Geostrategy-Direct With U.S. President Donald Trump’s surprise acceptance to meet with North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un in late May, the dynamism in Northeast Asia has changed dramatically, with Kim’s meeting (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct At least 7 North Korean defectors were hunted down and arrested by Chinese security forces on March 25, the day before North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un’s surprise visit (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The day North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un paid a surprise visit to Beijing, the South Korean government conducted a large ceremony at the Incheon International Airport to return (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Last week’s visit to Taiwan by the highest-ranking American official since the Richard Nixon presidency has China’s communist government infuriated, and the response from Beijing is equally explosive (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct On March 23, a U.S. Navy warship conducted a Freedom of Navigation operation [FONOP] and sailed within 12 nautical miles of the Chinese occupied Mischief Reef in the (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct On March 16, President Donald Trump signed into law the Taiwan Travel Act which had been passed unanimously by both chambers of the U.S. Congress in an extremely (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct As the U.S. warms up its relationship with Taiwan, China shows off its military muscle by conducting massive long-range military drills aiming at “overseas” operations. The drill, which (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct China’s Internet exploded with negative comments against Supreme Leader Xi Jinping’s cancellation of presidential term limits allowing him to reign indefinitely as China’s dictator for life. The sudden (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Unlike at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony held on Feb. 9, the North and South Korean Paralympics teams bitterly split over a political issue and decided (more…)