Geostrategy-Direct China-Russia relations suffered yet another blow recently when Russia resolutely rejected a Chinese request to inspect and provide technical certification for a powerful rocket engine that the Chinese (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct China reported a “huge success” in its latest test of a hypersonic missile, while Russia claims it successfully tested what it called an “invincible” hypersonic weapon. The China (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Iran on Aug. 2 launched naval exercises similar to annual war games that are held in late Autumn. The naval drills were held just days before the U.S. (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Both chambers of the U.S. Congress reached an agreement on a comprehensive mammoth $717 billion defense bill on July 23 and the overwhelmingly bipartisan legislation passed in the (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Current and former intelligence officials said recently that decades of U.S. intel assessments of China are no longer valid. Meanwhile, a recent study by the Rand Corp. found (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The following is excerpted from a July 3 analysis by Yossef Bodansky, senior editor of GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs. It seemed everybody was ready to placate Kim Jong-Un (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The only free social media account not yet being censored by the Chinese government is the U.S. Embassy’s Twitter-like Weibo account registered in Beijing. The service has a (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct A great confluence of natural and man-made trends seems likely to set the pattern for imminent conflict escalation in the historical “Greater Syria,” Yossef Bodansky, wrote in an (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Russian President Vladimir Putin unveiled a “one-sided” arms control gambit during his summit with U.S. President Donald Trump in Helsinki that relies heavily on the Kremlin pursuing a (more…)
