Zhuhai 2021: China reveals two new laser weapons
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China has a slight lead over the United States in the development of usable laser weapons as it revealed two of them for sale at (more…)
China dramatically increases threat level with 149 warplanes near Taiwan
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher This month, in its fourth year of sending regular coercive military deployments against Taiwan, from Oct. 1 to 4 the China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) (more…)
As threat from North Korea grows, U.S. rejects re-deploying tactical nuclear weapons
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher For the last twenty years many South Koreans have watched in quiet frustration as North Korea has serially broken agreements, violated sanctions and proceeded to (more…)
AUKUS 1: A strategic new alliance or just another ‘pivot’?
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Sept. 15, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and American President Joe Biden announced the formation of a new defense (more…)
New big lie: China did not profit from 9-11
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China’s Ministry of Propaganda adores big lies. It repeats them often, year after year, because it understands that ad-nauseum repetition is one of the best (more…)
Will Biden bow to CCP threats over the name of Taiwan’s embassy?
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Since 1949, when the Nationalist government of Generalismo Chiang Kai Shek fled the Mainland to Taiwan, the civil war-victorious Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has viewed (more…)
Increased Chinese incursions results in unprecedented Taiwan-Japan cooperation
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China has continued its military intimidation of Taiwan and Japan even though its military pressures has resulted in unprecedented open political talks between the two (more…)
Afghanistan surrender unleashes an America-China crisis down under
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Australia is now in the midst of its first major Post-Cold War strategic crisis. This is the result of the accumulation of an existential threat (more…)
America tries to save face in Asia with military exercises after Afghan loss
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher American credibility has suffered indeterminable but very likely long-term damage in the wake of the severely botched U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. After being convinced by (more…)