China watcher: ‘Regime change’ is only strategic response to CCP existential threat

China watcher: ‘Regime change’ is only strategic response to CCP existential threat

Special to CosmicTribune.com, June 26, 2025 Is “regime change” unacceptable terminology? It “has been demonized in popular discourse, slandered as reckless adventurism or imperialist hubris,” wrote  Miles Yu, director of the China Center at the Hudson Institute. However, “when America confronts autocratic regimes that threaten the very fabric of its national existence, regime change is a […]

Iran’s overlooked role: Mideast proxy of the Chinese Communist Party

Iran’s overlooked role: Mideast proxy of the Chinese Communist Party

Special to CosmicTribune.com, June 19, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct, June 18, 2025 By Richard Fisher Israel’s “Rising Lion” strike campaign that began on the night of June 12, bombing hundreds of nuclear related and military targets in Iran, and then special operations that decapitated the leadership of the most militant Iranian Revolutionary Guards, was not just a […]

China’s high priority cognitive warfare shifts focus from kinetic to human brain

China’s high priority cognitive warfare shifts focus from kinetic to human brain

Special to CosmicTribune.com, June 12, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct People’s Liberation Army (PLA) researchers’ approach to cognitive warfare is in tune with ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu’s belief that subduing the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. They are developing advanced warfare capabilities that combine high-technology hardware with biotechnology research focused on the human […]

SpaceX, and therefore Elon Musk, are key to U.S. space success

SpaceX, and therefore Elon Musk, are key to U.S. space success

Special to CosmicTribune.com, June 11, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher As the colorful political alliance of President Donald Trump and the world’s wealthiest man Elon Musk was historic in its scope and had a clear impact on the early space policy of Trump’s second term, their first week of June 2025 titanic political bust-up must […]

China claims extensive ‘private’ sector response to SpaceX

China claims extensive ‘private’ sector response to SpaceX

Special to CosmicTribune.com, June 4, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher While advanced Americans space companies like Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin may now be leading the world in the development of advanced reusable heavy-lift space launch vehicles (SLVs), China is investing heavily in the development of similar reusable heavy lift SLVs, meaning […]

China launches asteroid exploration-exploitation program with Tianwen-2 mission

China launches asteroid exploration-exploitation program with Tianwen-2 mission

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 […]

PLA’s combat-focused space program charges U.S. threatening ‘space security’

PLA’s combat-focused space program charges U.S. threatening ‘space security’

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 […]

Trump Mideast visit flipped script: Emphasis on autonomy, sovereignty, commerce

Trump Mideast visit flipped script: Emphasis on autonomy, sovereignty, commerce

Special to CosmicTribune.com, May 20, 2025 By John J. Metzler, May 21, 2025 With the staging and showmanship of a Cecil B. De Mille saga, President Donald Trump’s State visit to three Arabian Kingdoms was uniquely paired with pomp and joint business incentives which focused in transforming the narrative from conflict to commerce and cooperation. […]

‘Birth of a modern Middle East has been brought by … the people that have lived here all their lives’

‘Birth of a modern Middle East has been brought by … the people that have lived here all their lives’

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 […]

Seattle firm has long-term business plan for Lunar profits

Seattle firm has long-term business plan for Lunar profits

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 […]

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