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Pearls and Irritations

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Breaking the deadlock in Japan-North Korean relations

To break the deadlock in Japan-North Korea relations, Japan’s new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, has proposed liaison offices in the capitals of...

27.10.2024 10

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Who really owns the South China Sea?

We are told the AUKUS ‘security partnership’ with the US and UK requires Australia to acquire a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines (SSNs) to...

18.10.2024 10

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Japan’s surprising new prime minister

Japan’s new prime minister, Ishiba Shigeru, has called for an Asian NATO. But salivating hawks should restrain the glee. For two reasons. For...

04.10.2024 10

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A solution in Ukraine?

There must be a negotiated end to the Ukraine War. The alternative is nuclear armageddon. The Russian demands are more negotiable than realised....

16.09.2024 10

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Japan – Hiroshima and Project Hula

What a difference a day (or a week) makes. What a difference the mere translation of a word makes. As the war against Japan in the Pacific began to...

09.08.2024 8

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Panic as Japan stocks take biggest dive since Black Monday, 1987

If it was panic last Friday, the Asahi Shimbun declared when the stock market fell more than 2,200 points, or 5.8 percent. It was double panic by this...

05.08.2024 6

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Putin’s mistake in Ukraine: Moscow forced to move to Novosibirsk?

In 2004, Russia’s President Putin said the collapse of the Soviet Union   “was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.” This was...

17.07.2024 10

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NYT confirms war-ending Russian-Ukraine peace agreement sabotaged by West [ready]

With much less drama than its famous 1971 Pentagon Papers, the New York Times has disclosed three documents confirming that Russia and Ukraine were...

26.06.2024 10

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BBC reporting on Ukraine

The BBC has a loose bolt somewhere. It has now begun a strange campaign saying it is dedicated to non-spin reporting. The slogan is ‘Absolutely...

14.06.2024 10

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The Kremlin needs a new PR agent

16.05.2024 10

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Marking 10 years of the Russo-Ukraine War

On February 28, 2022, four days after Russia had attacked into Ukraine, Moscow and Kiev began peace talks. The Russian attack had aimed to force...

21.04.2024 20

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“Seamless integration”: Japan to become sub-contractor for US aggression towards China

‘New era for alliance’ headlined the right wing Japan Times after the Japan-US summit talks in Washington this week between President Biden and...

16.04.2024 10

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Japan’s abductions myths have kept a nation in poverty for decades

How can it happen that a person who probably no longer exists can keep an entire nation, North Korea, in poverty for more than twenty years, and the...

11.04.2024 10

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Western hawks continue to see North Korea as a target for attack

With Japan’s former prime minister, Shinzo Abe, assassinated, Japan’s current prime minister, Fumio Kishida, has been saying he wants direct talks...

04.04.2024 10

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Lunacy: Australia pays the US billions to “keep those Chinese at bay”

When Canberra told us we had to join the US in its cruel attempt to prevent a Vietnamese peasant army from overthrowing a US-armed Saigon government,...

26.03.2024 10

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The failure of Western on-the-ground war reporting

On the ground reporting by Western media of the Russia-Ukraine conflict has been weak. Most have a pro-Ukrainian bias and prefer to operate from...

19.03.2024 10

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Hiding in plain sight – Malaysian Airlines flight 370

As we approach the tenth anniversary of the 2014 disappearance of flight 370, Malaysian Airlines, we are getting the usual barrage of media...

06.03.2024 4

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Can war on the Korean Peninsula be averted?

The US seems to have decided it cannot tolerate China as a threat to its global hegemony. But how to attack or put pressure on China? Logistically...

03.03.2024 10

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Cautious, middle of the road wisdom won’t solve Asia’s problems

The recent Statement from former Australian Foreign Ministers Gareth Evans and Bob Carr calling for Australia to play a role in seeking detente...

03.02.2024 10

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Slovakia, Hungary criticise western values, halt support for Ukraine

Slovakia is the poor relation created when the former Czechoslovakia divided in 1993 into the Czech and Slovak Republics. The Czech Republic has hewn...

21.01.2024 10

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Gut instincts and North Korean relations

Between years 2000 and 2018 the North Korea and South Korea governments issued three joint declarations all promising South Korean economic aid to...

09.01.2024 10

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Two grievous Australian policy mistakes-Israel and China

Where fear of China is involved there is no conscience for the mistakes of the past. Nor can we expect any sensibility in the plans for the future. ...

06.01.2024 8

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A fatal blow for Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida

The latest Japanese political scandal involving at least four top government ministers and numerous junior officials is widely seen as a fatal blow to...

17.12.2023 9

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The unflinching cruelty of Henry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger’s death has brought a flow of predictable judgements: ‘He created some evils – 1973 Chile, for example. But overall he helped...

07.12.2023 7

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