BREAKING . . . [Editor’s Note: We have added ‘Breaking‘ as a new feature because . . . Drudge has gone away.] TAIPEI (Reuters) – Twenty Chinese military aircraft entered Taiwan’s air defence identification zone on Friday, in the largest incursion yet reported by the island’s defence ministry and marking a dramatic escalation of tension […]
FPI / March 12, 2021 Geostrategy-Direct.com By Richard Fisher Pity the poor Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) after its stunning loss of face in the “Battle of the Taiwan Pineapple.” The department must now carry the burden of the backlash against the CCP’s latest failed political-economic warfare campaign. The CCP has adopted […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 3, 2021 The day Chinese supreme leader Xi Jinping decides the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) can win a war to conquer Taiwan, “that is when his war will begin,” a China analyst noted. “To ensure that Xi never gains that confidence it is now necessary for the United States to shed […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 29, 2020 Over the last five years, Chinese bombers have ventured deep into the South China Sea and proven their ability to surround Taiwan. Over the next few years, communist China plans to build up to 9 to 12 new “brigades” of bombers, each with 32 aircraft. It is part of […]
FPI / October 21, 2020 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Chinese statecraft, especially under the era of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) dictatorship, has featured a pattern of fighting “wars of decision,” or intentional offensive conflicts that China can win, timed to reshape a new regional or global political environment favorable to the CCP. The most […]
FPI / October 15, 2020 Geostrategy-Direct.com By Richard Fisher While the actual date of the amphibious exercises has not been revealed, Chinese state media on the weekend of Oct. 10 offered much coverage of the exercises for television and print propaganda. Citing Taiwanese press reports on Oct. 11, the Hong Kong News website reported the […]
FPI / October 1, 2020 Geostrategy-Direct.com By Richard Fisher On Sept. 27, Bill Gertz, writing for The Washington Times, reported on his interview with United States National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien, who used the occasion to issue the highest-level U.S. warning of potential Chinese aggression against Taiwan. At first O’Brien lamented, “The swift termination of […]
FPI / September 24, 2020 Geostrategy-Direct.com By Richard Fisher As the global death toll from the Chinese Wuhan coronavirus approaches one million people, China wants the world to also know that it is ready to start a war against the 23 million free people of Taiwan. On Sept. 9 and 10, China’s People’s Liberation Army […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 31, 2020 (Remarks by David R. Stilwell, State Department’s Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, to the Heritage Foundation on Aug. 31.) I am very pleased to have the opportunity to talk about Taiwan, one of America’s most reliable partners in the Indo-Pacific, and indeed the world. It […]
FPI / August 26, 2020 Geostrategy-Direct.com By Richard Fisher The People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) invasion strategy for Taiwan relies heavily on the mobilization of large civilian transport ships that would move the bulk of the troops and supporting armor and logistic supplies, to put enough forces on the island democracy to force its surrender or […]