Geostrategy-Direct From late 2010 until the end of 2012, China killed or jailed at least a dozen CIA sources and crippled the agency’s intelligence gathering efforts in China for (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct China has made the THAAD deployment a litmus test for future bilateral relationship with South Korea. The new president in Seoul has however not been straightforward about what (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Chinese President Xi Jinping’s personal and political objected may have been disrupted by his belligerent neighbor in North Korea and a new American president, but his primary focus (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Chinese cyber attacks on South Korea are nothing new, but the number and intensity of attacks have increased after Seoul’s deployment of the U.S.-made THAAD missile-defense system, specialists (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct China’s Supreme Leader Xi Jinping met his match at Mar-a-Lago in West Palm Beach, Florida when the two leaders met for the first time representing their respective countries. (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Chinese President Xi Jinping appears not only to have underestimated U.S. President Donald Trump, but also to have exposed Beijing’s weaknesses for the world to see. Trump’s ordered (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Chinese militia fleets that have been called on to harass U.S. surveillance ships in the South China Sea are tethered to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). “Despite being (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct China continues its pattern of violating U.N. sanction regimes against North Korea by increasing its supply of crude oil, a crucial energy source, to power the North Korean (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Nationalistic opposition in China to South Korea’s deployment of the U.S. THAAD missile system has been ramped up by communist officials as the central government has steadily increased (more…)