Geostrategy-Direct South Korea’s President Moon Jae-In has been extraordinarily responsive to North Korea’s charm offense and has agreed without any condition to virtually all of North Korean dictator Kim (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The Taiwanese government announced last week its intention to cancel 176 flights during the upcoming Chinese New Year travel season. These flights are operated by China’s Eastern Airlines (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The Pentagon announced that Secretary of Defense James Mattis would attend a key multinational conference on North Korea. The meeting started on Jan. 15 in Canada for foreign (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct At least two North Korean defectors drowned when a small boat capsized on the Mekong river near the Laos-Thailand border. The incident took place earlier last week. Survivors (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The Chinese government made a surprise announcement on Jan. 4 that a new northbound civil aviation route closely paralleling the Taiwan Strait median line will start operation. The (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct At least 4 North Korean defectors have been found to have been exposed to nuclear radioactive material, according to South Korean Unification Ministry officials who made such announcement (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Last week, the U.S. Treasury Department published satellite photos of Hong Kong registered, Chinese-owned oil tanker illegally selling refined oil to a North Korean tanker on the high (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct On Dec. 11, China led an Axis of Three — China, Russia and Bolivia — in an attempt to stop the UN Security Council from advancing an annual (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct President Moon Jae-In made a 4-day state visit to China in hopes of repairing fractured bilateral ties over the THAAD crisis, but he was snubbed by China’s leaders (more…)