China may be the first to deploy a microwave air defense weapon
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China and the United States are in a race to develop microwave weapons to defeat swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). They can also be (more…)
Joint China-Russia naval exercise in Tsugaru Strait targets Japan despite risks
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher In a move to escalate their military intimidation of Japan, for the first time on Oct. 18, five warships from China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy (more…)
Taiwan Defense Minister upgrades ‘urgency’: By 2025 China could be ready to strike
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Oct. 6, Taiwan Minister of National Defense Chiu Kuo-cheng stated, “By 2025, China will bring the cost and attrition to its lowest. It has (more…)
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…)