Geostrategy-Direct Because of the newly signed 2017 National Defense Authorization Act [NDAA], the U.S. government will dispatch U.S. Marines to guard the American Institute in Taiwan, the de facto (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct China’s Supreme Leader Xi Jinping has ordered a drastic reduction in the speed and volume of buying influence in foreign countries due to China’s economic slowdown and the (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The Trump administration rolled out the red carpet and gave Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe an extravagant welcome and enthusiastic embrace. The primary message was to China: America’s (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct North Korea dramatically increased its export of mineral materials to China in 2016, clearly pointing to China’s collusion with Pyongyang in violation of UN sanctions resolutions against North (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct James Mattis chose Seoul and Tokyo as his first ever overseas visits days after he was sworn in as the new U.S. Secretary of Defense. He arrived in (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Xiao Jianhua, a 46-year-old multi-billionaire was kidnapped by Chinese plainclothes secret agents at Hong Kong’s Four Season Hotel on Jan. 17 and disappeared into the communist country nearby (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct China’s government-controlled Internet and official online media outlets are fuming over throngs of Chinese tourists who are said to have “betrayed” their motherland by pouring into Japan for (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct In her first interview with the media after her presidential powers were stripped away by an impeachment procedure, South Korea’s President Park Geun-Hye warned on Jan. 25 of (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct To prevent a surprise attack by the Chinese communist government, Taiwan’s military went on high alert on the eve of the Chinese New Year which fell on Saturday, (more…)