China American Cold War

CCP mouthpiece, The Global Times, is up to its old tricks again today.

The drums of war are surrounding Taiwan.

There have not been many who have dared make the comparison between CCP China and Nazi Germany.

With crisis comes opportunity.

Precisely as forecast at MB, China’s trade war on Australia is really upon itself.

Ah Labor, the CCP’s favoured party Downunder: Shadow foreign affairs minister Penny Wong has succeeded in preventing the Labor policy platform from condemning Chinese “genocide” in Xinjiang.

Last week historian Niall Ferguson published an alarming article, both in its scope and in its depressing errors: A Taiwan conflict could be the equivalent of the Suez crisis for the British Empire when it was exposed as a paper tiger.

I have been pretty sanguine about this to date.

The daily insults visited upon Australia from China are not even worth covering these days.

As the Chinese illberal empire pushed outwards towards invading Taiwan, the pushback from the American liberal empire has been intensifying.

After twenty years of believing in Chinese liberalisation, or at least giving it the benefit of the doubt, the US left has realised that much of it was bull.

Malcolm Turnbull penned an excellent piece in the Nikkei yesterday on the history of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or “Quad’ as it is known.

Amid the inane babble and pained cries of the pro-China lobby, MB has always had a clear-eyed view of the future of the US in the Pacific.

The Quad is a long-term geo-political entity that includes four Indo-Pacific democracies in the US, Japan.

Via News: Australian National University academics Natasha Kassam and Darren Lim have peered into a metaphorical crystal ball to map out Australia’s likely future under a new world order.

One can view Australia’s economic relationship with China as evolving in two distinct phases.

There is a country without official recognition to whom it is time we gave diplomatic credentials.

The FT ran a story last night to stoke a bit of fear.

The Anglosphere is at war with the CCP: In an apparent tit for tat move, BBC World News has been banned from airing in China, according to a statement from China’s National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA) on Thursday.

We all know that China is doing its very best to muddy the waters around the derivation of COVID-19.

I have very little time for China Matters.

Fungible is the word.