Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China now has the world’s largest navy, is preparing for an invasion of Taiwan that may require over one million troops and is building a (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China could increase its nuclear weapons arsenal by up to four times in this decade according to the commander of United States nuclear forces. This (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Jan. 29, China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) launched its third Type 075 large amphibious assault ship in fifteen months, the first emerging on (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher In a Nov. 16, 2020 article, Ana Swanson of The New York Times used numerous interviews with unnamed sources advising then President-elect Joe Biden to (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher North Korea poses two challenges to the incoming Biden Administration. First, having shown Donald Trump no willingness to reduce or eliminate his nuclear arsenal, in (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Jan. 9 ended the onerous “Contact Guidelines” that had restricted diplomatic contact between Taiwan and U.S. Executive Branch (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China enters 2021 with a continued and perhaps even intensified military intimidation campaign against democratic Taiwan. A Dec. 29, 2020 report in Hong Kong’s pro-Beijing (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Dec. 22, 2020 China and Russia conducted their largest aerial exercise over international waters, sending 19 aircraft over the Sea of Japan, greatly exceeding (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Friday Dec. 18 the United States Navy Burke class destroyer U.S.S. Mustin made the 13th transit of the Taiwan Strait in 2020 by a (more…)