to achieve future progress”...
Category: TRENDS IN GEOPOLITICS
COMEDY CRAP: AUSSIES WILL UNITE WITH U.S. TO DEFEND TAIWAN AGAINST CHINA
Australia seems to have learned from the U.S. how to leave just enough wiggle room in statements about defense for them not to mean anything. Peter Dutton, Canberra’s defense minister, said in a recent interview that his country will stand with the U.S. to defend Taiwan if Beijing attacked. “It would be inconceivable that we...
ISRAEL KEEPS BOMBING SYRIA
The Syrian state news agency SANA reported that Monday night, missile strikes from Israeli warplanes flying over Lebanon targeted sites in Syria, wounding two Syrian soldiers, wounding a woman and destroying a number of houses. As we have been reporting, Israel has admitted to launching hundreds of airstrikes into Syria that target Iranian troops, military...
MILITARY COUPS IN AFRICA HIT SPIKE. WORST IS YET TO COME
The Trends Journal has warned for months that COVID-19 lockdowns will lead to outbreaks of violence in countries that were already unstable prior to the virus. (SEE: “HISTORIC WAVE OF VIOLENCE, LOOTING IN SOUTH AFRICA,” and “COVID-19 LOCKDOWNS: COMPLETE POLICY FAILURES.”) Gerald Celente, the publisher of the magazine, has long said, “When people lose everything...
ETHIOPIA: A WAR OF DISASTER
Tigrayan fighters are bearing down on Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, prompting Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to call on the city’s five million residents to take up arms to counter the forces while enforcing a state of emergency that puts Tigrayan residents at risk of forced detainment. The Trends Journal has been reporting on the civil war since...
CHINA/TAIWAN TENSIONS RISING: WAR ON THE HORIZON?
Officials from the Chinese Communist Party said they will hold Taiwanese politicians bent on Taipei’s independence criminally liable for the rest of their lives and hurt them economically—marking the first time that Beijing vowed a form of punishment for these individuals. Zhu Fenglian, a spokeswoman from China’s Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau,...
ISRAEL’S NEW “SETTLEMENT” PLAN CONDEMNED BY U.S., EUROPE
Israel faced harsh criticism from the U.S. and Europe after announcing plans to allow thousands of new settlements in the occupied West Bank. The decision was seen as an unnecessary provocation just months after the Israeli clash with Palestine. (See “SPECIAL REPORT: THE GAZA WAR.”) Ned Price, the spokesman for the State Department, called the...
ISRAEL KEEPS STRIKING SYRIA WITH MISSILES
An Israeli missile strike on Saturday reportedly killed five in a Hezbollah and Iranian convoy. Antiwar.com reported that the strike hit a Damascus suburb and the artillery used was believed to be surface-to-air missiles. Tel Aviv did not comment on reports of the strike. SANA, Syria’s state news agency, reported that the Syrian air defenses shot...
ETHIOPIA WAR DISASTER WORSENS
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took to Facebook on Sunday to appeal to his countrymen to take up arms to thwart the military offensive by Tigrayan forces in the northern region of the country. Abiy, the former Nobel Peace Prize winner who went to war with Tigray after a local election during the COVID-19 outbreak,...
DUH! PENTAGON SURPRISED BY CHINA’S TEST OF HYPERSONIC MISSILE
Yes, America’s Pentagon. The “brilliant” leaders of America’s Military Industrial Complex who, as we keep reporting, have an unblemished post World War II track record of costly, deadly military failures were blindsided by China’s military advancements we have long been forecasting. Last week, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark A. Milley said...