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…)
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…)
