Special to CosmicTribune.com, May 28, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China’s first asteroid sample return mission on May 29, 2024, is set to begin a much larger program of asteroid exploration-exploitation to assist military-space ambitions. The program would also assist longer range Chinese ambitions to create outposts into the Solar System. On May 29, from […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, May 21, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Chinese Propaganda Axiom: Always accuse your enemy of the offensive behavior or even crimes that you are committing while refusing to talk/negotiate with your enemy. In 2006 the United States accused China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of testing ground-based laser weapons against U.S. satellites, for […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, May 13, 2025 Soon after landing and being given the purple carpet treatment by his Saudi Arabia hosts, President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a massive Saudi investment deal, warned Iran to “make peace or else,” and said he would be lifting all sanctions on Syria. In a statement following a signing […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, May 14, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher The United States faces major technical and political challenges in its race with China and Russia to create sustainable manned bases on the Moon. However, it is also assuring that this is not just a geostrategic competition — as important as it is that the […]
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 […]
