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WILMINGTON, DELAWARE - JANUARY 08: U.S. President-elect Joe Biden delivers remarks after he announced cabinet nominees that will round out his economic team, including secretaries of commerce and labor, at The Queen theater on January 08, 2021 in Wilmington, Delaware. Biden announced he is nominating Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo as his commerce secretary, Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh his labor secretary and Isabel Guzman, a former Obama administration official, as head of the Small Business Administration. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==

Six steps Biden should take immediately

America has lost its moral compass. As president, Joe Biden must use it to avoid stumbling into a canyon — or risk being led back into the swamp.

Paul Monk

INQUIRERInquirer

TOPSHOT - WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 06: A protester sits in the Senate Chamber on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Congress held a joint session today to ratify President-elect Joe Biden's 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump. Pro-Trump protesters have entered the U.S. Capitol building after mass demonstrations in the nation's capital. Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by WIN MCNAMEE / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)

It’s time to address the truth of President Trump

Ancient history and modern sensibility advise that Donald Trump be removed immediately.

Paul Monk

CommentaryInquirer

(190105) -- BEIJING, Jan. 5, 2019 (Xinhua) -- Xi Jinping takes a public oath of allegiance to the Constitution in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, March 17, 2018. Xi was elected Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China at the first session of the 13th National People's Congress, the national legislature. (Xinhua/Ju Peng)

Five steps to rebalancing China policy

There can be no return to the naive strategy implicit in our relations with China in recent decades. That jig is up.

Paul Monk

US electionInquirer

TOPSHOT - US President Donald Trump waves as he leaves after speaking during a Make America Great Again rally at Eppley Airfield October 27, 2020, in Omaha, Nebraska. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

Australia’s future is at stake in the US election

The US unipolar moment is over and a transition to a new global order is under way. Trump’s victory in 2016 was just a symptom.

Paul Monk

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Soldiers wearing face masks amid the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic listen to an address by Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen during her visit to a military base in Tainan, southern Taiwan, on April 9, 2020. - Taiwan currently has just 375 confirmed Covid-19 patients and five deaths despite its close proximity and trade links with China where the pandemic began, but the island and its 23 million inhabitants remain locked out of the World Health Organisation (WHO) and other international bodies after Beijing ramped up its campaign to diplomatically isolate Taiwan and pressure it economically and militarily. (Photo by Sam Yeh / AFP)

Attitude adjustment required on both sides over Taiwan

The clouds of war have been building up ominously in the Taiwan Strait but the ways of diplomacy lack relevance today.

Paul Monk

INQUIRERInquirer

HONG KONG, CHINA - JULY 01: Demonstrators take part in a protest against the new national security law on July 1, 2020 in Hong Kong, China. Hong Kong marks the 23rd anniversary of its handover to China on July 1 after Beijing imposed the new national security law. (Photo by Anthony Kwan/Getty Images)

Why we need to resist Beijing’s bullying

There has been a sea change in our relations with China but Australia is right to offer asylum to Hongkongers.

Paul Monk

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28/06/2019 Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison meets with President Xi Jinping during the G20 in Osaka, Japan on June 28, 2019. Picture: Adam Taylor Adam Taylor/PMO

China’s hidden hand: this isn’t paranoia

China’s espionage is unparalleled and its plan to detach Australia from the US is real. Read this book. It will knock your socks off.

Paul Monk

Commentary

HONG KONG, CHINA - JULY 01: Riot police detain a man as they raise a warning flag during a demonstration against the new national security law on July 1, 2020 in Hong Kong, China. Hong Kong marks the 23rd anniversary of its handover to China on July 1 after Beijing imposed the new national security law. (Photo by Anthony Kwan/Getty Images)

Now it’s one country, one system

Beijing cracks down on freedoms in Hong Kong in an echo of Hitler’s move on Austria in 1938.

Paul Monk

Commentary

20/02/1997 WIRE: Anti-government protester standing in front of artillery tanks in Tiananmen Square during pro-democracy protests 05 Jun 1989. 1980s demonstration tank /China/Internal/affairs

Lest we forget China’s bloody day of shame

More was lost than innocent lives in the appalling massacre at Tiananmen Square.

Paul Monk

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China's President Xi Jinping (C) walks around the Monument to the People's Heroes on Tiananmen Square during a wreath-laying ceremony marking Martyrs' Day at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on September 30, 2019. (Photo by MADOKA IKEGAMI / POOL / AFP)

PM threatens to expose China

Communist revolution in China had only one justification — setting the Chinese people free. Australia’s call for an inquiry threatens to expose a fraud that dwarfs COVID-19.

Paul Monk

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