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Pearls and Irritations

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The terrifying parallels between 9/11 and Israel’s response to Oct. 7

The tragedy in the Middle East is that what Hamas’ Sinwar was to bin Laden, Israel is to America. Reading various accounts of Yahya Sinwar’s...

24.10.2024 10

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Israel has no place among the family of nations at the UN

Given its murderous attacks on UN staff in Gaza and declaration of its chief as ‘persona non grata’, it’s about time to invoke Article 6 of the...

20.10.2024 10

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So is this just how our great free press of the West really operates?

To appreciate the true magnitude of its disgrace, imagine the response if murdered Gazan journalist Hassan Hamad were an Uygur or a Tibetan. ...

13.10.2024 9

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As US ally blows up the Mideast, China preserves Asia’s prosperity

Launching Cold War 2.0 against a reluctant Beijing while enabling Israel to set fire to an entire region is now official American foreign policy. ...

04.10.2024 10

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The loss of global influence by the United States is China’s gain

The world doesn’t see an “indispensable nation” in America, only one that is ‘dysfunctional at home and pursuing naked self-interest abroad’...

10.09.2024 10

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What Albert Camus might think about Palestinian suffering and the West’s responsibility for it

Zionism has followed the twisted logic of a long line of modern ideologies that ended up committing mass murder. On the day when crime puts on the...

28.08.2024 10

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China and the US are facing parallel economic conundrums

Mutual economic quandaries as both try to reshape their economies may force the two bitter rivals to learn to live with each other again. All is...

16.08.2024 10

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Why US politicians are picking on Chinese Olympic swimmers

As with Washington’s routine attempts to challenge all things Chinese as well as global multilateral agencies, its row with the World Anti-Doping...

07.08.2024 6

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US military admits ‘missteps’ for anti-vax propaganda

US operations exploiting foreign vaccine programmes have time and again caused untold damage to the public health of countries targeted. Speaking...

04.08.2024 10

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Overproduction is OK as long as it’s done by anyone except China

It makes sense for Beijing to expand the services sector, but none for the US to transfer higher productivity in services to lower one in...

23.07.2024 30

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Vassalise allies, destabilise the rest is now US strategy in Indo-Pacific

Divide and conquer, well-honed in Middle East and Latin America over decades, is being applied to only real growth engine of world economy. A...

14.07.2024 10

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What kind of people threaten prosecutors?

Without naming names, a joint statement by 93 countries in a show of support for the International Criminal Court is an unmistakable rebuke of the...

24.06.2024 10

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US pawns: Taiwanese separatists should stop deluding themselves

The island’s current political status is as good as it gets, and any further military partnership with Washington will deliver only diminishing...

02.06.2024 10

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America’s criminal complicity in Palestine

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Playing defence Mini-Me for the US will cost Australia dearly

The complaint by Canberra about the latest Chinese military flare-up close to China’s coast is not only hypocritical but highly escalatory. An...

14.05.2024 30

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Palestine is the ‘red pill’ for America’s Gen Z

08.05.2024 50

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American hypocrisy over Tibet and Gaza boggles the mind

The world would be a better place if US politicians exercised the same conscientiousness over Palestine as they have over the Chinese autonomous...

02.05.2024 20

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China was never an imperialist state

During its long history, Chinese dynasties were as often the victims of outside aggression as they were invaders of foreign land. Was China ever an...

22.04.2024 10

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The United States leaves a mess in Ukraine, moves on to China

The US State Department’s No 2 now admits the AUKUS joint submarine project between three of the Five Eyes is tied to Taiwan and mainland China. ...

09.04.2024 20

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Everything Chinese is a national security threat to the United States

After the battles over 5G, social media and advanced microchips, Chinese electric cars are the new front line of US economic warfare. Like any...

29.03.2024 6

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Hong Kong is losing competitiveness to cities on the mainland

The danger Hong Kong faces is not that it might become ‘just another mainland city’, but that it is already subpar to many of its urban cousins...

17.03.2024 9

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Washington is the supporter of genocide who sits in judgment of others

China’s contrasting political repression and economic development in Tibet and Xinjiang does not hold a candle to US-sponsored state terrorism by...

25.02.2024 9

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The world is fighting back against a real genocide

Now we know how racial mass murders are committed by watching one live on our computer and TV screens. We live in an upside down world. Countries...

18.02.2024 9

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When celebrated dissidents find the grass isn’t greener on the other side

Ai Weiwei joins a long line of dissenters such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Liu Xiaobo who became disenchanted by the West. After criticising...

11.02.2024 5

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Quite literally, China builds while America bombs, and this study proves it

On Washington’s telling, Beijing is spreading authoritarianism through producing goods and building infrastructure around the world while the US is...

08.02.2024 20

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Mearsheimer: China cements diplomatic role as Palestinian genocide isolates US, Israel

John Mearsheimer, in an interview, also argues South Africa’s case of genocide against Israel before the ICJ will further isolate the Jewish state...

26.01.2024 7

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Look who’s committing genocide according to American media

China is guilty by investing in infrastructure, providing free education … and forcing tourists to pay to enter Xinjiang’s most sacred mosque. ...

25.01.2024 10

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Some journalists’ lives are worth more than others

In politics, there is often no reward, only penalty, for being right, especially when you go against the messaging of the ruling elites. Gonzalo...

22.01.2024 8

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American elites may fear Trump return, but the rest of us need not

The US has become a more dangerous nation and Donald 2.0, with his instinctive aversion to war, may even be less threatening to the world. Joe...

21.01.2024 10

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In Jimmy Lai’s case, the West has put itself on trial.

  Is Lai guilty or not? I have no idea. It’s not my job to decide or guess. Let the trial judge decide.I am an old-fashioned hack and prefer the...

02.01.2024 20

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How Western allies subvert international law and norms to ‘contain’ China

The US has been ruthlessly militarising what some Pentagon strategists have called the island chains of defence in the Indo-Pacific with quiet ‘Five...

08.12.2023 6

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