Geostrategy-Direct The naval vessels of U.S. allies have joined the U.S. Navy’s routine patrol cruises in the South China Sea, causing China to react strongly. The Japanese navy dispatched (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Russian President Vladimir Putin choreographed a three-day red-carpeted extravaganza in Moscow for the visiting Vietnamese supreme leader, Nguyen Phu Trong, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The United States and Japan sent their biggest warships to the South China Sea and conducted the largest joint naval exercise there in or near the waters claimed (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The Japanese Ministry of Defense announced Aug. 31 that the government of Japan would seek a 2.1 percent increase in its 2019 defense budget, the highest ever since (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct A Chinese military aircraft entered the South Korea Air Defense Identification Zone [KADIZ] without prior notice and announcement on Aug. 29 and loitered around for 4 hours, according (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct On Aug. 22, the Chinese communist government-owned China Shipping Industry Corporation [CSIC] announced the drowning deaths of three of its top scientists and engineers during a fierce typhoon. (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The Chinese government-controlled electronics giants Huawei and ZTE are to be banned in Russia, according to an Aug. 20 report by the Russian news organization the Kommersant, citing government (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Lt. Gen. Yang Hui of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army has been arrested by the PLA’s internal security forces for “suspicion of violation of military disciplines,” the Hong (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct When it comes to monitoring and controlling social media and the Internet, no government is as successful as the communist government in Beijing. Now China is lending its (more…)
