Asia
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Indian democracy is under siege. As India celebrates seventy-five years […]August 30, 2022
26 mins
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America has shut down and handed over Bagram Airfield, its […]
August 30, 2021
12 mins
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The CCP's great conceptual innovation in the post-Mao era has been to build on century-old fabrications to create a racialist nationalism that conveniently intertwines notions of 'China', 'the people', 'the government', 'the nation-state' and 'the Party'. The fact of the matter is that China has never been a nation-state in anything resembling the European senseApril 14, 2021
21 mins
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A 2018 study concludes that Taiwan on its own could fend off a Chinese invasion and it seems the People's Liberation Army believes the same. What must be considered is that Xi might launch an invasion, find he was losing and opt to go nuclear—or he might do so from the startApril 1, 2021
15 mins
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In a speech some months ago on the government’s 2020 […]
March 30, 2021
22 mins
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While COVID-19 has wrought havoc across the world, one of the things for which we can be thankful is that it has exposed the true and dangerous character of the the Chinese communist regime. And by 'China', lest someone cry 'Racist!', I mean the Chinese Communist Party, not the Chinese peopleJune 3, 2020
12 mins
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The stifling by China of democratic development didn’t prevent Hong Kong making one of the few successful transitions from Third World poverty to prosperity and modernisation, not only in Asia, but anywhere. On present trends, it looks set to make the journey in reverseJune 1, 2020
21 mins
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Australians who dream of relief from the uncomfortable China connection by closer ties with the “world’s biggest democracy”, of profitable access to a market of 1.3 billion consumers and of a free-market partner in world trade, had better re-assess their expectationsMay 5, 2020
17 mins
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It is hard to un-imagine the People’s Republic of China and its deleterious effect on our world. My wish – which might turn out to be as unlikely as the Russiagate fantasies of the mainstream media—is that one day the city of Wuhan will be associated with not only COVID-19 but also with the end of the communist dynasty in ChinaMay 2, 2020
16 mins
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Of course not, says Jean-Marie Bouissou in Les Leçons du […]
April 29, 2020
31 mins
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Australia, allegedly, is in peril because Sino-Australian relations went “down the gurgler” due to bunglers like Abbott, Turnbull, Morrison et al who are not sophisticated Sinologists like Kevin Rudd. Almost the opposite, I would argue. Australia is in peril because so-called China experts, such as Rudd, have been playedOctober 6, 2019
26 mins
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Overall, the new Indian writers show dreamers infected by the defining Western malady, a kind of anomie based on the unending search for individual and material gratification. Can East and West ever meet? On the evidence, they have long done so and give no sign of stopping any time soonJuly 19, 2019
21 mins
