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
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
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. What has been will be again, what has
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
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
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
Australian human rights campaigner Drew Pavlou has endured the wrath of the Chinese Communist Party for years, from his own university turning on him, to being arrested for holding a blank sign outside the Chinese consulate in Brisbane. But the CCP’s vengeful persecution reached a peak this week. Pavlou
Donn Dears cfact.org Donn is an engineer and retired senior executive of the General Electric Company who spent his career in the power sector. He led organizations that provided engineering services for GE’s large electrical apparatus and spearheaded the establishment of GE subsidiary companies around the world. The
As William S. Burroughs once said, beware of whores who say they don’t want money. The hell they don’t. What they mean is that they want more money; much more, these are the most expensive whores what can be got. Burroughs added, above all, avoid confirmed criminals. Xi
As Ricky Gervais so brutally reminded the 2020 Golden Globe audience, Hollywood talks a big game about ‘progressivism’ and human rights, but they’re perfectly happy to jump in bed with the world’s worst people if the money’s right. For years, Hollywood had an unspoken rule of not
Like me, most BFD readers would be old enough to remember when Russia was feted as the emerging economic superpower. Through the late ’70s and early ’80s, the communist giant was hailed as the economic Next Big Thing that would put those upstart capitalist Yanks in their place, once and
The reason the Covid pandemic has been so devastating can be summed up in a simple sentence: China lied, people died. It really does come down to that: for every week that China lied and tried to hide the outbreak in Wuhan, the opportunity to contain the disease — and the
Hong Kong Free Press globalvoices.org Hong Kong Free Press is an English language news source seeking to unite critical voices on local and national affairs. Free of charge and completely independent, HKFP arrived amid rising concerns over declining press freedom in Hong Kong and during an important time in
In 1996 I arrived in Hong Kong. There I worked in various capacities including factory inspections within a territory ranging from Japan across to India and down to New Zealand. Over a decade I probably performed over 300 factory inspections: checking all sorts of things – health, safety, employee age, remuneration,
