Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 31, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct Amid a major purge of top military leaders, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has scaled back military drills this year in what is seen as a campaign to garner greater political loyalty, according to a briefing given to U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. The loyalty “rectification” effort […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 29, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Combat zones where United States and Chinese military forces are regularly “eyeball to eyeball” include the Taiwan Strait, the East China Sea in defense of Japan, the South China Sea in defense of the Philippines, and increasingly in space, where the U.S. and China are […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 22, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct Nine senior military leaders have been purged by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) amid rumors about its direction, leadership and control of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). The firings coincided with the Fourth Plenum of the CCP’s 20th Central Committee in which the party would address a five-year […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 22, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher America is in danger of losing the “second race to the Moon,” a prospect apparently rejected by President Donald Trump, so National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) acting Administrator, and Transportation Department Secretary Sean Duffy, on Oct. 20 injected new competition into the U.S. Moon […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 15, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher During the Cold War there was the perceived “bomber gap” between the United States and the former Soviet Union, followed by a “missile gap.” Decades down the road in the current United States-China Cold War, the U.S. should be planning a response to a looming […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 8, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher What part of America’s “race” with China back to the Moon is most important? • That the U.S. demonstrate strong leadership of the democratic coalition of space faring nations by meeting its 2027 plans to return, beating China ‘s plan to get there before 2030? […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 3, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Since the 1970s China has assisted Pakistan’s nuclear weapon and nuclear missile buildup that could soon include intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) — according to the former Biden Administration that sanctioned involved Pakistani companies in December 2024. A Pakistani ICBM capability makes little sense in relation […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, September 26, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher In 2024 China exported about 1.3 million electric vehicles (EVs) or about 40 percent of the world market for EVs. One major Chinese EV manufacturer, Geely, via its subsidiary Geespace, is populating its GEESATCOM broadband-communication satellite constellation, that in an Aug. 10, 2025 press release […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, September 17, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China and Russia are pushing ahead with complimentary, perhaps competitive global space alliance structures that leverage their respective investments in proto-alliances, like the 2001 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and the 2009 Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa (BRICS) organization. Though it began in 2021 as […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, September 10, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher There is now a race involving government funded programs and universities to reach the asteroid Apophis, a 375-meter diameter asteroid only discovered in 2004 but that will reach a nearest distance of 32,000 kilometers (20,000 miles) from Earth on April 13, 2029. But it is […]
