Special Report: China’s parade sent ‘cognitive warfare’ messages, showcased new weapons

Special Report: China’s parade sent ‘cognitive warfare’ messages, showcased new weapons

by WorldTribune Staff, September 4, 2025 Real World News FPI / September 3, 2025 GeostrategyDirect.com By Richard Fisher On Sept. 3 Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping hosted his fourth major military parade spectacle, this time marking the 80th anniversary of Japan World War Two defeat, for what China calls “Chinese People’s War of […]

SpaceX Starship feels heat from 19 Chinese reusable SLV programs

SpaceX Starship feels heat from 19 Chinese reusable SLV programs

FPI / August 29, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On the evening of Aug. 26, 2025 the tenth test flight for Elon Musk’s massive 5,000 ton SpaceX Starship space launch vehicle (SLV) completed a just-over an hour test flight that achieved its mission agenda, but after two delays, one mechanical on Aug. 24 and one […]

China reveals HQ-29 missile defense system, exposing early U.S. strategic error

China reveals HQ-29 missile defense system, exposing early U.S. strategic error

FPI / August 21, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On the night of Aug. 22-23, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) held another practice run for its massive Sept. 3 military parade commemorating the 80th anniversary of “Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War.” […]

China claims successful test of Long March-10 Moon launcher

China claims successful test of Long March-10 Moon launcher

FPI / August 22, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On its new specially-built launch platform at the Wencheng Satellite Launch Center on Hainan Island, on Aug. 15, 2024 the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) conducted the first successful static test of the first stage of the Long March-10 (LM-10) space launch vehicle (SLV) […]

Moon race: China reveals lander test as U.S. accelerates plans for nuclear power plant

Moon race: China reveals lander test as U.S. accelerates plans for nuclear power plant

FPI / August 15, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher The second race to the Moon, this time between the United States and China, saw another step in China’s favor on Aug. 6, 2025, when a full-scale powered version of China’s manned Moon lander called Lanyue (for Embracing The Moon) reportedly achieved its first powered test. […]

CCP’s August dream: Trump’s attendance at its coercive Sept. 3 military parade

CCP’s August dream: Trump’s attendance at its coercive Sept. 3 military parade

FPI / August 14, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Since the late spring, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its People’s Liberation Army (PLA) have been preparing for its major military coercive exercise on Sept. 3rd marking with its massive military parade the 80th anniversary of “the victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance […]

Amid nuclear threats, Russia signals intent to continue space cooperation with U.S.

Amid nuclear threats, Russia signals intent to continue space cooperation with U.S.

FPI / August 8, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher The roller coaster of United States-Russia relations hit a dangerous curve this past week, making curious Russia’s simultaneous public gesture that it desires continued space cooperation with the Washington. President Donald Trump campaigned promising to seek an early end to Russia’s horrific war against Ukraine an […]

China’s ‘Food Security Law’ paired with apparent attack on U.S. farms called ominous

China’s ‘Food Security Law’ paired with apparent attack on U.S. farms called ominous

FPI / August 7, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping knows that if he is to wage war he must be able to feed the country’s 1.4 billion people. With that in mind, China’s food security law, which went into effect in 2024, aims for “absolute self-sufficiency.” “Xi has been urging the […]

‘Blood Covenant’: Iran’s state media back bounty on President Trump’s head

‘Blood Covenant’: Iran’s state media back bounty on President Trump’s head

FPI / July 16, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct Two death warrants against President Donald Trump issued within Iran, and broadcast on state media have morphed into a “Blood Covenant” in which more than $40 million has reportedly been raised as a bounty on the U.S. president. Iran’s senior religious clerics made it clear that “every cell of […]

Iran was central to China’s Middle East strategy; No more

Iran was central to China’s Middle East strategy; No more

FPI / July 3, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct Iran had been a key cog in the emerging anti-American axis in the Middle East led by China and including Russia. Then Israel quickly dismantled Iran’s warfighting structure via a series of targeted strikes known as Operation Rising Lion. The United States followed by bombing Iran’s nuclear strongholds at […]

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