Geostrategy-Direct Fearful of further U.S. sanctions for doing business with Iran, the Chinese government has ordered its two petroleum monopolies to cease importing oil from Iran, at least for (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Harry Harris said South Korean President Moon Jae-In must coordinate his ambitions for reconciliation with North Korea with the U.S., whose military forces (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct On Oct. 3, Russia’s Eastern Military District announced that a newly formed Russian motorized infantry unit will take part in a joint military drill near the Chinese border (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct North Korea watchers in Washington and East Asia are increasingly shifting their attention South to the leftist government in Seoul. Since the impeachment, ouster and imprisonment of anti-communist (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Under enormous Chinese government pressure and threat, the Malaysian government has decided to free 11 Uyghur refugees to Turkey instead of sending them back to China to face (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Russia’s move to deliver the S-300 surface-to-air missile system to Syria signals that President Vladimir Putin is increasingly acting as Iran’s ally in its war against Israel and (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Despite its ties to Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on America, the bin Laden clan’s construction business in Saudi Arabia always (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct China’s highest ranked Uighur communist official, Nury Bekri, was arrested at the Beijing Capital International Airport on Sept. 20 immediately after he stepped out of the plane that (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct China’s “Belt and Road” initiative would suffer a devastating blow if Beijing’s dispute with Japan over the Senkaku islands leads to a military standoff, according to an internal (more…)