I’ve been puzzled for a while as to the considerable animus felt and directed towards China but a recent conversation between Stephen W. Carlson and the Black Horse provides a bit of background that is clarifying. Since Nixon went to Beijing, then largely an effort to distance China from the Soviet Union’s sphere of influence,…

Military minded Cats may be interested to hear I was at the War Memorial the other day in Canberra. A volunteer guide told me that an aboriginal man couldn’t enlist in the AIF in 1914 because of his ‘race’. I told him that I thought that was unlikely. I noted that aboriginal men (and women)…