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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
Dan Chen Gengsong Gao University of Richmond Dan Chen is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Richmond. Her current research examines the versatile role of the media in authoritarian politics and governance. Gengsong Gao is an Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Richmond.
Kuan-Wei Chen McGill University Mr. Kuan-Wei (David) Chen is the Managing Editor of the McGill Manual on International Law Applicable to Military Uses of Outer Space (McGill Manual, https://www.mcgill.ca/milamos/) WorldPride 2025 would have been the first time a global lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and
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
Louis T March mercatornet.com 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. Huge news from the
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
