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Asia Embraces Coal as the U.S. Rejects It

Vijay Jayaraj Vijay Jayaraj is a Research Associate at the CO2 Coalition, Arlington, Virginia. He holds a master’s degree in environmental sciences from the University of East Anglia, U.K. realclearwire.com Vietnam and other Asian countries are on a coal spree! Given the dynamics of energy use in

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Just What Are China Shills Cheering For?

Just What Are China Shills Cheering For?

He can threaten Winston Peters all he likes, but it’s undeniable that former NSW premier and ALP heavyweight Bob Carr is a vocal proponent of Communist China. In fact, the Financial Review in 2018 openly described Carr as “China’s pawn”. Yet, as the Fin Review noted, Carr was

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Winston Calls Carr an ‘Irrelevant Ill-Informed Shill’

Winston Calls Carr an ‘Irrelevant Ill-Informed Shill’

The Media Party is all aquiver that Winston Peters seems to have more courage than them when it comes to calling things as they seem. He’s doubled down on Bob Carr, calling him an ‘irrelevant ill-informed shill’ which, given the ample information that abounds on the internet, seems entirely

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Wily Winston Far Too Clever for Bob Carr and David Parker

Wily Winston Far Too Clever for Bob Carr and David Parker

Former Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr was recently in New Zealand at the behest of the Labour Party and spoke at a meeting organised by them. In his speech he lambasted the Government and Winston Peters for entertaining becoming part of AUKUS. Which was rather strange, since it was Labour

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The Other Side of the Coin

The Other Side of the Coin

Miguel Alejandro Laborde Miguel Alejandro Laborde is a former NCO in the 160th SOAR (A), and a subject matter expert on defence aviation programs, capabilities, and platforms, with decades’ worth of experience in the aerospace industry supporting the joint force. realclearwire.com This opinion-editorial serves as a follow up – a

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Is This Selling out Our National Security?

Is This Selling out Our National Security?

Simon O’Connor Husband, step-father, and longtime student of philosophy and history. Also happen to be a former politician, including chairing New Zealand’s Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Committee. onpointnz.substack.com In a recent New Zealand Herald article, former MP Richard Prebble argues that New Zealand should not

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Why Not AUKUS?

Don Brash Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 bassettbrashandhide.com A few weeks ago, Helen Clark and I wrote a joint op-ed for the New Zealand Herald entitled “We must not abandon our independent foreign policy”. Since that

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A Clear Danger to the World

A Clear Danger to the World

David Wojick David Wojick, Ph.D. is an inDr. David Wojick is an independent policy analyst and senior advisor to CFACT. As a civil engineer with a Ph.D. in logic and analytic philosophy of science, he brings a unique perspective to complex policy issues. His specializes in science and

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U.S. Official’s Easter-In-China Post Stirs Ire at Home

Susan Crabtree Susan Crabtree is RealClearPolitics’ national political correspondent. realclearwire.com A simple social media post from a U.S. ambassador praising a Catholic Easter service would go largely unnoticed in the countries of many U.S. allies. But in China, where churches, synagogues, and mosques must be sanctioned and

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When Will We Get It?

Recently something happened in the tech world that should have made world headlines. But it didn’t. On March 29, Microsoft software developer Andres Freund was trying to optimize the performance of his computer when he noticed that one program was using an unexpected amount of processing power. Freund dove

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Spying: It’s What Great Powers Do

Spying: It’s What Great Powers Do

Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com There has been fairly predictable outrage this week at the revelation by Judith Collins, the minister in charge of the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) and Security Intelligence Service (SIS), that China spied on our Parliament in 2021. China has denied the accusation, but knowing Judith

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What Was Suspected, Is Now Exposed

What Was Suspected, Is Now Exposed

Simon O’Connor onpointnz.substack.com Husband, step-father, and longtime student of philosophy and history. Also happen to be a former politician, including chairing New Zealand’s Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Committee. Some may find it extraordinary to think that New Zealand’s largest trading partner thought it perfectly

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Govt Must Get Their Priorities Straight

Simon O’Connor Husband, step-father, and longtime student of philosophy and history. Also happen to be a former politician, including chairing New Zealand’s Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Committee. onpointnz.substack.com The Reserve Bank has recently been advertising for a Principal Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Adviser.  As the

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XI’s Poodle Does His Little Yappy Dance

XI’s Poodle Does His Little Yappy Dance

As I reported for The BFD, the Chinese Communist Party poured rivers of money into getting Labor elected in 2022. They can’t say they haven’t got their money’s worth. The Albanese government has reportedly removed ASIO boss Mike Burgess and ASIS chief Kerri Hartland from its National

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Will China Be Treated as a Friend or Foe of New Zealand?

Will China Be Treated as a Friend or Foe of New Zealand?

Geoffrey Miller Geoffrey Miller is the Democracy Project’s geopolitical 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. He is currently working on a PhD at the University

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