Geostrategy-Direct The U.S. government reiterated its policy of not recognizing the legitimacy of China’s self-declared Air Defense Identification Zone in East China Sea after the Chinese government issued a (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Several nations are carrying out U.N. resolutions sanctioning North Korea for its illegal nuclear and missile programs. This has led to a series of expulsions of North Korean (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Taiwan has announced a much-augmented budget to beef up its defense systems against an increasingly belligerent Chinese military. The $11.4 billion defense budget for AY2017-8 represents 3 percent (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Japan’s Defense Intelligence Headquarters, the official signals intelligence agency equivalent to America’s National Intelligence Agency, successfully launched a cutting-edge military satellite from the Kagoshima space center on March (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct President Donald Trump views North Korea as America’s number one security threat and the pressure to take preemptive military strike against Pyongyang is becoming higher than at any (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Starting March 1, more than 320,000 military personnel from the United States and South Korea have been conducting the largest military exercise in recent memory. The drill, which (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct A large portion of China’s huge military budget will be allotted to the Chinese navy for a massive and rapid buildup in order to counter the American navy’s (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct China has turned on South Korea, treating it as its new and bitter enemy only a year after Beijing and Seoul seemed the best of friends. The trigger (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct China and North Korea colluded to deceive the world into presuming that Beijing is implementing UN sanctions against the DPRK. The charade included Pyongyang feigning outrage at Beijing (more…)
