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
Louis T. March mercatornet.comtext Louis T. March has a background in government, business and philanthropy. A former talk show host, author and public speaker, he is a dedicated student of history and genealogy. Louis lives with his family in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. In April 2021, something
G. Owen Schaefer Assistant Professor in Biomedical Ethics National University of Singapore In the four years since an experiment by disgraced scientist He Jiankui resulted in the birth of the first babies with edited genes, numerous articles, books and international commissions have reflected on whether and how heritable genome editing
Jeffrey Lindsay Jeffrey Dean Lindsay is a US patent agent, technology scout, and intellectual property (IP) strategist using IP to help client cope with the challenges of disruptive innovation. He has a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Brigham Young University. One of the great paradoxes of China is how
As Clive Hamilton’s Silent Invasion warns, China has and is systematically insinuating its network of spying and influence at all levels of Australian society. At the risk of sounding like a McCarthyite Cold Warrior, the communist giant’s tentacles reach from local government, and community associations, to the highest
The Chinese Communist Party pumped massive resources into influencing the last Australian election. From allegedly timing staged foreign policy moves in the Pacific to embarrass the Coalition government, to trying to bankroll candidates in the election. Labor candidates. CCP-linked figures had also been caught out handing literal shopping bags of
Well, if it ever comes to a hot war with China, the generals in Beijing can at least rest assured they’ve got plenty of staging areas in the Pacific. Not just the knockoff “islands” they’ve been manufacturing in the South China Sea, or even the Cargo Cultists of
Michael Senger brownstone.org Michael P Senger is an attorney and author of Snake Oil: How Xi Jinping Shut Down the World. He has been researching the influence of the Chinese Communist Party on the world’s response to COVID-19 since March 2020 and previously authored China’s Global Lockdown
