Most people seem to forget that the British empire peaked, not in the 19th century, but in the 1920s. By 1938, 500 million people — one-quarter of the global population — lived within the Empire. Yet, within a couple of decades, the Empire was all but gone. The last colonial territory, Hong
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As I wrote recently, I’m no fan of Nancy Pelosi, by a long shot, but I salute her for her ballsy and long-standing pushback against China’s brutality. Where most of the political-media class are running scared of China’s bullying on Taiwan, Pelosi, to her infinite credit, stood
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Many years ago, I worked with a young Chinese expat. One day he told me how, in China, he’d been a member of the Young Pioneers, the youth wing of the Chinese Communist Party. Then he came to Australia. Many of the things he’d been told all his
It has to be said that The Economist is a reliable guide to decision-making, in the same way as Bart Simpson. Every pundit, policy-maker and opinionist ought to carry a printed card that reminds them, “Whatever The Economist says, do the opposite”. After all, this is the magazine that touted
John Ling wealthmorning.com John is the Chief Investment Officer at Wealth Morning. His responsibilities include trading, client service, and compliance. He is an experienced investor and portfolio manager, trading both on his own account and assisting with high net-worth clients. ‘History is written by the victors.’ We’ve all
The ink has barely dried and the pockets barely greased on China’s gibsmedat deal with the Solomon Islands and Beijing’s malign influence is already being felt. Around the world, the Xi regime has been using debt-trap diplomacy and the folly of greedy tinpot panjandrums to buy influence and
Patty-Jane Geller PA Pundits – International papundits.wordpress.com Patty-Jane Geller, a policy analyst, focuses on nuclear deterrence and missile defense in the Center for National Defense at The Heritage Foundation. http://www.heritage.org/ Deterrence is a better way to prevent hostilities than appeasement. On Thursday, the Biden administration delayed
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We all know about the fever of “Jacindamania”. How someone so lightweight, without the slightest understanding of how to achieve anything, became so feted, both here and overseas, is something I will never understand. Sure, she is a change from a lot of the crusty old politicians, as her appearance
Remember when Donald Trump was going to start WWIII? Which time? you ask. Exactly. The panic-mongering over Trump doing whatever it was that triggered the legacy media at any given time was just that: ludicrous panic-mongering. The panic-mongering over Nancy Pelosi’s state visit to Taiwan has been no less
Ali Iqbal Aliya Khan McMaster University Ali Iqbal is a transplant nephrologist at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton and an Assistant Professor at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He works with patients who have chronic kidney disease at all stages of their transplant journey, from pre-transplant assessment to post-transplant
It was only a matter of time before the Chinese Communist Party really came for Drew Pavlou. Pavlou is the Australian human rights activist who first came to attention when he was a student, subjected to an extraordinary campaign of harassment from University of Queensland, after he organised protests against
