Special to CosmicTribune.com, July 19, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher July 18, 2023 Since 2009 China has been Africa’s largest trading partner. All but one of Africa’s 54 states are in the China-led Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) formed in 2000 and over 50 African countries joined the 2019 and 2022 China-led China-Africa Peace and […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, July 12, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Both the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have ambitions to become major players in space. Both are members of the 27-member Artemis Accords, setting out agreed behavior on the Moon, and both have recently sent astronauts on missions aboard the […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, June 28, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Since India its gained independence from Britain’s colonial rule in 1947, American leaders have been trying to convince the leaders of the world’s largest democracy to join in longstanding efforts to advance freedom, or to even combat its dire enemies. But on Earth as in […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, June 21, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China is advancing two architectures it could employ to increase its control of the Moon. ILRSCO First, China is announcing early members of its International Lunar Research Station Cooperation Organization (ILRSCO). It was first announced in April at a conference in Hefei of the China […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, June 13, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On May 30 the State Department issued its Strategic Framework for Space Policy, a first of its kind document intended to guide State Department diplomatic efforts in support of United States space programs. Of special concern is the National Aeronautics and Space Agency’s (NASA) Artemis […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, May 31, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On May 8, Chinese state media reported that China’s “reusable spacecraft” had completed its second orbital mission, this time spending 276 days in space. Xinhua also commented, “The complete success of this test marks an important breakthrough in my country’s research on reusable spacecraft technology, […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, May 2, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher In geosynchronous orbit (GEO) China and the United States are revealing “sharp elbows” or potential combat capabilities that reflect the very high priority both place on war-winning access to low Earth orbit (LEO) and GEO, and just as important, to deny such access to the […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, May 9, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China’s Tiangong space station continues to evolve, raising concerns that China’s dual-use civil/military People’s Liberation Army (PLA) controlled space program is covertly developing military capabilities for its space station. On Dec. 6, 2022, the Chinese publication “Spacecraft Engineering” noted that the Chinese space station could […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, May 2, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China is escalating its effort to bring a New Cold War divide to the moon by creating an organization with members, the International Lunar Research Station Cooperation Organization (ILRSCO), as part of the 2001 China-Russia International Lunar Research Station (ILRS). China’s goal is to trump […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, March 22, 2023 As more agencies finally admit that Covid likely originated in a Wuhan, China laboratory, former President Donald Trump said its time for “China and the corrupt forces who facilitated this colossal suppression of facts” to be held accountable. In a new 2024 campaign video, Trump said the “damage” China […]
