Geostrategy-Direct Analysis by Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials on Dec. 27, 2021, placed the city of Xian under tight lockdown restrictions (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China’s bold strategy of selling weapons to conflicting sides in major regional conflicts has been used to increase Beijing’s influence, usually at the expense of (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The North Korean communist regime’s phenomenal 70-years-long success at sealing off the “Hermit Kingdom” from the outside world did not stop third-generation dynastic ruler Kim Jong-Un from taking (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Hizbullah has expressed strong opposition in recent months to the ongoing investigation into the 2020 port explosion in Beirut in which more than 200 people were killed and (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The Pentagon has been banned from funding any work in China by New York-based, taxpayer-supported EcoHealth Alliance, an NGO that worked closely with the Wuhan Institute of Virology (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct During his many visits to Taiwan over those two decades, Xie Xizhang presented himself as a Hong Kong businessman. But he was on a secret mission to recruit (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Nearly 80 years after the famous Dec. 10, 1941 Battle of Singapore, when Japanese Air Force and Naval Air Force bombers sank the British battleships (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Iran plans to more than double its funding allocation to the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) next year. The increase likely reflects Iran’s response to the U.S. (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Dec. 17, China Daily reported that the Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Co Ltd “floated,” or essentially launched the first of China’s “homegrown” 135,000-ton cruise ships. (more…)
