World Politics
Hit China Where It Hurts
Nationals senator Matt Canavan is not one of the Coalition’s shrinking violets. The former Resources Minister has been quite prepared to take the stick to rent-seeking energy companies and mining billionaires giving free propaganda leg-ups to Chinese communist bullies. Canavan has more recently pushed the federal government to tear
Aussie Businessman Vows “No to China”
The Chinese Communist Party may have bought the undying loyalty of some politicians and mining magnates, but their trade and diplomatic assault on Australia is rapidly hardening resolve on the home front. And at least some in the business community are trying to do their bit. While Twiggy Forrest sneaks
Does China Really Hold All the Economic Cards?
“Asymmetric warfare” is a well-known concept in international relations – but does it apply in economic warfare as well as military conflict? Asymmetric warfare is war between combatants whose relative military strength, or tactics and strategy differ significantly. Commonly, between professional armies and militias or insurgents. Paradoxically, asymmetric warfare often benefits
Killing One to Save Millions
When the head of Iran’s terror programs, Qassem Soleimani, a man responsible for hundreds of American deaths as well as thousands (if not millions) more across the Middle East, was assassinated in a targeted drone strike, the left-media reacted predictably. As well as their standard frantic gibbering about “World
Australia Is a Key Ally for Nigeria’s Persecuted Christians
Ayo Adedoyin mercatornet.com Ayo Adedoyin is Chief Executive of PSJ UK, a humanitarian organisation campaigning against the persecution of Christians and other minorities in Nigeria. You might not know it, but a silent slaughter is currently underway in Nigeria — a slaughter of Nigeria’s Christians. Take Haruna Kuye, a
Cure Worse Than the Disease
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com The New York Post reports: Japan is struggling with a mental health crisis as the coronavirus pandemic rages on, with more people dying in one month from suicide than from COVID-19 all year long. The National Police Agency said suicides surged to 2,153 in
China’s Victims Want It Named as a “Criminal Organisation”
I have frequently written that Communist China is the Nazi Germany of the 21st century. Insofar as China is indisputably emerging as the pre-eminent threat to global freedom, this seems difficult to challenge. But the Nazi regime was not the only existential threat to liberty in the 20th century – its
More of China’s Useful Idiots Exposed in Victoria
“Chairman Dan” Andrews, the Victorian premier, seems only too willing to turn his state into a puppet of Beijing. He’s got plenty of fellow-travellers working with him behind the scenes. The Andrews government minister who played a key role in negotiations with China over Victoria’s Belt and Road
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Chinese Developers Bar Locals From an Australian Island
China’s punishing trade war against Australia, in open retaliation for the Morrison government’s backing of an independent international investigation into the origins of the Wuhan virus, is but one face of the reality of dealing with a bullying communist dictatorship. Just as China openly told New Zealand to
Face of the Day
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dedicated a display to President Donald Trump in Israel’s Cabinet meeting room on Sunday, in honour of the third anniversary of Trump’s historic decision to move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. The plaque hangs alongside a similar one, dedicated to the
New Leaks Show Scale of China’s Virus Lies
From the very beginning, there’s been every reason to believe that Beijing has lied through its teeth about the Wuhan virus: not just its origins, but the true scale of the outbreak in Wuhan. A year on from the first reported infections, the sheer scale of at least some