Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher In a stark demonstration that Mother Nature can pose a formidable and unexpected obstacle to potential Chinese plans to achieve “unification by force” with Taiwan, (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher A Panel of Experts gave a report to the United Nations Security Council on Aug. 27, with an Annex at the end of the 141-page (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher TAIPEI — During a meeting here on Aug. 26, a source close to the leadership of the government of Taiwan told Geostrategy-Direct of fears that (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct U.S. national security officials were “not forewarned” last month when South Korea said it was withdrawing from an intelligence-sharing agreement with Japan, the Pentagon’s senior Asia policy official (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The United States and Russia gave the go-ahead for Israel to launch airstrikes on Iranian weapons warehouses in Iraq, a report said. Citing a Western diplomatic source, the (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher The upcoming annual Japanese Defense White Paper will disclose the Japanese estimate that North Korea has “achieved” miniaturization of their nuclear warheads, according to Japanese (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Chinese propaganda outlets in recent days have published reports seen as evidence China’s ruling Communist Party (CCP) is preparing the mainland population for a major military crackdown on (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Chinese web pages have revealed tantalizing indications of China’s pursuit of stealth combat aircraft. On Aug. 7 images were posted of a strip of pins (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs All attention is focused on the twists-and-turns of the very noisy U.S.-Iran dispute in the Persian Gulf, but all (more…)
