Special to CosmicTribune.com, May 8, 2025 By John J. Metzler, May 7, 2025 A long smoldering fuse to wider conflict has reignited in the wake of a terrible terrorist attack killing 27 tourists in the mountainous Pahalgam region in disputed Kashmir. The Indian civilians were apparently targeted because of their Hindu religion. Since the unprovoked […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, May 7, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Thirty years ago in early 1995, Chinese paramilitary naval forces began a crucial phase in the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) objective to impose its control over the South China Sea, clearing the way to secure global hegemony and also, hegemony in space. In those early […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, May 1, 2025 [Facebook post by Miles Yu, a top White House adviser on China during the first Trump Administration. Yu a former contributing editor for Geostrategy-Direct.com, is Senior Fellow and director of China Center at Hudson Institute.] The myth of sagacious Chinese leadership is laughable when confronted with reality. Xi Jinping […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, April 30, 2025 By Robert Morton, New York Tribune, June 14, 1978 [Fifty years ago, on April 30, 1975, North Vietnamese military units overwhelmed Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, forcibly ending the war. Three years later, WorldTribune.com‘s editor, then a correspondent, responded when Japan’s Foreign Press Center announced that a ferry […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, April 20, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher April 24 was an active day for the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC); It successfully launched its 20th Shenzhou manned space capsule mission atop its 3.35-meter diameter Long March-3F space launch vehicle (SLV). New information that surfaced the same day affirmed that its […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, April 23, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Without having to respond to a free press or an inquisitive legislature, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is free to define government transparency as it pleases, usually minimally in order to deny critical insights to adversaries looking to defend themselves from CCP aggression. This is […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, April 17, 2025 FPI / April 16, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct The new chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff has warned that America’s military in its current state is not able to deter China and other adversarial states. Gen. Dan Caine, who was sworn in as chairman on April 14, called for […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, April 16, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher In December 2017, President Donald Trump revived the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) manned mission to the Moon after it had been cancelled by President Barack Obama in 2010. Then, in his Jan. 20, 2025 inauguration speech, Trump lifted NASA’s goals higher by declaring, […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, April 8, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct The Wuhan Institute of Virology unleashed Covid on the world. The Wuhan Institute of Virology is still in business. And so is communist China’s intent to kill with diseases, an analyst said. “For at least five weeks in December 2019 and January 2020, China tried to deceive the […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, April 9, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher President Donald Trump’s first term establishment of the U.S. Space Force in December 2019 was a long-delayed response to China’s creation of a dual-use manned and unmanned military space capability. But a new Space Force Doctrine Document issued on April 4 now outlines the justification […]