Note to Subscribers: Summer break next week
Geostrategy-Direct Dear Subscribers, Our editors take annual summer and winter breaks. So we will take a breather with the next issue. Geostrategy-Direct.com will return with the August 30, 2022 (more…)
‘Black box’: MI6 chief sizes up China’s seemingly unlimited intelligence threat
Geostrategy-Direct [MI6 is still cool and, according to spy movie lore, more astute and efficient than the American CIA. But no James Bond has penetrated the Chinese Communist Party’s (more…)
Analyst warns: ‘We are in a second moon race: This time for keeps’
Geostrategy-Direct “We must be very concerned that China is landing on the moon and saying: ‘It’s ours now and you stay out,’ ” Bill Nelson, NASA administrator, said in (more…)
Indictment: China hired investigators, got U.S. data, to target dissidents
Geostrategy-Direct The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted five men on charges of acting as foreign agents of China in a scheme aimed at monitoring and harassing Chinese dissidents (more…)
PLA sent 555 warplanes to intimidate Taiwan vs 187 in same period of 2021
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher In a rare release of cumulative figures, Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense has disclosed that China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) sent 555 aircraft on coercive (more…)
U.S., in first, IDs and sanctions Chinese firms providing military support to Russia
Geostrategy-Direct Five Chinese companies linked to armed sales to Russia were among 23 Chinese firms sanctioned by the U.S. Commerce Department last week. In addition to the five Chinese (more…)
Russia’s Plan B in Ukraine
Geostrategy-Direct The story in Ukraine pressed by the Biden administration and its allies in legacy media has been that Russian President Vladimir Putin had vastly underestimated the capability and (more…)
House committee delivers rebuke to Team Biden on tac nukes
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher It may be a pyrrhic victory but it is worth noting. On June 22 the Armed Services Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives authorized (more…)
Analysis: Moscow deterred U.S., gained ‘strategic initiative’ with nuclear threats
Geostrategy-Direct Via the constant threat of using his arsenal of nuclear weapons, Russian leader Vladimir Putin has gained the strategic upper hand in Ukraine as the U.S. and other (more…)