Geostrategy-Direct On the surface, all seems rosy in the China-Russia bilateral relationship. However, an informal episode at last week’s “One Belt, One Road International Summit” hosted in Beijing tells (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct China has lodged a series of complaints with Russia over Moscow’s latest big-item weapons sales to Vietnam in an apparent effort to thwart China’s military threat in the (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The newly-elected left-leaning leader of South Korea assured both U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan that he plans to continue and strengthen the (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The Philippine navy has started deliveries of construction materials and more troops to the island of Pagasa which is adamantly claimed by China. Lt. Gen. Raul de Rosario, (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The Japanese navy’s warships have joined U.S. naval vessels in joint operations near the waters of Japan and the Korean Peninsula as confirmed by the photographs officially released (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Over 300,000 angry Russians have signed two urgent petitions demanding the Russian government stop a Chinese water-bottling company from extracting fresh water from Lake Baikal for profit. The (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct China is punishing South Korea with a vengeance for Seoul’s decision to deploy the U.S.-operated THAAD missile defense system. As a result, South Korea is suffering unprecedented economic (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct On April 27, Taiwan’s president dropped another bombshell by declaring to the press that she might call and talk to U.S. President Donald Trump again. To add insult (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct In a dramatic about-face, President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines has ordered the Philippine military to occupy several islands in the Spratly island chain in the South China (more…)