China’s underground Moon base ambitions include lava tubes for habitation

China’s underground Moon base ambitions include lava tubes for habitation

Special to CosmicTribune.com, January 15, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Jan.4,2026, Chinese state media reported that a group of 28 Chinese astronauts had conducted a training program in which smaller groups of astronauts would spend six days and five nights training in underground caves in the Chongqing Municipality in Southwest China. The purpose was […]

New spymaster challenged ‘powerful internal forces’ on China, 2020 election

New spymaster challenged ‘powerful internal forces’ on China, 2020 election

Special to CosmicTribune.com, January 15, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct John Ratcliffe’s contribution to restoring the CIA’s reputation in the Trump era can’t be understated. The agency, once described by President Donald Trump as the “disgraceful’ employer of “sick people” who spread fake news, is back in favor with the White House under an unlikely spymaster. As Director […]

Trump Executive Order requires ‘space superiority’

Trump Executive Order requires ‘space superiority’

Special to CosmicTribune.com, January 7, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher In August 2023 China’s major state-owned space corporation that reliably reflects the vision of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), held a conference in Beijing in which it was revealed that starting in 2020, CASC has been researching […]

2025 China military report highlights space advances

2025 China military report highlights space advances

Special to CosmicTribune.com, January 1, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Dec. 24, 2025, the United States Department of War issued its annual report to Congress on “China Military Power Report” (CMPR), that since 2000 has constituted the most credible description of China’s growing military produced by any government, especially that of China. The 2025 […]

World faces uncertainty in 2026 with one exception: America’s 250th birthday

World faces uncertainty in 2026 with one exception: America’s 250th birthday

Special to CosmicTribune.com, December 30, 2025 By John J. Metzler, December 30, 2025 It’s time to consult the crystal snow globe and try to peer ahead what may be on the horizon for the new year. Without question 2025 has been tumultuous, but the year ahead holds cautious promise to finally solve some political crises […]

Does China launch signal investment in its version of ‘Golden Dome’?

Does China launch signal investment in its version of ‘Golden Dome’?

Special to CosmicTribune.com, December 19, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China’s Dec. 9 launch of its TJS-22, or Tongshin Jishu Shiyan, a designator for a series of Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) missile early warning (EW), signals intelligence (SIGINT) and communication satellites — which could actually be the PLA’s 12th EW satellite — indicates a growing […]

Generals remind Americans: You live in a Pacific nation; Your main ‘enemy is right here’

Generals remind Americans: You live in a Pacific nation; Your main ‘enemy is right here’

Special to CosmicTribune.com, December 15, 2025 Because the U.S. “has skin in the game” with citizens living in Guam and the Northern Marianas, America can be considered an Indo-Pacific nation, retired Army Gen. Charles Flynn said on Thursday. “We can’t forget about this part of the homeland,” Flynn said in an address to the Gold […]

U.S. and China also in race to build space-based AI data centers

U.S. and China also in race to build space-based AI data centers

Special to CosmicTribune.com, December 4, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher As quintillions of Artificial Intelligence (AI) processes expand the realm of the computer “Cloud,” that invisible computer ecosystem requiring burgeoning numbers of real estate, water and energy-demanding “Data Centers,” the next step envisioned is to project Data Centers from this world into outer space, a […]

Starlink’s threat to CCP’s Taiwan obsession and PLA submarine lasers idea

Starlink’s threat to CCP’s Taiwan obsession and PLA submarine lasers idea

Special to CosmicTribune.com, November 27, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China hates the innovative Starlink broadband (Internet) satellite mega-constellation of the SpaceX Corporation because it offers countries and peoples that China could attack and conquer, the means to access the global Internet with its attendant abilities to communicate, access information and to control the “Internet […]