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
John Tamny fee.org John Tamny is director of the Center for Economic Freedom at FreedomWorks, a senior economic adviser to Toreador Research & Trading and editor of RealClearMarkets. When Cato Institute co-founder Ed Crane visited the Soviet Union in 1981, he was already a critic of arms-race brinksmanship with
Tao Zhang Nottingham Trent University Protests have erupted across China, initially in response to the deaths of ten people in a fire in an apartment block in Xinjiang in the country’s northwest. The demonstrations represent the biggest expression of public unrest since the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement was
Jonathan Miltimore fee.org Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Protests erupted across China in recent days as demonstrators have taken to the
Left-wing Australian Twits were beside themselves with joy this week. In scenes of rapture not seen since Neville Chamberlain waved his little piece of paper, the left-elite worked themselves into a lather over the sight of PM Anthony Albanese obsequiously grasping the proffered hand of their favourite Big Daddy since
Dave Patterson libertynation.com Dave Patterson is a retired US Air Force pilot and the former Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Comptroller. In addition to Liberty Nation, his articles have also appeared in The Federalist. Since becoming the US chief executive, President Biden will for the first time meet
