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 Beijing harshly criticized the deployment of the U.S.-made THAAD missile defense system to South Korea, saying the system poses a threat to deterrence. Such statements by Chinese officials (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 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 It would have been unimaginable only ten years ago that Japan, the world’s most pacifist nation, would be playing a leading role in the Asia/Pacific’s military affairs to (more…)
China’s state media has not obsessed about President Barack Obama’s “legacy” to the degree America’s 44th president has. It has not however missed the opportunity to celebrate the “failure” (more…)
Long considered a bystander, Russia is rushing to exploit the U.S.-China standoff over the disputes of the South China Sea, hoping to become the third way toward a settlement (more…)
China’s advanced J-20 combat fighter aircraft is based on technologies stolen from the U.S. F-22 and F-35 fifth generation fighter planes, Russia’s official TV broadcast Russia Today [RT] reported (more…)
A senior U.S. naval leader has issued the strongest warning yet to China regarding the South China Sea disputes. “We will not allow shared domains to be closed down (more…)
