Geostrategy-Direct Iran’s space program, which has made several attempts to put a satellite into orbit, is nothing more than a front for improving its ballistic missile capabilities, U.S. Secretary (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Dossier: China’s Strategic Support Force Excerpts from Analysis by Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs U.S. Attorney General William Barr announced on Feb. 10 the indictment (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Propaganda outlet Global Times, considered the editorial voice of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), published an in-depth report last week which cited Chinese experts as saying that the (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Amid high tensions with the U.S., and sanctions imposed by the Trump administration that have devastated its economy, Iran is increasingly, and publicly, reaching out to China. Iranian (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Despite reports of the China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) having been relatively absent from the Chinese government’s response to the spreading Wuhan coronavirus, this outbreak (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Dossier: Xi Jinping As the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) struggles mightily to assuage growing domestic outrage over its handling of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, supreme leader Xi (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct [The following is excerpted from a Feb. 10 analysis by Donald Kirk for The Daily Beast. Kirk is a contributing editor to Geostrategy-Direct.] SEOUL – North Korea’s not (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Three times so far in 2020 the People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) has conducted offensive aerial blockade exercises against Taiwan: the first on Jan, (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The United States confirmed it has halted a joint drone surveillance program with NATO ally Turkey that had been carried out in secret since 2007. U.S. officials, who (more…)
