Geostrategy-Direct Widespread anger over Covid lockdowns in China, including the financial hub Shanghai, has fueled rumors circulating on the mainland and overseas that supreme leader Xi Jinping, who only (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On May 5, China’s People Liberation Army Daily (PLAD), which runs the website China Military Online, published a detailed attack on Elon Musk’s growing Starlink (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Dossier: CCP Espionage Threat FBI counterspies are opening a new Chinese counterintelligence investigation on average every 12 hours, FBI Director Christopher Wray said. “There’s well north of 2,000 (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On April 19, the Taiwanese publications Liberty Times and Taipei Times reported the comments of an “anonymous” Taiwanese official who noted that to divert rising (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher The sinking of the cruiser Moskva by Ukrainian anti-ship missiles indicates that People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) ships that could blockade or help to invade (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China has undertaken its first aerial power projection demonstration into Europe, using six of its largest indigenous Peoples Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) military transport (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China is making progress in fielding laser combat weapons and a laser weapon that it sold to Saudi Arabia may have conducted the first ever (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Russia claimed it used a hypersonic missile in a bomb strike against Ukraine. If confirmed, it would be the first ever operational use of a hypersonic missile during (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher A People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) Chengdu Aircraft Corporation (CAC) J-20 5th generation fighter has had an “encounter” with the United States Lockheed Martin (more…)