In an episode of The Simpsons, Homer, left alone to supervise the kids, is given a simple piece of advice: “Always do the opposite of what Bart says”. There are some people in life who are just like that. Their talent for being wrong and/or venal is so pronounced
There is very little I’ll credit the Albanese government for, but one faint praise I’ll damn them with is that at least they haven’t scuttled the AUKUS deal. In doing so, it’s swimming against some very powerful internal tides. After all, China was clearly hoping for
It’s long ago been relegated to the dusty closet of the embarrassing past like a tatty old pair of Roller Strollers, but back in the 80s it was the height of fashion. I’m talking about the propensity of furrow-browed, mid-wit chin-strokers to declare that the future belonged to
In his excellent book Tombstone, Yang Jisheng relates what it was like to actually live through the monstrous crime of the Great Leap Forward. As an estimated 40 million of their fellow citizens starved to death, most Chinese had no idea it was even happening. How did the Mao regime
As I reported yesterday, the ASIO chief warned that Australia was battling unprecedented assault from both without and within. At the same, Mike Burgess said, Australia was facing off more spying by a hostile foreign power than at any other time in its history, it’s being sapped from within
Just because Joe McCarthy was paranoid doesn’t mean that he was wrong about the deep and troubling reach of communist agents burrowing into America’s government and entertainment industries. Mostly, McCarthy’s only real mistake was being late to the party, at least as far as the State Department
Peter Murphy cfact.org Peter Murphy is Senior Fellow at CFACT. He has researched and advocated for a variety of policy issues, including education reform and fiscal policy, both in the non-profit sector and in government in the administration of former New York Governor George Pataki. He previously wrote and
David Stupples Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Director of Electronic Warfare Research City University of London The US military has now shot down four high-altitude objects that had entered American and Canadian airspace, raising questions about their purpose and origin. The first of these objects, a Chinese balloon,
Joseph Solis-Mullen mises.org A graduate of Spring Arbor University and the University of Illinois, Joseph Solis-Mullen is a political scientist and graduate student in the economics department at the University of Missouri. An independent researcher and journalist, his work can be found at the Ludwig Von Mises Institute, Eurasian
Donald Rothwell Professor of International Law Australian National University Was the balloon that suddenly appeared over the US last week undertaking surveillance? Or was it engaging in research, as China has claimed? While the answers to these questions may not be immediately known, one thing is clear: the incursion of
Dave Patterson libertynation.com Keeping the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) out of Americans’ everyday affairs is becoming more challenging. We’ve seen Beijing-backed businesses purchase real estate and other US enterprises. The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has scientists embedded in America’s most sensitive research facilities. Liberty Nation’
Communist China is the most rigorously atheist country in the world. Which should hardly be surprising: Communism is a jealous god, after all. As an ideology of total control, communism simply cannot tolerate rivals for the minds of its subject populations. The Soviet Union similarly crushed the churches. China still
Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura We have rooftop solar at home which has proven to be a sound investment and has made us far more aware of our electricity consumption, thanks to the helpful app. We’ve consciously changed how we consume electricity, to maximise our use of solar power.
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts, used to be the saying. Today, it might be better phrased as, Beware of Chinese bearing development aid. Xi Xinping’s Belt and Road Initiative is notorious for trapping unwary countries and their gormless leaders in a debt-trap, in exchange for cheap Chinese knockoffs that
Feng Wang Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Throughout much of recorded human history, China has boasted the largest population in the world – and until recently, by some margin. So news that the Chinese population is now in decline, and will sometime later this year be surpassed by that
In the middle of the last century, Australia’s closest ally was New Zealand and its bitterest enemy was Japan. In the early decades of the new century, those roles haven’t been entirely reversed, but they certainly have been severely shaken. Indeed, within a decade of the end of
