“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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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
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
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
The great risk of asymmetrical warfare is that the seemingly more powerful side – usually a nation-state and its regular armed forces – are actually at a severe disadvantage. This is especially true of liberal democracies, whose armed forces are held rigidly to the rules of war, but intensely scrutinised – not least
righttolife.org.uk An MP has urged the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office to call on the Chinese Communist Party to end their population control measures, including forced abortions and sterilisation, of the Uyghur community in China. Conservative MP Fiona Bruce, in a debate in the House of Commons on
I’ve been saying for some time now that Xi Xinping’s China is the Nazi Germany of the 21st century. It turns out that I’m not alone in drawing such a conclusion. None other than John Ratcliffe, the United States Director of National Intelligence, has proclaimed China the
Johannes Leak’s cartoon summed it all: as PM Scott Morrison declares, “I will never compromise Australian values by caving in to China’s bullying”, opposition leader Anthony Albanese jumps in, waving a Chinese flag: “I will!” For too long, the Labor party, like too many in high places in
Chongyi Feng University of Technology Sydney As the diplomatic fallout continues over the digitally altered war crimes tweet sent by China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Zhao Lijian, earlier this week, it’s important to note this inflammatory and offensive post is not an isolated case. Zhao and other Chinese officials
I have several times lumped French president Emmanuel Macron in as part of a “Golden Trio” of progressive idols, along with New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern and Canada’s Justin Trudeau. It seemed a natural enough assessment: after all, Macron, the ex-Goldman Sachs banker who talked of “struggle against this
Barbara Kay mercatornet.com Barbara Kay studied English Literature – undergrad at U of Toronto and graduate studies at McGill. For many years she taught literature and composition part-time at various Quebec Cegeps. She was also… More by Barbara Kay A Canadian bill would ban ‘conversion therapy’ for gays, while parents
New Zealand can consider itself warned – and put in its place. When Jacinda Ardern issued a rebuke – however mild – to the Chinese regime over its use of a faked Twitter image to smear Australia, it was a welcome change in direction from a leader who has been more besotted by
The phrase “useful idiots” may be of uncertain provenance but its applicability is rarely in doubt. Oxford defines the term as referring to someone “naive and susceptible to manipulation for propaganda or…similarly manipulable for political purposes”, especially by totalitarian regimes. Not for nothing was it first applied to the
