Did you know that the Chinese Ambassador to New Zealand, Wang Xiaolong, has sent a 36 page, 11,300-word letter to numerous New Zealand MPs, railing against the United States? You certainly won’t have heard about it from the New Zealand media, who are strangely silent on the
Jose Caballero Senior Economist, IMD World Competitiveness Center International Institute for Management Development (IMD) China’s billions of dollars in global investments and infrastructure projects seem to be paying off politically and economically. Just recently, Honduras signalled it is set to cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan, having been one of
Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com A few weeks ago, the New Zealand media gave some coverage to the spectacle of the US President and the Prime Ministers of Australia and the UK signing an agreement whereby Australia will buy eight nuclear-powered submarines over the next two decades at a cost
Liberty Nation News libertynation.com During meetings in Moscow, President Xi Jinping of China and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin went to great lengths to impress the rest of the world with their “friendship without limits”. It was obvious Putin was sparing no expense to lavish ceremonial pomp on the
As recently reported for The BFD, former Australian PM Paul Keating was back in the news last week. The very person who coined the phrase “Relevance Deprivation Syndrome” was doing his best to desperately try and claw back some relevance and at the same time earn his spot on the
Tierin-Rose Mandelburg Staff Writer/Researcher newsbusters.org Tierin-Rose grew up in a large Christian family on the coast of Connecticut. After high school she moved to Alabama to dance with a professional ballet company while attending Liberty University. She served as an MRC Culture intern in Spring 2021
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
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
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
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
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
