Geostrategy-Direct During negotiations in Phase 1 of the U.S.-China trade deal, U.S. President Donald Trump refused China’s request for the U.S. to drop its criminal prosecution of a well-connected (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Jan. 11, Taiwan held its 15th presidential election that saw incumbent President Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party win re-election, increasing her vote (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China has used disinformation to conceal its role in promoting conflict with Iran in the wake of the spike in Persian Gulf and even global (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The Trump administration expelled two Chinese intelligence officers over the objections of some in the CIA, a report said. Two Chinese intelligence officers who were caught illegally trying (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct As it continually works to convince 1.386 billion sujects that its socialist governing system is effective, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is more concerned it might lose the (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct A Chinese intelligence official who defected to Australia has revealed a major influence campaign by communist China aimed at swaying the upcoming presidential election in Taiwan, and aggressive (more…)
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 By Richard Fisher For the first time in over a decade, and perhaps since 1979, the United States sent a sitting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense to Taiwan (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…)
