Geostrategy-Direct “China’s lack of transparency regarding the scope and scale of its nuclear modernization program raises questions regarding its future intent,” the Pentagon said in its annual report to (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The Trump administration took two significant steps on Aug. 7 that dramatically increased the tensions in the already tense relationship between Washington and Beijing. First, under orders from (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Israel’s spy agency was behind the assassination of one of Syria’s top rocket scientists, a Middle Eastern intelligence operative reportedly said. Aziz Asbar, who is believed to have (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The only free social media account not yet being censored by the Chinese government is the U.S. Embassy’s Twitter-like Weibo account registered in Beijing. The service has a (more…)
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…)
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…)
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…)
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…)
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…)
