Geostrategy-Direct China’s first domestically-built aircraft carrier was spotted sailing through the Taiwan Strait into the South China Sea. The Type-001A carrier was reportedly carrying seven Shenyang J-15 Flying Shark (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct U.S. companies have been banned by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from using federal funds to purchase equipment from Chinese telecom giants Huawei and ZTE. The FCC announced (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct An annual report to Congress by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission said that Beijing’s anti-corruption drive has largely failed, leaving supreme leader Xi Jinping and other (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher According to Chinese sources the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) is producing almost twice as many warships as is the United States. This data bolsters (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Dossier: Impeachment In the U.S. Congress, the House Intelligence Committee is so fixated on the impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump that it is likely missing the real (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un said his father, Kim Jong-Il, told him never to give up the North’s nuclear weapons. A new book, however, said the younger Kim (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct China’s massive display of firepower at the Oct. 1 military parade marking the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party was in part showing off its (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Oct. 1, North Korea for the first time tested, successfully, its new Pukuksong-3 solid-fueled submarine launched ballistic missile (SLBM). According to Japanese Defense Minister (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Dossier: Chinese Intelligence Former U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency officer Ron Rockwell Hansen was sentenced last month to 10 years in prison for attempting to pass U.S. defense information (more…)
