China’s parade broadcast ‘cognitive warfare’ messages to world, showcased new weapons

China’s parade broadcast ‘cognitive warfare’ messages to world, showcased new weapons

Special to CosmicTribune.com, September 5, 2025 GeostrategyDirect.com By Richard Fisher On Sept. 3 Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping hosted his fourth major military parade spectacle, this time marking the 80th anniversary of Japan World War Two defeat, for what China calls “Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist […]

Russia’s space program pain could be China’s gain

Russia’s space program pain could be China’s gain

Special to CosmicTribune.com, September 3, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Just before his trip to the Far East, it was revealed in the Russian media that Vladimir Putin’s space program was in a financial crisis The Russian dictator went to China to help advance its ambitions for global hegemony, at the Aug. 30-31 Shanghai Cooperation […]

SpaceX Starship feeling the heat from 19 Chinese reusable SLV programs

SpaceX Starship feeling the heat from 19 Chinese reusable SLV programs

Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 27, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On the evening of Aug. 26, 2025 the tenth test flight for Elon Musk’s massive 5,000 ton SpaceX Starship space launch vehicle (SLV) completed a just-over an hour test flight that achieved its mission agenda, but after two delays, one mechanical on Aug. 24 and […]

China claims successful test of Long March-10 Moon launcher

China claims successful test of Long March-10 Moon launcher

Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 20, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On its new specially-built launch platform at the Wencheng Satellite Launch Center on Hainan Island, on Aug. 15, 2024 the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) conducted the first successful static test of the first stage of the Long March-10 (LM-10) space launch vehicle […]

Speakers at pro-North Korea ‘People’s Summit’ in NYC: ‘Death to U.S. imperialism’

Speakers at pro-North Korea ‘People’s Summit’ in NYC: ‘Death to U.S. imperialism’

Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 12, 2025 A recent report documented passionate hate for U.S. Imperialism and Israel from a cult of ‘revolutionary comrades, full of love’ at an actual “People’s Summit for Korea.” Following are selected comments made by attendees at the pro-North Korea event held recently in New York City, according to a report […]

U.S. advances plans for lunar nuclear power plant; China reveals lander test

U.S. advances plans for lunar nuclear power plant; China reveals lander test

Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 13, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher The second race to the Moon, this time between the United States and China, saw another step in China’s favor on Aug. 6, 2025, when a full-scale powered version of China’s manned Moon lander called Lanyue (for Embracing The Moon) reportedly achieved its first powered […]

Despite nuclear threats, Russian state media promote space cooperation with U.S.

Despite nuclear threats, Russian state media promote space cooperation with U.S.

Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 6, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher The roller coaster of United States-Russia relations hit a dangerous curve this past week, making curious Russia’s simultaneous public gesture that it desires continued space cooperation with the Washington. President Donald Trump campaigned promising to seek an early end to Russia’s horrific war against Ukraine […]

The CCP’s obsession with Taiwan: A ‘sacred ideological mission

The CCP’s obsession with Taiwan: A ‘sacred ideological mission

Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 6, 2025 Why does the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regard the conquest of Taiwan as essential to its quest for global dominance? That the regime sees the island nation and democracy as an existential threat is poorly understood outside of the mainland and China-focused think tanks, an analyst wrote. “Although Western […]

Making the most of the International Space Station while it remains

Making the most of the International Space Station while it remains

Special to CosmicTribune.com, July 30, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher While it could still be transferred to and operated by a consortium of “private” companies, it appears that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) plans to end its operation of the International Space Station (ISS) by 2030, and to thereafter begin operations to deorbit […]

50 years after Apollo-Soyuz, the myth of Peace-In-Space endures on Earth

50 years after Apollo-Soyuz, the myth of Peace-In-Space endures on Earth

Special to CosmicTribune.com, July 23, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher The myth that Peace-in-Space can lead to, or even influence the possibility of Peace-on-Earth rests in part on the historically brief but emotionally enduring impact of the first international mission in space, the July 17, 1975 docking of the United States-Soviet Union Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. […]