God help me, I agree with Innes Willox for once: A leader of a powerful business group has called for a better alignment of the nation’s economic and strategic interests, urging Australian companies to resist bullying from China and for diplomats to get “their hands dirty’’ by helping to find alternative export markets. Australian Industry
Via CCP mouthpiece, The Global Times: The price of liquefied natural gas (LNG) has surged to record highs in recent tradings, with the weekly spot price assessment settled at an all-time-high price of $21.45 per million British thermal units. While most market analysts are focusing on the underlying market factors including seasonable price movement, a
Sir Fomo McSpruikerson is an expatriate billionaire and proud proprietor of The Strayan, a vanity media project designed to boost his assets. Josh Frydenberg announces dob-in line for Australians who haven’t bought an investment property Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has announced a new national dob-in line for Australians that are suspected of not owning an investment
Via Micheal Green at Foreign Policy: First, Campbell is widely recognized as an early and important architect of a strategy to build up alliances and partnerships to keep Beijing in check as Chinese power grew. In the mid-1990s, he was appointed as the senior U.S. Defense Department official on Asia, arriving with relatively little regional
Who knows? All of the evidence says not. But it needs to happen, at the AFR is former Costello staffer David Alexander: The benign view of the rise of authoritarian China, a view underpinning three decades of policymakers pressing for ever greater integration with that country, suffered a mortal blow when the superpower handed over
Today I posted an article which suggested that former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has been traveling the world acting on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party ‘day in, day out’. It also imputed that Mr Rudd is seeking to influence governments both here in Australia and elsewhere as an agent of the Chinese Communist Party.
Via The Australian: China has accused Australia of “weaponising the concept of national security’’ after a $300 million bid by a Chinese state-owned company to buy a construction company was scuppered by Josh Frydenberg. China State Construction Engineering Corporation pulled its nearly $300m bid for the Australian-based but South African-owned Probuild after the Treasurer indicated
Via SMH: The Australian and New Zealand Society for Immunology says the federal government should immediately pause the planned rollout of the AstraZeneca vaccine because it may not be effective enough to generate herd immunity. Phase three clinical trials of the vaccine, which is the centrepiece of Australia’s vaccination strategy, show it is only 62
Via REIA: Australia’s housing market recorded respectable growth over 2020 and with limited stock and strong demand, 2021 should see further price increases, REIA President Adrian Kelly said. Mr Kelly said the winding back of Jobkeeper and Jobseeker may see temporary issues for tenants in some capital cities but the trend to relocate to the
Australia’s own brand of loons are upset, at The Australian: Senior Morrison government ministers have slammed the silencing of outgoing US president Donald Trump by social media giants after the pro-Trump siege of the Capitol. Josh Frydenberg and Acting Prime Minister Michael McCormack spoke out against Twitter’s decision to permanently ban Mr Trump days before
From Niall Ferguson at Bloomie: Major pandemics often coincide with religious or political contagions. In his “History of the Peloponnesian War,” Thucydides records how, during the plague that devastated Athens between 430 and 426 BC, people seemed to lose their moral compasses. …During the Black Death that swept across Europe in the 1340s, flagellant orders
Via the ABC’s number one CCP sympathiser, Stan Grant: This week’s insurrection in Washington has been shocking but not at all surprising. It’s part of a long deep unravelling of America. The angry mobs storming the Capitol building reflect a broken country where tens of millions of people have traded the American dream for American
Let’s hope so. Via Yahoo: The hostile relationship between Australia and China appears to be damaged beyond repair, a researcher and academic has declared. According to a recent analysis piece by Beijing Foreign Studies University’s Australian Studies Centre assistant professor Diane Hu, the incoming Biden presidency may reset America’s relationship with the Asian superpower, but
Grab those pearls! America is falling apart. If I have to read this one more time from some mainstream media hysteric then I will convert to Islam. America is not falling apart. Last week’s little riot in the US Capitol was prosecuted by a small number of frustrated, delusional loons. To describe it as an
Your Assistant Treasurer (and Minister for Housing) looking pretty matey with someone who may have allegiances to another nation. Australians need to look at just who is funding Australian political processes, and who else’s interests are being served by any such funding. YET ANOTHER SECURITY ISSUE OVER AN AUSTRALIAN POLITICIAN & SOMEONE WITH ACCESS
