Geostrategy-Direct Dossier: China’s Disputed Island Bases Despite a pledge by supreme leader Xi Jinping not to militarize South China Sea islands, China has stepped up military activity at its (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On July 5 Japanese Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso suggested that Japan might have to use military force to defend Taiwan. He said, “If a (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The U.S. Space Force is holding back details of space lasers and other directed energy-weapons that could soon be in the U.S. arsenal, but satellite-killing lasers could be (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Ebrahim Raisi, a hard-liner known to Iranians as an “executioner and imprisoner,” is set to take office as the Islamic Republic’s next president in August. Raisi, who wears (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct One day after the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise, eleven suspects in the killing broke into the Taiwan Embassy in Port-au-Prince, according to two Republican members of (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The Kim Jong-Un regime is directing North Koreans to open savings accounts in state banks and add specified amounts to them on a monthly basis. North Korea’s residents (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Demonstrating China’s commitment to developing reusable space launch vehicles (SLVs), two Chinese companies have recently completed tests that advance their development of reusable SLVs. The (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher It has been a long while since the biannual Moscow Airshow at Zhukovsky airfield outside Moscow has grabbed global attention. But this week’s show did (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Amid ongoing tensions between the U.S. military and Iran, a U.S. drone attack targeted a truck belonging to the Iran-backed Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada militia on July 18. Iraqi (more…)