Geostrategy-Direct President Donald Trump’s relationship with the U.S. intelligence community has improved under Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who was also Trump’s first CIA director, and national security adviser (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Just days before one of the world’s top quantum scientists, fell to his death, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer had linked Zhang Shoucheng’s Silicon Valley capital firm to (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Dear Subscribers, We will be taking our annual winter holiday leave with the next issue. Geostrategy-Direct.com will return with it January 1, 2019 edition. With warm wishes for (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct North Korea has issued an informal apology to Vietnam for allegedly recruiting one of its citizens to take part in the assassination of Kim Jong-Nam, the half-brother of (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The volley of diplomatic salvos continues between China and Canada with the report that the Canadian government has rejected the Chinese foreign minister’s wife’s visa application. The Chinese (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Poor countries are being enticed by the communist Chinese government to hire Chinese firms to build expensive infrastructure projects. When the countries fail to meet their payment obligations (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct A contingent of American congressional Democrats was among those on hand for this year’s Doha Forum in Qatar, a gathering that has been criticized for giving the Iranian (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Turkish President Recep Tayyp Erdogan has portrayed himself as a champion of human rights for his role in bringing to light the murder of Saudi dissident and journalist (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct After months of investigating, the Japanese government announced on Dec. 10 a comprehensive ban of any government purchase of products by China’s top two electronics giants Huawei and (more…)