Geostrategy-Direct The Pentagon’s annual report on the Chinese military reverses decades of U.S. intelligence reporting that said Beijing had no ambitions of projecting military power beyond preparing for a (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Russia’s President has a new BFF [best friend forever], Prime Minster Narendra Modi of India who arrived in St. Petersburg on May 31 as Russia’s “Most Distinguished Guest” (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Ignoring China’s warnings, a U.S. Navy warship sailed within 12 nautical miles of a Chinese artificial island in the South China Sea, U.S. officials said on May 24. (more…)
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…)
