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Can Europe dare to do the smart thing and partner with China in Africa?

Can Europe dare to do the smart thing and partner with China in Africa?
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US’ ‘China Initiative’ would be counterproductive

US’ ‘China Initiative’ would be counterproductive
18.02.2025 9

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The lawless West

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Is America marching in the final footsteps of the British empire

30.01.2025 9

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How Europe is degrading in Europe

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Why Ukraine is losing ground

14.01.2025 10

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China and America in 2050

In early December, 2024, The University of Hong Kong (HKU) hosted a lucid dialogue entitled: “China in 2050 – Two Perspectives” .  The...

07.01.2025 7

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Will America ever curb its love of warfare?

After meeting Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky in Paris recently, US president-elect Donald Trump called for an immediate ceasefire in the...

29.12.2024 4

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Manufacturing consent with a pivotal signifier

Most of the world believes, today, that the Western use of the term, terrorism, is wilfully warped to advance a destructive political agenda.  This...

09.12.2024 4

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Chomsky is right says Professor Walt

The wide-ranging political views of the exceptional, international public intellectual, Noam Chomsky, have recently been searchingly assessed in...

06.12.2024 3

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Western democracy now finds itself in a parlous state

In 1947, former British prime minister Winston Churchill famously observed that: “Many forms of government have been tried, and will be tried in...

05.12.2024 3

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Foolish anxiety in the global west

Around 18 months ago, The Economist applied uncommon energy to advance the narrative that the US economy was in outstandingly good shape. Very...

15.11.2024 3

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“An integral part of China”: America, Taiwan and Elon Musk

The outcome in the recent US presidential election may yet push Taiwan in directions at variance with those advocated in a new article published in...

15.11.2024 10

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Remarkable Australian comparative analysis supports BDS

A very long line has been drawn between two dots: Israel and China, across what looks like a credibility chasm, by the vocal Australian Coalition...

03.11.2024 3

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Lessons for Hong Kong from Australia’s remarkable international education sector

One crucial policy initiative outlined by Hong Kong’s chief executive, John Lee Ka-chiu, in his latest annual Policy Address is the project to...

30.10.2024 3

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When the White House goes to war

Michael Hirsh, a prominent columnist for Foreign Policy has just published an instructive review in that journal (partial paywall) of Bob...

27.10.2024 4

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Sanitising genocide

The Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) has just published “The Most Moral Army”- an excoriating review of Israel’s continuous reliance on deceitful...

20.10.2024 3

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America selects green reverse gear

America was once a marketplace leader in so many areas. Now the US faces a range of pivotal global markets focused on a greener future, dominated...

18.10.2024 3

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From Guernica to Gaza

The bombing of the Basque town of Guernica, in Spain, in 1937 “heralded a terrible new age of warfare” that, almost 90 years later, remains...

14.10.2024 3

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The extraordinary warring states history of the global West

History confirms how the present, destructive militaristic culture of the US-led Atlantic alliance stands on the shoulders of well over a thousand...

07.10.2024 2

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The impact of China’s rising soft power

A recent article in the US journal Foreign Affairs, written by Daniel Mattingly of Yale University argues persuasively that: “China’s Soft Sell of...

02.10.2024 2

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Suppose Australia was more independent and less dumb

Look at how favourably situated Australia is in the world. As the foundations were put in place for the Asian Century, most profoundly by China,...

28.09.2024 2

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Look at who is running Israel

In a recent significant article in the US journal, Foreign Policy, David E Rosenberg, the economics editor of Haaretz, clarifies how a minority of...

12.09.2024 3

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Tucker Carlson and Jeffrey Sachs confirm mainstream Western media mostly a shabby cabaret

A recent, comprehensive social-media interview has provided an acute reminder of how hard it now is to imagine certain flagship, Western current...

04.09.2024 3

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American reflections on global hegemony

Some US commentators are advocating a recalibration of America’s full-spectrum global posture, while others, including Condoleezza Rice,...

28.08.2024 2

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Israel’s perilous decay

Stephen M Walt, Professor of International Relations at Harvard University, recently published an article in the leading US journal, Foreign...

24.08.2024 2

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Shocking news: China is kicking more global goals

Is China mired in economic misery while bogged down by old habits- or very successfully developing its exceptional manufacturing prowess as it...

13.08.2024 3

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The ill-starred consequences of America’s Chinese chip war

An interesting new article in the prominent American journal, “Foreign Affairs”, by three academics from Georgetown University, argues that “...

04.08.2024 5

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The great reversal: Britain and China

A fundamental reality, which this stimulating book stresses, is how significant British interaction with China pre-dates the British takeover of...

01.08.2024 2

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AUKUS submarine deal will damage Australia’s interests

The now-notorious AUKUS agreement was secretly conceived between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States prior to being publicly...

18.07.2024 8

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