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18th July 2021 Warning WARNING – SOME READERS MAY FIND THE FOLLOWING PICTURES DISTRESSING. Following on from yesterday’s piece on Covid in Myanmar, it is becoming clear that the junta are weaponizing Covid to further impose control and punishment on the population. This wasn’t helped by the arrest of
Geoffrey Miller Victoria University Of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Geoffrey Miller is an international analyst at the Democracy Project. He has lived and travelled extensively in the Middle East and is a fluent Arabic speaker. Saturday’s special virtual APEC summit was so modest in its aims that
17th July 2021 With the near destruction of formal health services in Myanmar and the increase in infections of Covid, there is a disaster of epic proportions looming on the horizon. As with everything in Myanmar the accuracy of data and reports leaves a lot to be desired. Where possible
China is turning the South China Sea into a world of shit. Literally. Figuratively, of course, China has been stirring up a shit-storm in the South China Sea for years, trying to claim the disputed territory for itself. China has laid claim to isolated reefs, atolls and sandbars, declaring them
CJ Hopkins consentfactory.org The ultimate goal of every totalitarian system is to establish complete control over society and every individual within it in order to achieve ideological uniformity and eliminate any and all deviation from it. This goal can never be achieved, of course, but it is the raison
16th July 2021 The incarceration of journalists continues, which helps to explain some of the difficulty in getting reports from Myanmar. The military is trying to put a stranglehold on the flow of information from the country and is repressing as much of the media as it possibly can. Nearly
When I wrote, yesterday, that West Australian premier Mark McGowan is an elected dictator, dancing to the tune of his paymasters in Beijing, I worried that I was being hyperbolic. If anything, it appears that I was being cautious. Performers from regions annexed by China have been barred from appearing
15th July 2021 Nothing that follows in the article below is to be taken as an endorsement of what happened to the Rohingya during their expulsion from Myanmar which was of course unforgivable and horrific. I have always thought that the West didn’t understand the situation and their reactions
Geoffrey Miller Victoria University Of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Geoffrey Miller is an international analyst at the Democracy Project It was about APEC. And the Indo-Pacific. But most of all, it was about China. Jacinda Ardern’s keynote foreign policy address on Wednesday – at the annual conference of
Kurt Mahlburg mercatornet.com Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young
As we are all-too-aware, China has been stealing sensitive information from the West for years. The theft ranges from intellectual property worth billions a year, to scientific research, to military secrets. Now, we learn that China has been stealing the most sensitive data of all: our DNA. A prenatal test
Geoffrey Miller Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Geoffrey Miller is an international analyst at the Democracy Project. What is New Zealand’s most important role in a quickly changing geopolitical world? It could be mediating between China and the West, according to international analyst Geoffrey Miller.
