Geostrategy-Direct China is sinking $60 billion into “vanity” projects in Africa while, at home, millions of people languish in poverty, critics of supreme leader Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct A UN official has reported that more than 1 million Muslim Uighurs are being held in what is in effect a massive internment camp in communist China’s Xinjian (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct “China’s lack of transparency regarding the scope and scale of its nuclear modernization program raises questions regarding its future intent,” the Pentagon said in its annual report to (more…)
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Current and former intelligence officials said recently that decades of U.S. intel assessments of China are no longer valid.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…)
