Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher For decades China has rebuffed and rejected American and other Western appeals that it begin even the simplest of dialogues intended to simply increase transparency (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China is planning a new space-based continuous Earth observation satellite network placed in geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO) or hovering over one section of the Earth (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher While flying 380 miles west of Guam on Feb. 17, a Chinese Type 052D destroyer fired a laser at a U.S. Navy Boeing P-8A Poseidon (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China is following the Russian lead in developing new intercontinental range capable missiles armed with very difficult to intercept hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV) warheads. In (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Jan. 17, China’s Xinhua reported that the Chinese Communist Party’s major front organization, the annual National People’s Consultative Congress (NPCC), would decide as early (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China’s use of Xian Aircraft Corporation H-6K bombers to intimidate Taiwan on two consecutive days, Feb. 9 and 10, puts focus on China’s development of (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Despite reports of the China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) having been relatively absent from the Chinese government’s response to the spreading Wuhan coronavirus, this outbreak (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Three times so far in 2020 the People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) has conducted offensive aerial blockade exercises against Taiwan: the first on Jan, (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Since Jan. 23 Chinese government authorities have imposed a broad “lockdown,” largely confining the 11 million citizens of the city of Wuhan to their homes (more…)
