Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On April 12, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) conducted its largest intimidation exercise against Taiwan, launching 25 combat aircraft into the southwestern region of Taiwan’s (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Since 2001, U.S. special operations forces have been trained in culture and language skills needed for dealing with Middle East terrorists. Now they are getting trained to focus (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The United States needs to strengthen its forces to counter China’s rapid military buildup and also must put deterrence forces in place to prevent the communists from moving (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Dossier: China-Iran Strategic Ties Joe Biden’s move to end the Trump administration’s policy of maximum pressure via sanctions on Iran opened the door for China to increase oil (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Kim Jong-Un, who met three times with U.S. President Donald Trump, has thus far shrugged off the Biden administration’s efforts at engagement. Reuters, citing administration officials, said Biden’s (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher With the March 7 announcement that China’s official defense budget for 2021 will increase by 6.8 percent from 2020, or in estimated adjusted terms to (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct A China policy advisor to former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in an interview that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), following the 2003 Sars pandemic, made (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Dossier: China’s biological weapons program Evidence continues to mount that the coronavirus came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). “The world has known for a long time (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has deployed its new YJ-12B supersonic anti-ship missiles on the Taiwan Strait according to an Asian government source. Credited with (more…)