Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher For the first time since 2011, two Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) Shenyang J-11 fighters crossed the Mid-Line of the Taiwan Strait near (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct India’s ambition to achieve a level of space power at least as varied as the superpowers was signaled by its successful March 27 test of a direct-ascent anti-satellite (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Japan is adding to its ongoing preparations to repel a Chinese attack to take over its Ryukyu island chain. On March 23 the Sankei Shimbun (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct A wider contest for geopolitical influence in Southeast Asia between China and India is being played out in competition for Malaysia’s requirement for up to 36 lightweight jet (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China has responded to a March 17 Reuters report that credited direct intervention by Trump administration officials in averting a threatened exchange of missile strikes (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher The Trump administration has decided to resume major arms sales to Taiwan, breaking with trend of the Obama and Bush administrations. Previously the United Sates (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On March 14 the Chinese website “Shipoe.com” published a tender for an experimental nuclear powered surface ship that could lead to nuclear powered surface combatants (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China’s military spending for 2019 will increase by 7.5 percent to about $177.61 billion, as revealed on March 3, 2019 by an official at Chinese (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher With the imminent formal demise of the 1987 Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty due to Russian cheating, the U.S. is moving to rebuild its (more…)
