In its first few weeks of government Albanese’s Labor have managed to comprehensively bollix nearly everything. Nearly. There’s been one glaring and pleasingly surprising exception: so far – so far – Labor have passed their first China test somewhat impressively. The surprise is even bigger, given that Albanese appointed notorious
Eight years ago, almost to the day, the average Chinese person on the street decided to start investing in the sharemarket. It didn’t end well. The Shanghai Index went from 2000 points up to over 5000 points a year later, followed by a spectacular crash where the market index
Alexander Gillespie University of Waikato Alexander Gillespie works primarily in international law, with specialties in international environmental and the laws of war/international humanitarian law. This week’s White House meeting between Jacinda Ardern and Joe Biden reflected a world undergoing rapid change. But of all the shared challenges discussed,
In the decades since World War Two you will have noticed the endless sanctimony from the left regarding America. One seemingly endless criticism has been about the supposed “American Imperialism”. Perhaps you yourself have swallowed that one whole too. Whenever America seeks to assist in preventing innocent people being subjugated
Michael Senger brownstone.org Michael P Senger is an attorney based in the United States. 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 Propaganda Campaign and The Masked Ball of
As we all know, suggesting that anything contrary to whatever the media-political class have currently decided is The Science™ is crazy conspiracy-stuff. Of course The Science™ is apt to change to whatever the media-political class need it to be, faster than you can say “Hunter’s laptop”. Yesterday’s crazy
Geoffrey Miller Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Geoffrey Miller is the Democracy Project’s international analyst and writes on current New Zealand foreign policy and related geopolitical issues. He has lived in Germany and the Middle East and is a learner of Arabic and Russian. Warning
Xiujian Peng Victoria University Dr Xiujian Peng is a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre of Policy Studies (CoPS) at Victoria University (VU). Before joining VU, she held positions as Senior Research Associate at the University of Adelaide and Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Population Research, Renmin University of
A stunning leaked cache of police data has opened a disturbing window into China’s gulags in Xinjiang. The leak includes spreadsheets and thousands of photos of detained Uighurs. The trove of shocking material was leaked to the BBC earlier in the year, and the broadcaster has spent the months
Well, we don’t call him “Each-Way Albo” for nothing. Newly-sworn in PM Anthony Albanese’s very first day on the job brought a splendid display of the Labor leader’s penchant for speaking out of both sides of his mouth. There should be no surprises that the issue was
If Australians really do vote Anthony Albanese’s Labor party into government, what can we expect? Well, we can get a fair idea, just by looking across the Tasman. Of course, the Australian media-left has been doing just that for the past five years, but they’ve been doing so
Vera Stanton I’m an ex-pat Kiwi who spent 14 years in Hong Kong before recently relocating to Europe. I witnessed a dramatic change in the city during this time, especially since the 2019 pro-democracy protests. Many residents, like myself, have been driven out of Hong Kong by China’s
Joe Wang brownstone.org Joe Wang, Ph.D., was a lead scientist for Sanofi Pasteur’s SARS vaccine project in 2003. He is now the president of New Tang Dynasty TV (Canada), a media partner of The Epoch Times. Warning Long read. 1410 words. For more than a month now,
God damn Mark Steyn: he always steals the best lines. Especially about China. It was Steyn who, pointing out China’s inescapable demographic trajectory, wrote that unless it’s “planning on becoming the first gay superpower since Sparta”, what’s it going to do with all its un-paired young men?
Fools, as they say, rush in. As I wrote some months back, China is eagerly hopping into the still-warm grave of the US intervention in Afghanistan. The last US helicopter had barely lifted off when China’s foreign minister was hosting the Taliban and preparing to sign a series of
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