The World Cup in Qatar: Brought to you by the People’s Republic of China
Geostrategy-Direct Dossier: China and the 2022 World Cup China does not have a team in the 2022 FIFA World Cup, but looms large over the tournament in Qatar. Having (more…)
Regime not yet threatened by massive anti-CCP protests, which need external support
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher For the first time in 33 years the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) is threatened by massive, nation-wide and staunchly anti-CCP protests, though not yet rising (more…)
Pentagon report: China buildup aims to transform world; Xi demands deference
Geostrategy-Direct China via its rapid military buildup aims to achieve political, social and economic modernity as defined by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that will ultimately transform the world, (more…)
North Korean officials in China ‘got chills’ watching anti-Xi protests
Geostrategy-Direct North Korean trade officials stationed in China said they “got chills” watching Chinese citizens take to the streets in protest of Xi Jinping’s Covid lockdown policies. The protests, (more…)
South Korea aims for the Moon and Mars
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Republic of Korea President Yoon Suk-Yeol committed his country to a larger and more ambitious space program in a Nov. 28 speech at the 2022 (more…)
U.S. warship challenges China’s occupation, militarization of disputed Spratly Islands
Geostrategy-Direct In a counter to China’s claim to own 90 percent of the South China Sea, the U.S. Navy on Nov. 29 carried out a freedom of navigation operation (more…)
Report: China has a 10-1 manpower advantage over U.S. Cyber Command
Geostrategy-Direct Tens of thousands of Chinese military hackers are preparing for war against the United States, according to a new U.S. congressional report. “China has engaged in a massive (more…)
Key IRGC members assassinated in Isfahan, Iran, Syria
Geostrategy-Direct Two high-ranking members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were assassinated just days apart, officials say. The IRGC’s Reza Dastani was killed on his way to work (more…)
Iran goes public with list of strategic sites in Israel it would target in war
Geostrategy-Direct A list of “sensitive” sites in Israel that could be targeted in a future conflict has been published by Iranian media outlets close to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard (more…)