Sir Fomo McSpruikerson is an expatriate billionaire and proud proprietor of The Strayan, a vanity media project designed to boost his assets. NSW Police file missing person report for ABC journalist Ian Verrender ABC journalist Ian Verrender has been reported missing by NSW Police, exactly one week after penning an article critical of Australia’s relationship
The local CCP apologists always see Bejing “playing the long game”, even when all it is doing is following the blundering dictates of an angry tyrant. The Times: China is suffering mass power cuts in the south, prompting cities to dim street lights, suspend factory production and tell office blocks to turn off heating unless
Sir Fomo McSpruikerson is an expatriate billionaire and proud proprietor of The Strayan, a vanity media project designed to boost his assets. Stan Grant awarded Order of the Heroic Exemplar (Chinese: 英雄模范勋章) Veteran Australian journalist Stan Grant has been awarded The Order of the Heroic Exemplar (Chinese: 英雄模范勋章), China’s second-highest medal for services to the
The latest 538 polls have the US Georgia senate runoff vote tightening: My thoughts on this are pretty grave. If the Dems win then the shackles come off for stimulus, corrective class policies of higher wages, capital gains and corporate taxes. This will aid the party to bed down the swing in the mid-west “blue
Via the ABC: Australia’s media has faced “persistent efforts” by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to influence and censor content, according to a new report from an Australian think tank. In an analysis of 24 privately-owned Australian media organisations that produced news media in Chinese, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) found four had evidence
Clearly Hugh White thinks he is losing the China debate, which is true, except at the treasonous ABC. So, he’s changed his arguments. Until now, Hugh has followed a basic line of reasoning: China will grow faster than the US forever. That will give it a much larger economy in due course. Which will translate
First up, China has declared forever war on Aussie coal, at the ABC: Chinese state media appears to have confirmed that Beijing has blocked Australian coal imports, in a move which is likely to cost the economy billions of dollars and further inflame tensions between the two countries. Nationalistic state-owned tabloid The Global Times reports
From the sensible Ian Verrender at the ABC: So, what’s Plan B? For Australian exporters suddenly caught in the headlights of an increasingly hostile regime in Beijing, the answer, it appears, is: there isn’t one. If it hasn’t sunk in quite yet, the chances of a rapprochement are slimming by the day and any chance of
Sigh. A CCP brainwashed Stan Grant again on the weekend: Why do we hear so much about the liberal global order, when the truth is, it never existed? It was never a global order and it was not liberal. The phrase itself is a modern invention coming into vogue really only in recent decades, yet
What started the Pacific war? Martial Japanese expansionism. But what was the actual moment when Japan decided to pull the trigger? It was this: A series of events led to the attack on Pearl Harbor. War between Japan and the United States had been a possibility that each nation’s military forces planned for in the
The ABC has made an extraordinary editorial decision to support the CCP in its attack on Australia. I cannot emphasise enough how outrageous this is. Taxpayer dollars are now being recycled as a propaganda campaign to end freedom for taxpayers. Needless to say, this is an unprecedented collapse of journalistic ethics at Australia’s national broadcaster.
I can’t vouch for this list from News: Australians are being urged to steer clear of 41 Australian wineries after a viral list revealed they were actually owned by Chinese companies. …it does not reveal crucial details such as what percentage of each winery is owned by Chinese companies, and many social media users pointed
More Chinese trade war on Australia today with timber and wheat joining various other agribusiness products. Yawn. It’s not all bad news by a long shot. The trade war has also played a key role in putting a rocket under the iron ore price as traders price in a geopolitical risk premium not unlike oil
As we know, ScoMo’s vaccine choice is a little bit dodgy: Goodness. The Director of Government Affairs at Scott Morrison’s suddenly favourite new drug company AstraZeneca is former federal govt lobbyist Kieran Schneemann. He’s also a former Chief of Staff in the Liberal party. Not that there’s anything wrong with that at all. ▫️ pic.twitter.com/wRIIj4IDIj
Via Sinocism: As China-Australia Ties Worsen, Iron Ore Remains Bulletproof – Bloomberg China has few alternatives as it seeks to stimulate its economy post Covid-19 through infrastructure investment, with Australia accounting for more than half of iron ore shipments globally. If Beijing were to try to purchase solely from non-Australian producers, at best it could
