Geostrategy-Direct William Lai Ching-te, Taiwan’s newly minted prime minister, is making waves in Taipei, Beijing and Washington with his firebrand approach to a series of sensitive issues, the most (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct While U.S. Democrats and the major media continue to obsess over Russia’s alleged meddling in the 2016 election, a new report notes that China under President Xi Jinping (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The Chinese communist government’s counterintelligence agency snared at least two key Taiwan spies working at the inner core of Beijing’s Taiwan policy administration, according to press reports in (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has conceived a secret plan to invade and take over Taiwan by 2020, internal Chinese military documents show. The plan “calls for massive (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Weibo is one of the world’s largest microblogging services, the equivalent of Twitter, with 360 million active users. It is also one of the most restricted and censored (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct On Sept. 23, U.S. B-1B bombers from Guam, escorted by F-15C Eagle fighter jets from Okinawa, Japan, flew over waters east of North Korea in a mission that (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un has apparently banned people near the nuclear test site from entering the capital city of Pyongyang. The concern is that the spreading (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Its battlefield forces are facing total annihilation at the hands of the U.S. coalition’s precision airstrikes, but the Islamic State (ISIS) is shifting its tactics to guerrilla warfare. (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Chinese officials at different levels have since early September issued directives to large tour agencies aimed at reducing by half the number of tour groups visiting Japan. The (more…)
