Comrade Dan’s visit to Beijing the wrong message
Beijing’s systematic anti-transparency and Xi’s embrace of Putin have done nothing to dampen Daniel Andrews’ enthusiasm for amity with Beijing.
Beijing’s systematic anti-transparency and Xi’s embrace of Putin have done nothing to dampen Daniel Andrews’ enthusiasm for amity with Beijing.
The lesson to learn from the Iraq war is not that the US is a rogue power in decline, but that effective, democratic grand strategy demands very high levels of thinking.
Let’s indulge our sharp-tongued former PM for a moment and imagine he is seeing something that almost everyone else is missing.
It’s not enough to win the war, the West also has to offer Russia the hope of a better future.
It is the Emperor’s birthday, but the celebration underlies the seismic movements causing earth tremors across the Indo-Pacific.
For anyone who continues to give the Russian tyrant the slightest benefit of doubt, this explosive account of his decades-long reign of terror is required reading.
The hard-heads say don’t hold your breath. But if we put it in the perspective, not only of recent Chinese history but of global history, the demonstrations look encouraging.
Their spies, agents of influence and fellow travellers are numerous and our intelligence capacities are stretched to the limit.
As the result of a ‘nightmare’ epiphany, there is truth-telling in the People’s Republic of Amnesia.
A recent stay in a public hospital drove home the need for reforms to pave the way for the budget to handle increased spending on both.
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