Trump may have played Russia card on China at Putin Summit
Geostrategy-Direct In four hours of meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin on July 16, U.S. President Donald Trump may have attempted to reset relations with its old Cold War (more…)
Blog post on inferior China-Russia military technology shakes both regimes
Geostrategy-Direct An influential Chinese blogger published an article online that made a major geostrategic splash and severely rattled both Moscow and Beijing. On June 11, a well-known Chinese blogger (more…)
Pompeo significantly toughens U.S. State Department’s stance on China
Geostrategy-Direct The newly-minted Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is taking the U.S. State Department’s usually dovish and excessively conciliatory stance on China in a different direction, only weeks after (more…)
Xi Jinping promotes China-led ‘community of destiny’ to displace Trump world order
Geostrategy-Direct In aspiring to lead the so-called “community of destiny for mankind,” Chinese supreme leader Xi Jinping has advised other countries to look to China to show them the (more…)
On same day as summit U.S. rattles China, dedicates massive new Taipei compound
Geostrategy-Direct The largest U.S. diplomatic compound in all of Asia opened last week in a country with whom Washington does not even have an official diplomatic relationship. On June (more…)
Little is known about President Trump’s 1-on-1 meeting with Kim
Geostrategy-Direct U.S. President Donald Trump emerged from five hours of talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un on June 12, saying that for North Korea’s people “to realize their (more…)
Trump has list of Chinese bank executives who continued doing business with N. Korea
Geostrategy-Direct A long list of Chinese top bank executives to be sanctioned has been prepared and presented to U.S. President Donald Trump and is expected to be announced after (more…)
Report: N. Korea plans Pyongyang-type controls for mountainous province
Geostrategy-Direct A North Korean province on the border with China is set to be used by the Pyongyang government as a strategic region for the military which could conceivably (more…)
Congress told U.S. has 2-10 years to block China’s all-out push for ‘supremacy’
Geostrategy-Direct Taiwan is the first stop toward global domination which “is the heart of the ‘China Dream,’ ” a panel of specialists told the House Permanent Select Committee on (more…)