Geostrategy-Direct For the first time in a decade, the Australian government has issued a comprehensive Foreign Policy White Paper detailing the Pacific nation’s current and future foreign policies. Countering (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct A key campaign pledge of President Donald Trump is to demand more payments from allies around the world for the costs of stationing U.S. troops in various allied (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Zimbabwe’s long-time dictator Robert Mugabe was overthrown by his own defense chief who had close ties with Beijing’s leadership. Just a few days before he staged the coup, (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Due to China’s opposition, Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen was unable to attend the 2017 Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation [APEC] summit in Hanoi, Vietnam on Nov. 10-11. However President (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Taiwan’s defense officials are furious with a reporter from a U.S.-based radio station for asking a seemingly mundane question that inadvertently touched a most sensitive spot of Taiwan’s (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct A top official at the leading Russian state-own arms exporting conglomerate said on Nov. 2 that Turkey’s purchase of Russia’s top-of-the-line S-400 air defense system was worth over (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct In a display of unity and resolve, Japan dispatched one of the two helicopter Izumo-class carriers to the massive joint naval exercise, over 200 warships strong, near the Korean (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct On Oct. 28, the American government ignored Beijing’s “grave protest” and adamant demand, and allowed President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan to make flight connections in Hawaii and Guam (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The first groups of Chinese tourists to South Korea are now scheduled to travel in early November, the first since March of this year when the Chinese government (more…)
