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…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher In his Feb. 26, testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Gen. John E. Hyten, commander of the U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM), in the section (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct NORINCO, the major Chinese ground force weapons developer and producer, used the 2019 International Defense Exhibition (IDEX) in Abu Dhabi, from Feb. 17 to 21, to reveal for (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Feb. 23, Japanese Air Self Defense Force (JASDF) fighters scrambled to intercept a People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) Shaanxi Y-9JZ electronic intelligence (ELINT) (more…)
