Some Australian media recently provided a platform for false Taiwanese views about the one-China policy. Here are the reasons they are wrong. (more…)
Category: China
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Lunar New Year predictions for Xi and Trump
The Year of the Snake begins on 29 January. Over the next couple of weeks, fortune tellers will flood the press with their views, each with as much weight and reliability as the mottos in fortune cookies.
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“Nothing like before” — China is out-competing the West on EVs
The West is accusing China of “overcapacity” to blame it for its own industrial demise. (more…)
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The US sees China through the dark mirror of its own unbridled aggression
As China grows and prospers many in the US want us to believe that China will follow the same path that the US itself pursued – global military aggression, the overthrow of numerous governments around the world and persecution of minorities at home. (A repost from February 2023.)
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Best of 2024: Why do Chinese EVs meet so much resistance?
There was a time when the world looked to China to reduce its emissions. China was, they quite rightly pointed out, one of the globe’s worst polluters. (more…)
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US cyber weapon can ‘frame other countries’ for its own espionage operations
China’s National Computer Virus Emergency Response Centre on Monday released its latest report on Volt Typhoon, once again exposing cyber espionage and disinformation operations conducted by US government agencies, including a US cyber weapon that can mislead investigation and frame other countries for its own cyber espionage activities. (more…)
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Trump has been Beijing’s most effective science talent recruiter
Many fear the supposedly defunct ‘China Initiative’ – a racial profiling programme targeting Chinese-born scientists in the US – could return with a vengeance. (more…)
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Western Media: an echo chamber for the US “Uighur Genocide” narrative
Let me directly address the narrative pushed by the United States and its allies regarding the alleged “genocide” of Uighurs in China’s Xinjiang province. This narrative is not only riddled with inconsistencies but reeks of the same imperialist strategies the U.S. has employed for decades to destabilise dozens of nations and advance its own geopolitical ambitions. (more…)
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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 on global trade stability. (more…)
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‘China’s Pearl’: Macao 25 years after return to China
Zhongshan, where I live, is only about 40 kilometres as the crow flies from the Special Administrative Region of Macao, described as “China’s Pearl” by Xi Jinping. The name is apt, Macao sits at the entry of the Pearl River opposite Hong Kong and has, in recent years, shown both robust growth and remarkable stability.
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Uyghur separatists claimed to be key player in Assad’s fall
Wait, aren’t these the very same Uyghur separatists that the US State Department said they had “no credible evidence” existed, and that Mike Pompeo decided to remove from the US’s list of terrorist organisations in 2020? (more…)
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Taiwan’s former parliamentary speaker proposes “separate jurisdictions, one sovereignty”
Wang Jin-pyng says not to abandon “the opportunity for people on both sides to jointly pursue the well-being of the Chinese nation,” and respect the separate jurisdictions across the Strait. If world peace really hinges on, as many claim, what happens across the Taiwan Strait, you’ll have to bear with me for more posts on the seemingly niche subject.
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Is Trump’s long shadow a chance for the Australia-China relationship?
China has recently praised Australia’s independent foreign policy, with Xi Jinping and Anthony Albanese holding friendly talks at the G20 and planning a future meeting in China. This highlights Beijing’s effort to court traditional US allies amid concerns over a potential second Donald Trump term in the White House. (more…)
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AUKUS is an intergenerational disaster. It will cause long term detriment to Australia’s security
Australia is a part of a hostile military alliance directed at China. “Interoperability” or “interchangeability” means we’re now a US pawn, tied to its coattails. So that’s the job of every Australian: push for more information, keep talking about why AUKUS is an utter disaster and why it commits us to a costly and dangerous trajectory. (more…)
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China holds the world’s climate future in its hands
China has experienced “the greatest development surge in human history driven above all by an unprecedented and spectacular surge in urbanisation,” writes historian Adam Tooze. “As a physical productive apparatus China completely dwarfs the United States (and any other comparator)”. It is the nation that holds the world’s climate future in its hands, writes Patrick Mazza.
