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BEIJING, CHINA - JULY 01: Chinese students wave party and national flags at a ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of the Communist Party on July 1, 2021 at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)

Tiger’s roar masks dangerous fragility

Our Home Affairs secretary copped some flak recently for declaring ‘the drums of war’ were beating in Asia. Xi Jinping himself has just beaten those drums loudly.

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Euthanasia generic.

Why I believe in the concept of a ‘good death’

As a survivor of a long battle with cancer, I take issue with crucial aspects of the anti-euthanasia argument.

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A screen shows Chinese President Xi Jinping delivering a speech via video for the opening ceremony of the 3rd China International Import Expo (CIIE) at a media centre in Shanghai on November 4, 2020. (Photo by STR / AFP) / China OUT

Our China strategy is out of date

Beijing seeks to bully because it lacks the capacity to lead. Our strategy must play on this.

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hinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, has attended the commissioning ceremony of three naval vessels, the Changzheng-18, the Dalian, and the Hainan. SOURCE: CGNT

China will outflank us if we don’t get smart

China is not al-Qa’ida or Islamic State, or even Saddam Hussein. For years, Xi Jinping’s leading planners have been working on ways to win a war with the West without fighting.

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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.

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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.

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(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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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