The Morrison government recently announced that it was lowering the threshold for screening foreign acquisitions in Australia to $0. Treasurer Josh Frydenberg promised that all foreign investments would be scrutinised to protect the national interest. Politicians such as Pauline Hanson and George Christensen have expressed little confidence in the Foreign
George There are five countries which are communist states. They are China, Cuba, Laos, Vietnam and North Korea. (The government of Russia is a federal semi-presidential republic). But I will include it in this analysis as it is, to all intents and purposes, a communist state. Earlier this morning
President Trump has announced that the U.S. will cut off funds to the World Health Organization. He has criticised its response to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Are you convinced that China has this pandemic under control, are you looking to China for guidance when dealing with this pandemic? Let me help pull the wool from your eyes… This video states that China ‘didn’t care’ about the danger of Chinese outbound flights [with likely many Wuhan
Matt Ridley’s reputation is dichotomous: on the one hand, he is indelibly stained in the minds of many with the failure of Northern Rock bank – one of the first rumbles of the Global Financial Crisis. On the other hand, Ridley has a well-deserved reputation as a journalist: science
Luisa Cortesi Our elders are dying one by one, oak trees struck down by an acceleration of greed and skepticism. The generation that was raised in the angst of World War II is gone. Coffins, too many to bury. Lined up at the Monumental Cemetery, in churches, in convoys in
The Coronavirus has put the spotlight on three people in high places who are not up to carrying out the tasks their positions demand. Two are attached to political institutions and one is a Prime Minister. The Prime Minister has a goal of also being a member of one of
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The United Nations was once held up as a beacon of hope for a world ruined by global war and living under the threat of nuclear annihilation. Now, it’s just a sick joke, at best. The abject failures of the UN have been piling up for decades, whether it’
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
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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
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
