The world after Corona
As the current pandemic crisis continues to unfold across the globe, more and more important people are heard making pronouncements that our world and our lives will not be the …
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We need a globalisation insurance
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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Don’t mention the pandemic
The Woke Health Organisation – sorry, the World Health Organisation – continues to provide non-stop entertainment since the start of the Coronavirus outbreak. I don’t know if laughter is the …
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Those That Trust Trump, or Who Hearts America?
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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A very good question indeed
The former Labor Environment Minister, and a wistful reminder of the time when Labor had serious politicians, Graham Richardson, asks a very good question: Just how did Australia fall from a …
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Russia and China after your internet
Nothing good ever comes of when these two take interest in something: The United Nations on Friday approved a Russian-led bid that aims to create a new convention on cybercrime, …
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When Greta goes to Guangzhou, part 2
The shot (no pun intended): The chaser: Yeah, no, probably not these world leaders. P.S. This has been the shortest Daily Chrenk post ever, but pictures do tell a thousand …
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China DGAF, the left oblivious
The wages of identity politics – “white man bad” and all that – is the obsessive focus on own society’s failings, the real, the exaggerated, the imaginary, while everyone else …
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China: Care about Uighurs? You must be a white supremacist
Somehow I have managed to miss this absolutely hottest take on the issue of persecution of China’s Muslim minority, from Lijian Zhao, a foreign ministry official: Zhao is talking about …
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The United Nations is a joke with zero credibility on human rights
Tell us something we don’t know The Daily Chrenk, I can hear my readers saying right about now. Sure, it’s nothing new, yet no matter how used I am now …
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Let sport be sport
At least until recently, sport used to be one of the last institutions that could transcend all the divisions in society. People from all walks of life, of all ages, …
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China – not quite 70 for 70
People’s Republic of China is today celebrating 70 years of existence. On this day in 1949, Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the new state at the Tiananmen Square in …
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When Greta goes to Guangzhou
The climate change activism, and in particular, its more hysterical Extinction Rebellion/School Strike “we’re all going to die” variety, are very much a Western phenomenon, despite the issue of climate …
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In Liu of answers
I don’t know Gladys Liu from a bar of soap, so I have no idea whether she’s got any compromising relationship with the Chinese communist authorities and their numerous overseas …
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The great Chinese take away
“The Atlantic” has a very long and a very good article about the Chinese espionage in America (you can imagine the situation is not dissimilar in other countries of interest): Donald …
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Honk for Honkers
When I visited Hong Kong three years ago, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge was still under construction, with pylons lined up along the existing road from the airport to the city still …
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The Prime Minister who broke the Pacific’s heart…
…and made them cry. Apparently: A Prime Minister has been brought to tears over Australia’s stalled efforts around climate change. Wrapping up the Pacific Island Forum held this week in …
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China – a friend or a fowl?
Liberal MP Andrew Hastie, an ex-soldier who currently happens to be the chair of the parliamentary intelligence committee, has created a bit of a stir when he compared the rise …
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AFL’s own goal at Tiananmen Stadium
If you need any further evidence that time indeed flies, on Tuesday we will remember the 30th anniversary of the Communist Party of China sending tanks against its own people …
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Welcome to communist anime porn
While we’re still waiting for a comic book about Lenin and Stalin as superheroes (the original Iron Man), the ChiComms produce some cartoon (in both senses of the word) history: …
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