Special to CosmicTribune.com, January 18, 2026 President Donald Trump on Jan. 17, 2026, escalated his campaign to “acquire” Greenland on behalf of the national security of the United States and its allies. He put on notice Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, The United Kingdom, The Netherlands, and Finland after reports that several NATO nations had […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, December 10, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Dec. 3, 2025, the first of at least 15 Chinese companies developing reusable space launch vehicles (RSLVs) conducted its first RSLV test launch, beginning a future wave of Chinese RSLV testing and boosting the growth of China’s subsidized “private” SLV sector — vice its […]
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 […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, November 5, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Oct. 30, 2025 the world was treated to a split-screen of the United States-China race back to the Moon in two press events: • A China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) press conference and then, released that same day, • An update on its […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 29, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Combat zones where United States and Chinese military forces are regularly “eyeball to eyeball” include the Taiwan Strait, the East China Sea in defense of Japan, the South China Sea in defense of the Philippines, and increasingly in space, where the U.S. and China are […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 3, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Since the 1970s China has assisted Pakistan’s nuclear weapon and nuclear missile buildup that could soon include intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) — according to the former Biden Administration that sanctioned involved Pakistani companies in December 2024. A Pakistani ICBM capability makes little sense in relation […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, September 17, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China and Russia are pushing ahead with complimentary, perhaps competitive global space alliance structures that leverage their respective investments in proto-alliances, like the 2001 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and the 2009 Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa (BRICS) organization. Though it began in 2021 as […]
