Andrew Sullivan has written an article about distancing ourselves from China. He starts by talking of the death of globalisation: The nation-state was beginning to reassert itself before, but COVID-19 has revealed its indispensability. Europeans realized, if they hadn’t already, that a truly continental response was beyond the E.
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Jeff Jacoby PA Pundits – International Jeff Jacoby is a columnist for The Boston Globe Did Sweden blunder? Or did everyone else? In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, most of the world’s governments have gone to unheard-of lengths to keep people apart and try to slow the spread of the
What comes through in this podcast is how China works with western companies. It allows them to operate in China and make money, but at what cost? Essentially, those western companies can never take money out of China and are forced to continually put more in. There are so many
Taiwan has had a challenging history. Having been colonised by the Dutch and Spanish the island nation, located 81 miles off the coast of China, was ruled by the Chinese Fujian province under the Qing dynasty until sovereignty was ceded to Japan in 1895. Following the end of World War
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One of the few news items to immediately brighten my day in these trying times crossed my virtual desk this morning. US President Donald Trump has threatened to defund the World Health Organisation after the “China centric” body failed to support early travel bans which could have saved tens of
Sweden isn’t a country high on my list of places to visit. I went to Norway once and that was bad enough. Sweden is a country run by a commissariat of trades unionists, radical feminists and individuals who, by their own admission, are no friends of Israel. Every Swede,
Alex Davis theemperorsrobes.blogspot.com Alex Davis is a business executive and director of several companies in New Zealand and overseas. He has included a lot of links to substantiate his opinion. In particular, this Swiss site which contains a large selection of articles on COVID-19. Alex originally offered his
Editors note: Due to technical issues yesterday that prevented our articles from being viewed by most of our audience I have made the decision to republish them today. The Chinese government has been playing the West for fools. First, they plundered all our personal protective equipment items, knowing full well
The Chinese government has been playing the West for fools. First, they plundered all our personal protective equipment items, knowing full well we were going to need them. Then they turned around and offered to send us PPE. But wait. Not the PPE they plundered from us, the crappy stuff
Finance Minister Grant Robertson was interviewed by Mike Hosking on 31st of March. When asked about the effects of the Coronavirus on the New Zealand economy he was frank. “Generations will be paying for it,” he said. But should they? Should we? The devastation that was caused by the Coronavirus
Australian political firebrand Pauline Hanson hasn’t been holding back – as usual – about the Chinese communist regime’s complicity in the global COVID-19 pandemic and what Australia should do in response. Now, another maverick conservative, Nationals MP George Christensen, is going even harder. China should be made to pay reparations
Fred Lucas PA Pundits – International The Chinese government says it has lifted the lockdown for the province of Hubei, where the coronavirus first emerged, and has reported no new results for several days. However, much anecdotal information has arisen to call the official line from the Chinese Communist Party into
Since we went into lockdown doctors have started coming out of the woodwork. After all, it’s not often that medical doctors write opinion pieces in national newspapers. Pathologist Dr John Lee has written a second article for The Spectator in which he is at great pains to point out
