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…)
Geostrategy-Direct Beijing harshly criticized the deployment of the U.S.-made THAAD missile defense system to South Korea, saying the system poses a threat to deterrence. Such statements by Chinese officials (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct An American aircraft carrier strike group began conducting war games in the South China Sea on Feb. 18 in what was seen as the first challenge to China’s (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct China is reaching “near-parity” with the West in military technology, according to a think tank’s annual report on military balance in the world. China is beginning to export (more…)