The Huawei colossus: Too big to take down?
Geostrategy-Direct Huawei Technologies Co. is currently the world’s largest supplier of telecom equipment and the No. 2 producer of mobile phones. It is also the most aggressive arm of (more…)
The president and his spies: He works with them now, but many are still out to get him
Geostrategy-Direct President Donald Trump’s relationship with the U.S. intelligence community has improved under Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who was also Trump’s first CIA director, and national security adviser (more…)
Pompeo gives a world tour of strategic hot zones
Geostrategy-Direct Following are excerpts from U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s Dec. 10 interview on the Hugh Hewitt Show. China is ‘greatest threat’ Question: Is the People’s Republic of China (more…)
Retired generals in Seoul sound alarm: ‘Disastrous collapse’ of national security
Geostrategy-Direct On Nov. 21, a group representing more than 400 retired South Korean generals gathered at the Korean War Memorial Museum at Yongsan, Seoul to voice alarm at damage done (more…)
Who is Im Jong-Seok? Former pro-Pyongyang activist runs ‘Blue House’ in Seoul
Geostrategy-Direct A pro-North Korea activist who was once imprisoned for his role in sending a South Korean student on an unauthorized visit to the North is now playing a (more…)
Trump was briefed by the CIA Nov. 17 on what was leaked to the world one day earlier
Geostrategy-Direct The CIA’s assessment that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman authorized the murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi was leaked to the anti-Trump Washington Post, which published the (more…)
Mattis shoots down Woodward ‘fiction’; Embraces ‘messy’ D.C. fights
Geostrategy-Direct U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said that, despite reports to the contrary, he has no plans to step down and will continue to embrace “inherently messy” policy-making that (more…)
World overlooks Erdogan’s ruthless advance amid Khashoggi uproar
Geostrategy-Direct Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is milking the scandal surrounding the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi to “advance both his Islamist agenda and his Ottoman imperialistic aspirations,” an (more…)
Rumors swirl about MBS’s ‘dark side’ after 2nd Saudi crisis this year
Geostrategy-Direct During his precipitous rise toward the Saudi throne, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been hailed as a reformer and out-of-the-box thinker who suddenly became a major player (more…)