Geostrategy-Direct Russian President Vladimir Putin choreographed a three-day red-carpeted extravaganza in Moscow for the visiting Vietnamese supreme leader, Nguyen Phu Trong, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The following excerpts are from an analysis by GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s very deliberate political and security affront and challenge to the U.S. (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct A Chinese military aircraft entered the South Korea Air Defense Identification Zone [KADIZ] without prior notice and announcement on Aug. 29 and loitered around for 4 hours, according (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Supreme leader Xi Jinping is pushing communist China’s hardline agenda worldwide via soft “United Front” influence operations which include paying Washington think tanks to reinforce Beijing’s policies, a (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The Chinese government-controlled electronics giants Huawei and ZTE are to be banned in Russia, according to an Aug. 20 report by the Russian news organization the Kommersant, citing government (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Lt. Gen. Yang Hui of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army has been arrested by the PLA’s internal security forces for “suspicion of violation of military disciplines,” the Hong (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct President Donald Trump’s approach to North Korea in 2018 has resulted in a much quieter year on the Korean Peninsula, a top U.S. commander said. “I can tell (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, or DEA, will soon set up a Taipei office to enhance bilateral cooperation, a major step by the U.S. government to elevate government-to-government (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct One year after a tense and prolonged armed standoff in the Indian-Chinese border region known as Doklam, Chinese troops disguised as shepherds sneaked into the Indian controlled territory (more…)