Why the elites heart China
While the eyes of the world remain firmly focused on eastern Europe and the very real prospect of a major conventional war between Russia and Ukraine brought about by Putin’s …
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20 + 1 Best Books I’ve Read in 2021
This is the last time I’m ever doing New Year’s resolutions. My resolution for 2021 was to read less – not because I hate reading but to have more diverse …
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The Axis of Assholes
As Taliban prepare to yet again, a quarter of a century later, take over Afghanistan, an olive branch is extended to China. China is a “friend,” says Taliban spokesman in Qatar, Suhail …
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World hearts commies
Life expectancy in China being close to 77 years by now, at 100 the Chinese Communist Party is long overdue for demise. That this happens speedily and as peacefully as …
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Why we need conservative counter culture
Children are the future. But what future will it be when the children of today are indoctrinated up to their eyeballs by the education system, the indoctrination only reinforced by …
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Proud to be a scumbag
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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Eight trends to watch in 2021
Twenty-twenty, the year of the “cool number” previously associated with the positive (perfect vision), had been anything but cool and positive itself. A lot had gone wrong; most related to the …
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There ain’t no party like a Communist Party
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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Shock: China does not understand freedom of speech
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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Team Biden: managing America’s decline and the rise of China
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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America’s mythical allies – and the real ones
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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Free Tibet (Labour)
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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China does as China is
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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Celebrity strikes? Yes please!
Twenty-twenty is providing a much needed reminder of the absolute importance of essential workers and first responders. In times like these, it’s quite courageous for celebrities of all kinds to keep …
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America is bad for democracy, say allies
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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Let’s create Hong Kong 2 in Australia
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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Losing My Region – Australians and the world cool on China
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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Fact Check: “Disease ambassadors”?
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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COVID killed the radio star: the winners and the losers of the viralmageddon
Joel Kotkin, a sensible urbanist (rare, I know), has been sounding an alarm about the hollowing out of our economy and our society for a while now. His news book, The …
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