FPI / January 16, 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 […]
FPI / January 9, 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 how […]
FPI / January 2, 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 report, […]
FPI / December 21, 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 Chinese […]
FPI / December 12, 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 already […]
FPI / 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 task […]
FPI / November 28, 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 of […]
FPI / November 21, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Nov. 13, 2025, the first U.S. billionaire to found a space launch and service company — Jeff Bezos and his Blue Origin Company (founded in 2000) — became the second company in history to achieve the first-stage recovery of its large New Glenn space launch […]
FPI / November 14, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Nov. 4, 2025 began a heady day in space for the six Chinese astronauts aboard the Tiangong Space Station, having consumed the first ever “air fried” meal in space of chicken wings. This was followed by the usual propaganda photos of Shenzhou-20 crew (Commander Chen Dong; […]
FPI / November 7, 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 web […]
