This Saudi ruler is no American asset
Geostrategy-Direct Dossier: Mohammed Bin Salman By Steve Rodan, China in the Middle East Mohammed Bin Salman is young, brash and ruthless. What sets him apart from his Saudi colleagues (more…)
‘Starvation pandemic’: Not just Sri Lanka but Iran, Ethiopia, South Africa, China
Geostrategy-Direct Dossier: Global Food Shortage Analysis by Gregory Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs Sri Lanka’s current dire problems — in which popular street action has thrown out, first, (more…)
No Winnie the Pooh: Pew international poll finds 7 in 10 flatly dislike Xi Jinping
Geostrategy-Direct Dossier: China’s Xi Jinping Oh, bother. Xi Jinping has been General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and Chairman of its Central Military Commission since 2012. He has (more…)
26 navies gather in the Pacific for RIMPAC; Japan tracks Russian, Chinese warships
Geostrategy-Direct Dossier: RIMPAC 2022 Amid increased activity in the western Pacific by Chinese and Russian warships, the U.S. and allied naval forces were set to launch Rim of the (more…)
China’s Confucius Institutes, shuttered in Trump era, resurface with new names
Geostrategy-Direct Dossier: China’s Influence Operations in U.S. Viewing them as major national security threats, the Trump administration precipitated the closing of some 100 Beijing-linked Confucius Institutes across the United (more…)
U.S. report: China exploiting global infrastructure of pirated networks
Geostrategy-Direct Dossier: China’s Comprehensive Cyber Theft Program Hackers linked to the communist government in China are systematically exploiting software vulnerabilities and pirating information through cyber intrusions on a worldwide (more…)
U.S. revives arms control policies despite China ‘breakout’, Russian advances
Geostrategy-Direct Dossier: Team Biden’s Arms Control Policy Ignoring warnings from the prior administration and several national security analysts that China and Russia would continue to develop “breakout” arms technology, (more…)
As China demanded, Biden policy makes clear U.S. is not anti-communist
Geostrategy-Direct Dossier: Team Biden’s China Policy Even though it confirmed that, under supreme leader Xi Jinping, the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has become “more repressive at home and (more…)
PLA anti-carrier exercises aim to keep U.S. fleet away from key island chains
Geostrategy-Direct Dossier: China’s Anti-Ship Missiles China has constructed in the desert area of western Xinjiang a rail-based target in the shape of a U.S. aircraft carrier that military analysts (more…)