Category: International Issues
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Why China is beating the West
China will end up beating the west. That is my prediction, and I am not even going to label it as a bold prediction since there is unfortunately little to convince me that this is not inevitable. Why will China win? Because the west has stopped believing in the values that made it great in…
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Australia must reduce its economic reliance on China
They purchase 35 percent of our exports and provide us with 24 percent of our imports. They own 3 percent of our agricultural land and they are our biggest customer for commodities, education and tourism. Put simply, Australia relies on China for its economic prosperity. And this is dangerous. Yes, Australia has experienced several benefits…
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Despite everything, Trump will win.
Donald Trump will win the 2020 election. He will win it despite everything. Despite the climbing American death toll due to the COVID-19, despite his ambivalent response, despite his bizarre musing that injecting disinfectant could act as a cure for the virus, he will win. COVID-19 won’t hurt Trump politically. In fact, it will do…
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Celebrities won’t perform at Trump’s inauguration? No one actually cares…
Apparently Beyoncé refuses to perform at Trump’s inauguration. Celine Dion said no as well, as have a long list of A-list celebrities. Jay-Z, Kanye, Katy Perry, Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake, the list goes on. The media have had a field day. Many organisations, including The Independent, CNN, The New York Times, among others, have saturated…
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Brexit and Trump should signal the end of Left and Right politics
Barely able to hide is unbridled glee, UKIP leader Nigel Farage hailed Brexit as a victory for “ordinary people, for good people, for decent people.” For a man associated with the hard-Right of politics, it’s strange that such sentiments sit neatly with Marxist working class triumphalism. Brexit, and the Donald Trump phenomenon in the United…
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Let not their ignorance triumph over our reason
“What do the terrorists want us to do? They want to get the community to demonise the whole Australian Muslim community. Those people who want to attack Muslims in general, attack Islam in general, are doing the terrorists’ work. Because the strategy of the terrorists is to enrage the broader community (to attack Muslims) which…
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Fear flying recently? Don’t.
In recent weeks you would be forgiven for developing a new apprehension for flying – given the news about the vanishing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, the shot down flight 17 over Ukraine, and most recently, Air Algerie’s Flight 5017 crash in Mali. It goes without saying that the above incidents are tragic and obviously deserving…
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How many more lives before the US finally changes its gun laws?
There are some things in history we collectively look back on with a shake of the head and wonder how humanity could be so stupid for so long. Strangely enough, the rest of the world watches with dismay at something we already know to be deadly, anachronistic and embarrassing: America’s gun laws. You know, there…