Geostrategy-Direct Dossier: National Security Policy Under Xi Jinping In the early stages of his regime, the official security policy of Chinese leader Xi Jinping emphasized ideology and the endemic (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Dossier: U.S. Bases on Okinawa Okinawa, the main island in the Ryukyu Island chain, sits between the southern Japan mainland, Taiwan, and China. It is also close to (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Dossier: Turkey’s Erdogan Era Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has governed quite differently in his 20 years in power. His tenure began under the eye of the secular (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Dossier: Richard Nixon’s Sino-Soviet Strategy Analysis by Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs The U.S. has, since the removal of President Richard Nixon in 1974, been (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Dossier: Taiwan’s Strategic Assets Berkshire Hathaway recently divested 86 percent of its more than $4 billion in the Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC. Berkshire chairman and CEO Warren Buffeft told (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Dossier: China-UAE Strategic Relations U.S. intelligence detected new construction at a suspected Chinese military facility located in the United Arab Emirates, according to documents leaked in recent months (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Dossier: U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen The Biden team in Washington does not see the U.S. relationship with China as a “zero sum game,” U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Dossier: Communist China’s United Front Work Department The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) organ that Mao Zedong referred to as one of the party’s “magic weapons” has been tasked (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Dossier: Taiwan’s Strategic Value to CCP Why is China so determined to subdue the tiny island nation (23 million population) of Taiwan? “Any effort to neutralize Chinese aggression (more…)