Geostrategy-Direct Within days, Japan’s defense minister is reportedly to embark on an important trip to India, to seal a landmark agreement with New Delhi to hold a first-ever military (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct On July 26, Russia announced that it is completing its delivery of the S-400 air defense system to China. But the story is far more agonizing to China (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The Houthi rebels in Yemen announced on July 14 that a Chinese made killer drone operated by the Saudi military had been shot down, marking the first time (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The world’s largest multilateral naval exercise has a nearly certain target: China. The U.S. Navy-hosted biennial drill, codenamed RIMPAC, has for the first time included the navies from (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct China’s state media on June 23 launched a media blitz showcasing the Chinese Rocket Force’s latest missile exercise aimed at destroying Taiwan’s presidential palace and major defense facilities (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Two U.S. Navy’s capital ships sailed through the narrow Taiwan Strait on July 7 sending an unmistakable warning to China. Significantly, the U.S. action also directly challenged the (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Visiting U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on July 7 denied that the Trump administration had any plan or practice to reduce the maximum pressure on North Korea (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The newly-minted Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is taking the U.S. State Department’s usually dovish and excessively conciliatory stance on China in a different direction, only weeks after (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct For more than 7 decades, the U.S. military command in South Korea has called the Yongsan Garrison in the center of the densely populated capital city of Seoul (more…)