One half of my family originates from the Mediterranean island state of Malta. Strategically located between Africa and Southern Europe, Malta is an island that has, like its last colonial ruler, Britain, been invaded and colonised many times in its history. That history of colonisation – from the Phoenicians and Romans
So what’s going on at Australia’s taxpayer-funded leftist propaganda outlet lately? What exactly are we Aussie taxpayers getting for our billion-plus dollars a year? Aside from the usual cavalcade of wokeness – they’ve only stopped prattling about climate change for as long as it’s taken them to
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As I posted recently, much of China’s recent belligerence is the result of the innate paranoia of communist regimes combined with the Middle Kingdom’s vanity and insularity. A “toxic mix of hubris, overreach, impetuosity and emerging panic” is gripping the Xi regime, observes commentator John Lee. Beijing realises
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To illustrate some of the actions of China whilst the West is distracted with COVID- 19, negotiations between Iran and China over the creation of a 25-year strategic development plan seem to have been finalised. The New York Times published excerpts from the 18 page document described as “final version”
What is becoming undeniably clear in the Wuhan pandemic is that the worst depredations of the virus have been enabled by the stupidity and incompetence of governments and health bureaucracies. Besides the original epicentre in China, there’s the horror-show in New York, run by a Democrat governor and mayor.
Following on from my previous letter regarding China, there are now interesting developments in the UK. It has ditched Huawei from the 5G programme and is looking to remove Huawei’s influence from the current infrastructure over the next few years. The UK’s mobile providers are being banned from
Communism thrives on enemies. Even in the West, Marxists continually portray themselves as besieged victims, even as they brutally seize the reins of power in every institution of civic life. China is no exception. The innate paranoia of communist regimes combines with the Middle Kingdom’s vanity and insularity – especially
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Doubtless, the UN is still smarting from President Donald Trump’s withdrawal of US funding of the World Health Organisation because Trump said the US contribution was not fair. Trump has also expressed frustration that the US pays a disproportionate share of the WHO’s operational budget in comparison to
As I wrote some time ago, Justin Trudeau is one-third of the global left’s “Golden Trio” — and the first to face the test of re-election. While Emmanuel Macron and Jacinda Ardern are yet to face the judgement of voters, Trudeau faced Canadian voters late last year — and barely limped
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“Never start an enquiry unless you know what its findings will be”, Yes, Minister’s Sir Humphrey Appleby advised. There are as-yet-undiscovered tribes living in the remotest valleys of the Amazon who know what the findings of the WHO’s investigation into the origins of and response to the Wuhan
The situation with China is deteriorating as the Western and regional Asian nations struggle with how to respond to the latest political developments emanating from China. The Chinese state is built on the importance of the North China Plain for its development. This is where historically the most fertile land
