Beijing sent 77 military airplanes near Taiwan’s airspace within 48 hours last week, which was the highest number reported since Taipei has been counting. Chinese President Xi Jinping told its military to “heighten its readiness and prepare for warfighting,” Derek Grossman, a senior defense analyst at the RAND Corporation policy think tank, told CNN. Despite the...
A United Nations committee released a damning report on Thursday that painted a dire picture of the conditions in Tigray that includes widespread malnutrition, blaming the Ethiopian government that launched the civil war in November 2020 for staging a blockade against essential aid. The report prompted Ethiopia officials to demand that the UN leave the...
The Wall Street Journal, on 24 September, reported that multinational companies operating in China are feeling the effects of China’s policies that show favoritism toward Chinese state-owned companies; a survey by the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai showed an increase in companies feeling the pinch of such favoritism, especially in fields like technology, pharmaceuticals...
For well over a year, the Trends Journal has warned that the massive economic consequences of the COVID-19 War will lead to desperation in poorer countries and there will be a flood of refugees seeking safe-haven nations like the U.S. The report even made the cover of our 3 March issue: “CORONAVIRUS 9/11 – SPREADING TERROR.” We also predicted...
The U.S. and China showed little interest to collide over who they believe should be the credentialed representative from Myanmar at the United Nations and agreed to block the military junta’s envoy from addressing the General Assembly that took place last week in New York. The agreement was seen as a stinging blow to the...
In celebration of another multi-trillion dollar American military defeat, the end of the Afghan War, the longest war in American history, the U.S. House on Thursday approved its $778 billion fiscal 2022 National Defense Authorization Act. With a strong 316-113 majority vote, the House injected about $25 billion more in spending than President Biden proposed...
Argentina’s ruling Peronist party suffered sweeping defeats last week during the country’s midterm primary and political observers point to Buenos Aires’ decision to enforce strict COVID-19 lockdowns that did a better job at stopping its economic growth than preventing infections. “We know there’s a lot of sadness and pain in the country, and not a...
Salih Mustafa, the former Kosovo Liberation Army KLA unit commander, is on trial in The Hague stemming from Kosovo’s 1998-1999 war and faces allegations that he murdered and tortured suspected collaborators with enemy Serbs. “You will see the victims of Mr. Mustafa were fellow Kosovo Albanians…They were not enemies of the state of Kosovo, they...
Following the U.S. deal to sell Australia nuclear submarines, Chinese President Xi Jinping refused to meet with President Joe Biden after the U.S. leader hinted at the possibility during a phone call last week with Xi. President Xi used “a less abrasive language than his top diplomat had done this year but his overall message...
The Trends Journal has reported extensively on President Biden’s approach to China, a country he sees as the U.S.’s top international challenge. (See: “TOP TRENDS 2021: THE RISE OF CHINA,” “BIDEN RAMPS UP PRESSURE ON CHINA,” and “BIDEN VS. CHINA’S BELT & ROAD INITIATIVE: U.S. LOSES.”) We’ve written that the 20th century belonged to the U.S., but the...