Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China’s military spending for 2019 will increase by 7.5 percent to about $177.61 billion, as revealed on March 3, 2019 by an official at Chinese (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The United States on March 1 said it would defend the Philippines in the South China Sea from an attack by China, ending a policy in which the (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct An Iranian hardliner, who has been accused of being involved in the execution of political prisoners in the late 1980s, has been chosen to head up the body (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The Trump administration has begun conducting counter-cyber attacks against Chinese intelligence and military targets, a report said. The new U.S. cyber operations may have included the theft of (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The Trump administration warned it will institute limits on intelligence sharing with the German government if Berlin allows Huawei Technologies to build Germany’s next-generation mobile-Internet infrastructure. U.S. Ambassador (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un was not listed among candidate’s for the communist state’s rubber-stamp parliament, according to a March 12 report. While there was some speculation as (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Islamic State (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi survived a coup attempt in January and has responded by executing eight top commanders while ordering the deaths of hundreds of (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct China has arrested an official who oversaw research for the country’s submarine fleet. Beijing charged that Bu Jianjie had illegally obtained Canadian citizenship, Canada’s National Post reported on (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher With the imminent formal demise of the 1987 Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty due to Russian cheating, the U.S. is moving to rebuild its (more…)