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The AUKUS delusion just got worse
Much has been written in these pages about the AUKUS delusion: Of how it was haphazardly and secretly put together by Scott Morrison to wedge the then Labor Opposition, about the elasticity of its costings, the improbability of Australia ever acquiring any of the proposed submarines, the enormous cost of the project, the effectiveness of it as best means of defence, indeed whether defence is actually its raison d’etre, and the loss of Australian sovereignty it brings. (more…)
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Biden Pardons his son: The US “rules based order” in action
When I’m asked what I think of Biden granting a pardon to his son for offences, which Biden himself has spoken openly about as deserving of prison, I don’t have much to say. On the same day, I see criticism of China because a senior military official has been removed from his post and is under investigation. The two things are about as incompatible as it gets. (more…)
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China speaks for conscience of the world at UN over horror in Gaza
Disgraceful veto of draft ceasefire resolution by US coincides with arrest warrants by International Criminal Court for Israeli pair on war crimes. (more…)
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“A position of fear”: Economics, security, and Australia’s China debate
I feel like I have been operating from a position of fear in Australia’s China debate, and I don’t want to anymore. I don’t want my country to be operating from a position of fear, and we have, writes Amy King. (more…)
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Obtuse China Policy and the “International Rules-Based Order” in a Trumpian world
In the ballyhooed, strident context of Trumpian change, if not, hysterical disruption, it is especially important to pinpoint and consider the real and the “factually alternative” content of Chinese foreign policy and international relations.
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Time to take China and Latin America more seriously
The invitation said: ‘Global Multinational Corporations Summit.’ Main Topic: ‘An opening China and the World.’ (more…)
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Deputy Director of CASS Institute of Finance warns against excessive security concerns
Zhang Ming: China must not sacrifice development for security. For a large developing country like China, development is the greatest security. (more…)
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Trump’s wake-up call to Australia’s leaders
Trump’s anti-China 60% import tax barrier will weaken China’s economy and is predicted to have flow on effects impacting negatively on Australia’s economy. Will our political leaders now realise that Australia’s involvement in a military war against China for which they are furiously preparing, would have a devastating impact on our economy and Australian life generally as all trade with China would cease in such a scenario? (more…)
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The American-style Cultural Revolution is taking root in the US
Trump’s shocking cabinet picks are reminiscent of what Mao Zedong did after launching the tumultuous Cultural Revolution in 1966. Under his slogan “revolution is no crime; to rebel is justified,” Mao encouraged the firebrand Red Guards and grassroots loyalists to take over power at central and local government levels across the country, writes Wang Xiangwei. (more…)
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America, We are out of your China fight
Australia must leave the China debacle, constructively. In withdrawing from America’s aggression against China, we should offer our diplomacy as a patient bridge between China and the US. That will take time. America will become even more extreme before it considers peaceful coexistence with China. Meanwhile our action will be a moderating influence, as we pick up our own distracted security priorities. (more…)
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A five-minute scroll
Not being reported? President Xi Jinping gives President Joe Biden boundaries. Jason Clare MP says you can’t bomb your way to peace while a Gaza Psychiatrist shares footage of bodies in Gaza. Peter Garrett calls out AUKUS and Senator Barbara Pocock supports the issues raised by Senator Lidia Thorpe. Footage of Keir Starmer from 2014 on devastation on Croatia reveals a different approach than the British government is showing to Gaza. (more…)
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AUKUS, the China threat and Chinese-Australian communities
The recent election of Donald Trump to the US presidency has cast further doubt on the feasibility of the AUKUS trilateral security partnership, particularly Australia’s acquisition of nuclear submarines under Pillar I. Yet the AUKUS trilateral security partnership has become a fait accompli without the Australian public having expressed much in the way of opposition, or even a desire for more information about the program forecast to cost up to $368 billion, despite a lack of debate or public consultation by successive Australian governments. (more…)
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Grinding the axis
Axis is a four-letter word that should be banned or at least binned for the time being. The US uses the term in a distinctly hostile way, and now Andrew Shearer, Australia’s chief security adviser, has adopted the same language. (more…)
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A five-minute scroll
Trump returns to the presidency, while an IDF soldier congratulates the win by shooting at homes in Gaza. Francesca Albanese tells Canada that international laws has no space for excuses and thanks Rabbi’s for joining her in New York. Israel bombs Lebanon’s Baalbek raising concern for UNESCO sites. Chris Hedges speaks to the Democrats loss, raising the importance of not ignoring your own base, while Mary Kostakidis warns of the lessons to be learned as the Albanese government approaches Australia’s 2025 election. UK’s Jonathan Pie unpacks the Democrat loss in brutal truths, while Bernie Sanders says it should come as no surprise. George Yeo speaks to understanding why China doesn’t have western-like hegemonic aspirations. The genocide and starvation of people in Gaza continues. (more…)
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The China Threat has now become the Chussia Anxiety
The West need not fear a Chussia aligned against it. It instead needs to develop geopolitical strategies to deal with China as the dominant power in Eurasia. For like the United States at the end of the nineteenth century when it consolidated its borders and established hegemony in the Western Hemisphere, China has consolidated its security in Eurasia and is now free to project power globally. (more…)