What the US most resents about China is that it is successful in delivering results for its own people and resists US interference.
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Category: China
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Arrogant US resents China for resisting its ‘right’ to interfere
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Bilateral bright spot: the future of Australian studies in China
The largest Australian studies community in the world is in China. This augurs well for Beijing-Canberra relations, despite current tensions.
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The West’s diplomatic boycott of Winter Olympics is gold-medal hypocrisy
This petty action squanders an opportunity for positive engagement and is rooted in a sense of anxiety about the rise of a non-Western nation.
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‘Genocide’ finding over treatment of Uyghurs is overreach
The independent Uyghur tribunal has no legal standing, and its findings are not as strong as the Western media has made out.
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Why the West must tread carefully in assessing China
By downplaying China’s strength, commentator Paul Dibb ignores contemporary realities and underlines the subjectivity of strategic assessments.
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China’s belligerence in the South China Sea is backfiring
Its illegal actions and attempts at intimidation are fostering resentment among South-East Asian nations — and playing into the hands of the US.
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Hawkish US Global Posture Review speaks obscurely and carries a big stick
The US’s national defence strategy calls for regional policing in the Indo-Pacific. The fixation is on China and the spotlight is on Australia. (more…)
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Between watch dog and guard dog: the China threat and the Australian media
What is the role of Australian media, especially news media, in shaping a sense of who we are as a nation, amidst talk of a Cold War with China?
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Relax Mr Dutton, China is not an invading power (like US and us)
The defence minister fails to acknowledge the superpowers’ efforts to calm tensions, or that the US has jumped in to claim some of our former markets.
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Australia’s twisted Taiwan foreign policy fetish
Australian politicians’ Taiwan fetish shows their bloodlust is unquenchable. It’s another iteration of the Cold War.
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Strategists admit West is goading China into war
US military experts say a war over Taiwan is desirable, because Asia’s growth to become world’s economic heartland has become unstoppable.
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China trade: the disturbing gap between US rhetoric and reality is emerging
The fervid declarations of US support for Australia amid China’s trade sanctions count for little: the data shows Australia stands alone in paying the costs.The US does not have our back. It is grabbing our markets in China. (more…)
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Shutting down ASPI: Hugh White, Peter Jennings and China
In responding to Hugh White’s analysis of the cost of a war over Taiwan, ASPI’s Peter Jennings makes the case for just how irrelevant his organisation is.
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Lv Shun: The Chinese port where a new world order emerged
Before World War I, a Japanese victory over Russia in the Chinese port of Lv Shun was the first such victory by an Asian power over a European power.
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What is Xi Jinping to the Chinese people?
Many analysts assert that since Xi Jinping became the Secretary General of the CCP, China has become increasingly assertive in its foreign policy.
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China-Australia relations: A way out of the freeze?
China’s stated wish to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement on Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) could, if we are skilful, give us a path to promote the restoration of more normal diplomatic relations.
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US-China tariff stoush fosters a protection racket. Australia is on the ‘hit list’
The wrecking ball Trump took to the global trading system is still swinging, with implications for Australian trade and even the survival of the WTO. (more…)
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Postcard from Shanghai: Prospects are sunny, hope the cloud passes
Businesspeople in this bustling Chinese commercial hub have never seen the China-Australia relationship in such disrepair. (more…)
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Morrison turns China ‘threat’ into an election wedge
Borrowing from the Vietnam War-era Coalition playbook, the prime minister is putting domestic politics ahead of long-term policy for dealing with Beijing.
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The most remarkable aspect of Western attacks on China over Xinjiang is the unabashed hypocrisy
The US (abetted by the UK and Australia) in the so-called ”War on Terror”, has killed nearly 1 million Muslims in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Syria and Yemen.
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Yesterday President Xi Jinping discussed South China Sea with ASEAN leaders
Will the South China Sea Code of Conduct herald a new order? China will present a united front with ASEAN countries. The US may have other ideas. (more…)
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Liberals’ fear-mongering won’t be effective: former Australian diplomat
The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade claims that it “promotes and protects Australia’s international interests to support our security and prosperity.” I believe it has failed in this objective. (more…)
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Chinese takeaway from the Xi-Biden summit
The summit between Joe Biden and Xi Jinping taught us that Australian experts have misread the US’s relationship with China.
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Wang Huning, the Chinese Communist who understands America
But does anybody in Washington DC understand China like Wang Huning understands America? (more…)
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The one word that will stop sleepwalking our way to war over Taiwan.
Are we sleepwalking our way to war? Australia should be reminding China and the US that it’s vital to avoid conflict over Taiwan.
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Is Xi Jinping’s support as strong as his predecessors?
Chinese President Xi Jinping is central to the Communist Party, and also part of a historical trajectory that includes Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping.
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A Sino-US thaw would leave Australia stranded on a rock
As the US talks more about co-operation with China than competition, Australia’s lack of vision on China is on full display.
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Our White Man’s Media again hides important Australian news about China
China has just signed two major LNG contracts with US companies at the expense of Australia. There has been little mention of it in any Australian media. (more…)
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The origins of COVID-19: why we are still in the dark
The attempts to discover the truth about the origins of the pandemic have been undermined by secrecy, vested interests, suspicion, accusations and politics.
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What a relief to hear an Australian leader talking sense at last about China
The complex state of Beijing-Taipei relations that the anti-China hawks do not understand or probably worse don’t want to understand.