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Politics

Weight of the world is killing us

March 5, 2021 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

While modern science and medicine offer us more opportunities to live longer and healthier lives, modern lifestyle – our diet (both quality and quantity), lack of exercise, stress and other …

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china3
Politics

Proud to be a scumbag

March 3, 2021 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Lunar New Year is as good a time as any to commend your friends and threaten your enemies, all in the spirit of festive good will no doubt. Wang Xining, …

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Politics

There ain’t no party like a Communist Party

December 15, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

This week’s superleak of a database of nearly 2 million members of Chinese Communist Party, most of them from around Shanghai, many of whom are working at the local offices …

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china6
Politics

Shock: China does not understand freedom of speech

December 2, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

I know it might come as somewhat of a shock for you, so brace yourself, my dear reader: a country without a freedom of speech does not understand the concept …

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managing-decline
Politics

Team Biden: managing America’s decline and the rise of China

November 26, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Meet the new boss in the White House – same as the old (but one) boss – and China, through one of its English-language mouthpieces, “Global Times”, is hoping for a reset back …

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allies
Politics

America’s mythical allies – and the real ones

November 24, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Sam Vinograd, an Obama administration nat sec alumnus – and now, needless to say, a CNN nat sec analyst – is hearing sounds: It's like I can almost hear our …

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Politics

Free Tibet (Labour)

September 24, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Whatever happened to “Free Tibet”? With its heyday probably twenty years ago, it used to be a major cause celebre for artists and activists, with bumper stickers adorning countless cars, including – …

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china4
Politics

China does as China is

September 14, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Call this the Commiebridge Analytica: Tens of thousands of Australians — including celebrities, politicians and journalists — have had their data collected by a company with links to Chinese military …

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d10
Politics

D10

July 20, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

[Apologies for very sporadic blogging recently, but I have been playing a host to a pandemic refugee] God knows there has not been much good news of any sort in …

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demo1
Politics

America is bad for democracy, say allies

June 16, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Dalia Research, the Alliance for Democracies and Rasmussen International have released the results of the Democracy Perception Index, the largest study of its kind, based on interviews with 124,000 people in …

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hong-kong
Politics

Let’s create Hong Kong 2 in Australia

May 29, 2020May 29, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

We could have done it 31 years ago, after the People’s Liberation Army’s tanks liberated thousands of protesters from their lives across Beijing. We could have done it 23 years …

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lowy6
Politics

Losing My Region – Australians and the world cool on China

May 14, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Welcome to the political chaos theory – or, should we say, fact: a bat flapping its wings in China produces a hurricane… pretty much everywhere around the world. It seems …

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amb5
Politics

Fact Check: “Disease ambassadors”?

April 20, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

The worldwide Coronavirus pandemic is predictably generating hundreds of conspiracy theories, rumours, claims and counter-claims about every aspect of the crisis, from the virus’s origin to the actions, or inactions, …

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pro101
Lifestyle

The Daily Chrenk’s Best Proverbs From Around The World, Part 7: The Finale

April 18, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

It’s been a great journey discovering the wise, the weird and the wonderful folk sayings from all parts of the world. You can check the previous six posts at your …

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pro105
Lifestyle

The Daily Chrenk’s Best Proverbs From Around The World, Part 6

April 9, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Distract yourself from COVID 24/7 and enjoy some wisdom of the ages from all corners of the world. Coincidentally, when proverbs and folk sayings were coming into being, life really …

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pro114
Lifestyle

The Daily Chrenk’s Best Proverbs From Around The World, Part 5

March 26, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

With Coronavirus 24/7 and the world turned upside down indefinitely, wherever you are in self-isolation, make yourself some tea, sit down and enjoy the wisdom of the ages from different …

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communovirus
Politics

We need a globalisation insurance

March 6, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

What has the virus wrought? In some ways it is a perfect weapon: it doesn’t kill that many people in a greater scheme of things but it terrorises whole societies …

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Politics

The Great Toilet Paper Panic of 2020 continues…

March 4, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

This afternoon, on the way back from the gym, I popped into my local Coles to get some fruit and veg. Having picked up everything I wanted, curiosity took me …

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Politics

The Great Toilet Paper Panic of 2020

March 2, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Around the world, the shop shelves are emptying fast. In Australia: Australian supermarkets are being completely stripped of essential items from people seemingly stockpiling products as fears surrounding the coronavirus outbreak …

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Politics

Those That Trust Trump, or Who Hearts America?

January 14, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

A fascinating update, courtesy of Pew Research Center, on attitudes towards the United States around the world, best summarised in this table: It’s personally interesting to note that Poland is the …

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