Wednesday, 15 March 2023

Australia should seek security in Asia with its sovereignty, not ‘rubbish’ defence deals like Aukus: former PM Paul Keating

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The Aukus submarine deal, which could cost up to A$368 billion (US$245 billion), would be ineffective in the event of a war with China, Keat...
Tuesday, 10 January 2023

US, West ‘uncomfortable’ with changing world, view China as a threat: Singapore’s George Yeo

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George Yeo said the US and the West are ‘uncomfortable’ with the idea of a multipolar world given their long dominance The ex-foreign minist...
Monday, 14 November 2022

Why criticism of a third term for China’s Xi Jinping is rich coming from the US

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 Despite its clandestine interventions in China and elsewhere, America remains convinced of its exceptionalism and blind to how others perce...
Saturday, 22 October 2022

Singapore’s George Yeo hopes China will stay out of ‘long, dark tunnel’ as Russia and the West wade into nuclear talk

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The ex-foreign minister is hopeful China will ‘have the wisdom and the statecraft to avoid entering’ the Ukraine war as it would put the wo...
Tuesday, 18 October 2022

The American chip industry’s US$1.5t meltdown

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Thank the boom-and-bust cycle – and America’s government In licking County, Ohio, fleets of dump trucks and bulldozers are shifting earth on...
Saturday, 15 October 2022

中国人劣根性的例子

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以下几点为常见例子。 1.自己做不好、幹不来的事，也不希望别人做得来；幹得好，宁愿大家都不做，也不能让别人做得出色；幹得比自己好，你要是做了，他不是釜底抽薪，就是到处捣鼓你、设计你，让你不得安宁。  2.幸灾乐祸，落井下石。看别人笑话，是不少人的劣根。看到别人有了灾难，不是伸手拉...

Why China’s people no longer look up to America

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We Chinese once sought to learn from US successes; now we study its mistakes so that we can avoid them. Wang Wen My generation of Chines...
Wednesday, 28 September 2022

Japan then, China now: the US is resorting to economic rival-bashing tactics again

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The Plaza Accord, signed in New York in 1985, did its job of hobbling Japanese competitiveness and forcing a ‘hollowing out’ of the country’...
Wednesday, 21 September 2022

Has the Pentagon been caught using Twitter for pro-West disinformation?

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Facebook and Twitter have shut down dozens of fake accounts, suspecting they were created by the US military The Pentagon refuses to confirm...
Thursday, 14 July 2022

Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine must not be allowed to undo decades of Sino-German economic cooperation

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China is not Russia. Its economic ties with Germany run far deeper, and Berlin needs good relations with Beijing to retain its leading posit...

Russia’s war in Ukraine is more than just a battle of ‘good vs evil’

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Democracy is part of the story, but the truth is that Russia’s decision to invade Ukraine is complex and involves numerous factors Ignoring ...
Tuesday, 12 July 2022

China ‘not to blame’ for African debt crisis, it’s the West: study

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High-interest loans from private Western lenders account for most of the burden on countries in Africa, Britain’s Debt Justice charity finds...
Friday, 10 June 2022

In the eyes of others, the US is not the benign power it thinks it is

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Dani Rodrik America’s foreign policy goals are often self-serving, while its designs for a rules-based international order primarily reflect...
Sunday, 5 June 2022

Russia-Ukraine war: Europe failed by not building alliances with Asia

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Chandran Nair After outsourcing its security to the US and Nato, Europe now finds itself in a pseudo-proxy war. Asia should learn from this ...

American aggression needs to be reined in for the good of Asia and the world

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 Chandran Nair Decades of exceptionalism, ideological obsessions and a deep-rooted sense of superiority is catching up with the United State...
Wednesday, 25 May 2022

China's Gen Z has the power to make or break Western brands

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BLOOMBERG They’ve got money to burn, eschew foreign labels, and are driven by a swelling sense of nationalism that can ensnare even the bigg...