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Celestial Empire says, No
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,…
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Fickle, Thy Name is Wind
It is a still in Sydney town, the trees show no movement, as I walk for the paper and a coffee on this Saturday morning. Mind you, it is sunny, so there’s that. No doubt the grid is being fed by households with subsidised rooftop solar panels and by the solar blots strewn across the…
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Follow the breadcrumbs
In a recent article in the Australia, Greg Sheridan wrote “How China and its allies are winning the new cold war”. To slightly paraphrase one section, Sheridan wrote: “Beijing is taking every step to equip itself to fight a major war against the US. All the authoritarian (nations) have built, or are building, wartime economies.…
Sooner or later, you run out of Other Peoples Money.