Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com On July 1, the 93rd anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, the Central Committee of the CCP made a shocking announcement: Gen. Xu Caihou has been expelled from the Party and referred to a military tribunal for trial on various unspecified “economic” crimes. The news is a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com The hurriedly-arranged state visit to Seoul by China’s supreme leader Xi Jinping, scheduled to take place July 3 to July 4, indicates that unexpected, even seemingly insurmountable disagreements between the two countries, have surfaced to require a direct intervention from Beijing’s top leader. In the last several years, South Korea […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com The second of the 6 state-of-the-art Varshavyanka-class submarines designed and built specifically for buttressing Russia’s Black Sea Fleet was launched on June 26. The event marks another significant step in establishing Russia’s dominance in the region, after its flagrant annexation in March of Crimea where the Black Sea Fleet is […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com India’s new Prime Minister made his first escape from the New Delhi government bureaucracy with a June 14 flight to the deck of India’s largest naval vessel, the INS Vikramaditya. Prime Minister Narendra Modi presided over the official induction of the “ultra-modern” aircraft carrier, anchored off the coast of Goa. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com On June 3, a small ceremony closed to the public marked the end of a 12-year-long major operation crucial to the U.S.-led military efforts in Afghanistan. The Manas Air Force Base, called Transit Center by the locals and located outside the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek, was finally shut down for […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Russia announced June 2 that the Kremlin had decided to lift the embargo on weapons sales to Pakistan. Moscow also said it was ready to proceed with a Mi-35 attack helicopters deal with Islamabad. This news will tip the delicate geopolitical balance in South Asia. For decades, India, the world’s […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com On May 26, one historic moment was accompanied by another. Yes, India’s newly elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi was sworn in as the new leader of the world’s largest democracy. But the most significant guest of honor witnessing the event was Nawaz Sharif, Prime Minister of bitter, long […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Russia’s gigantic 5.8-ton Proton-M rocket carrying an expensive Ekspress-AM4R satellite crashed 9 minutes after it was launched on May 15 from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome. It was only 40 seconds short of reaching the designated orbit. The Proton rocket is one of the world’s largest launch vehicles and it […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com The government plane for Russia’s Deputy Premier Dmitry Rogozin was denied entry through the air space of Ukraine and Romania last week. Rogozin was on the sanction list of the United States and the European Union for his role in Moscow’s recent annexation of Crimea and territorial aggression […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com A senior Russian official has confirmed that Moscow plans an ambitious network of global data-collection stations in 36 countries in sync with its Global Navigation Satellite System or GLONASS. Sergei Ivanov, Vladimir Putin’s Presidential Administrative Chief made the plan public on April 23 in Moscow. “We will continue […]