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Daryl Guppy

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US “blunt force trauma” trade strategy treated with Chinese acupuncture

US “blunt force trauma” trade strategy treated with Chinese acupuncture
23.01.2025 6

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Daryl Guppy

Australia must choose between economic prosperity and subservience to the US trade and military agenda

Australia must choose between economic prosperity and subservience to the US trade and military agenda
21.01.2025 6

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Daryl Guppy

Setting ASEAN glue

Setting ASEAN glue
09.01.2025 6

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The US is about to launch an open attack on global trade stability. Can China defend the existing order?

The threat by president-elect Trump to place 100% tariffs on any country that backs any other currency to replace the US dollar is an open attack...

20.12.2024 10

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Options for global trade

Australia and the United States believe China is hegemonic. China uses a different approach to international engagement, and that means Australia...

08.12.2024 5

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From non-aligned Indonesia, a picture paints a thousand misunderstandings

There is more to the eye in the official photo and video of Indonesia President Prabowo on the phone to President-elect Trump. Australia misses the...

23.11.2024 3

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Gaza rots the soul

Gaza – what can we do about Australia’s complicity in this abhorrence? It is a question that rots the soul… Indiscriminate destruction of...

20.11.2024 2

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APEC – Disintegration or defiance?

The APEC Peru agenda has been hijacked by the spectre of a Trumpian attack on its foundational principles. China provides the only viable...

15.11.2024 2

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Penny Wong’s fig leaf reveals more than it hides

Around 1541 the “Fig Leaf Campaign” was begun by Catholic fundamentalist, Cardinal Carafa. Between 1758 and 1759, Pope Clement XIII delicately...

28.09.2024 3

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Paging a new rogue state- state sponsored terrorism

Exploding pagers and two-way radios. What a brilliant act of ….. state-sponsored terrorism. Or a classic destruction of an adversary’s command...

23.09.2024 20

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Aiding and abetting and war crimes

The participation of four Israeli arms companies in the Land Forces International Land Defence Exposition in Melbourne is a clear instance of the...

15.09.2024 10

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Steady as she goes

China’s Third Plenum consolidated the significant changes in policy direction foreshadowed in previous quietly implemented policy designed to...

04.08.2024 1

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