After intense year of summitry, Trump, Kim and Xi keep the world guessing
Geostrategy-Direct Kim Jong-Un is the leader of North Korea – and of high profile summits. Kim arrived in China this week for his fourth meeting in a year with (more…)
Moon government forced to explain silence on high level North Korean defection
Geostrategy-Direct The leftist government of President Moon Jae-In in South Korea vehemently denies having anything to do with one of the highest profiled North Korean defections, causing speculation that (more…)
Tokyo-Seoul legal tensions mount with imminent asset seizures in South Korea
Geostrategy-Direct Japan and South Korea are bracing for an explosive wave of forced seizures of Japanese assets in South Korea in compliance with a Korean court’s controversial ruling on (more…)
Skeptic not buying the inevitability of China’s rise, U.S. decline
Geostrategy-Direct “This geopolitical recession is something really simple – it’s the end of the U.S.-led global order,” Ian Bremmer, head of risk advisers at the Eurasia Group, told those assembled at (more…)
Tokyo-Seoul tensions flare over radar targeting on high seas
Geostrategy-Direct Japan’s defense ministry ignited a fierce spat with South Korea on Dec. 28 by posting on its official website a 13-minute video showing a South Korean navy ship (more…)
Editor’s note: Winter break
Geostrategy-Direct Dear Subscribers, We will be taking our annual winter holiday leave with the next issue. Geostrategy-Direct.com will return with it January 1, 2019 edition. With warm wishes for (more…)
Debt traps: How China confiscates poor nations’ strategic transport hubs and what to do about it
Geostrategy-Direct Poor countries are being enticed by the communist Chinese government to hire Chinese firms to build expensive infrastructure projects. When the countries fail to meet their payment obligations (more…)
Japan unveils hard evidence of Chinese electronic firms’ spying hardware
Geostrategy-Direct After months of investigating, the Japanese government announced on Dec. 10 a comprehensive ban of any government purchase of products by China’s top two electronics giants Huawei and (more…)
Shock poll shows historic shift in Japan’s public opinion on Northern Territories
Geostrategy-Direct The world’s longest post-war territorial dispute between two major world powers is having a new twist: A new poll found that more than half of Japanese people agree (more…)