Special to CosmicTribune.com, March 19, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rolls out five-year plans that present national objectives, sometimes vague and much of it classified; The latest is CCP’s 15th Five Year Plan (FYP, 2026-2030) that has emerged from the annual “Two Sessions” (National People’s Political Consultative Conference and National […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, March 17, 2026 In 2023, during the Biden era, China’s Xi Jinping openly envisioned a future where, along with Russia’s Vladimir Putin and their allies North Korea and Iran, they would dominate the world with help from clients in Venezuela and Cuba. They were “at the height of their power projection,” wrote […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, March 12, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On April 15, 2010, President Barak Obama traveled to Kennedy Space Center to announce his cancellation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Constellation Moon program that was started in January 2004 by his predecessor, George W. Bush. In his speech Obama stated: “We’re […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, March 5, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Administrator Jared Isaacman’s Feb. 27 press conference explaining adjustments in President Trump’s Artemis Moon program gave no hint of the war with Iran that started the next day, but in the struggle for global domination being waged by China […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, March 3, 2026 By John J. Metzler, March 2, 2026 Darkness at Noon has shrouded Iran for nearly half a century. The Islamic Republic of Iran has tried, and somewhat successfully, to turn back the clock in the once secular and prosperous nation. It has since ruined the economy, disenfranchised women, supported […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, February 25, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher To expand its strategic military reach on Earth and in space, China seeks to export space related infrastructure to advance bi-lateral space relationships, but at the same time seeks military benefits from its “commercial” space sector’s activities. Africa has been especially targeted by China for […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, February 21, 2026 Alysa Liu won the gold in the women’s free skate final on Feb. 19, 2026, officially ending a what a Fox News report termed a “20-year medal drought for American women in the event and a 24-year drought for gold.” It was also a major comeback story for Liu, […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, February 19, 2026 In Communist China, 2026 would normally have been the Year of the Horse. But, in the eyes of state media, this will not be a normal year for Xi Jin Ping and the nation currently coralled by his regime. China has declared “the Year of the Fire Horse.” Why? […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, February 19, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Feb. 11, 2026 China began its push to the Moon, testing an early version of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) Long March-10 space launch vehicle (SLV) that is expected to take Chinese astronauts to the Moon in 2029 or 2030. This […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, February 15, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct Gen. Zhang Youxia was purged from his lofty position on China’s Central Military Commission (CMC) because he disagreed with Communist Party chief Xi Jinping on the buildup of the nation’s armed forces by 2027, the deadline Xi set for the military to be ready to use force to […]
