Geostrategy-Direct The Trump administration took two significant steps on Aug. 7 that dramatically increased the tensions in the already tense relationship between Washington and Beijing. First, under orders from (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Both chambers of the U.S. Congress reached an agreement on a comprehensive mammoth $717 billion defense bill on July 23 and the overwhelmingly bipartisan legislation passed in the (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Current and former intelligence officials said recently that decades of U.S. intel assessments of China are no longer valid. Meanwhile, a recent study by the Rand Corp. found (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The only free social media account not yet being censored by the Chinese government is the U.S. Embassy’s Twitter-like Weibo account registered in Beijing. The service has a (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Chinese supreme leader Xi Jinping is directing “political warfare operations against the United States and its allies and partners,” according a think tank study. And, with Xi’s centralization (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct An influential Chinese blogger published an article online that made a major geostrategic splash and severely rattled both Moscow and Beijing. On June 11, a well-known Chinese blogger (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis insisted on a “rules based order” in the South China Sea as Chinese supreme leader Xi Jinping vowed not to “give up even (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The U.S. Department of Defense told Congress that it is inspecting Pentagon-funded projects at American universities that are working with Chinese companies. The research partnerships between Chinese companies (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The largest U.S. diplomatic compound in all of Asia opened last week in a country with whom Washington does not even have an official diplomatic relationship. On June (more…)
