It seems an eminently reasonable expectation to me but, as a man, I'm not qualified to comment. Please just read the story. JIN DING/CHINA DAILY I am simply amazed that in a crazed world of mostly ridiculous and highly irrelevant news reporting, China can still calmly and level-headedly find the time and news-space to consider... Continue Reading →
The West Has No Idea What China Is About
...or perhaps it does, and feels threatened by it. It should. But not for the reasons to which the West most commonly gives voice. China, the world's greatest democracy (I defy anyone to challenge that statement - but please don't as I cannot spare the time to educate you, although I might suggest some reading... Continue Reading →
US Reduced to Using Only Govt Funded NGOs as its Elite Front Line Troops
Knowing it has zero chance to impose its threats militarily anywhere in the world now, the US is reduced to promoting what has always been its second line of offence (defence never having had a role in US foreign policy) - government funded NGOs - to be the elite forces of its front line efforts... Continue Reading →
“For the Russian fighters on the battlefield such words as ‘honor’, ‘dignity’ and ‘courage’ are not meaningless”
This is about 'Private Military Companies', those unofficial armies of, I would say, almost exclusively ex-soldiers, meaning that they are in reality 'mercenaries' - paid, unlicensed, war machines for hire, and their role in the world where officially licensed soldiery i.e. the military wing of national governments, are just too expensive or too controversial to... Continue Reading →
A Lesson in True Democracy, From Xi Jinping
President Xi Jinping, leader of the People's Republic of China, the most populous nation on Earth and perhaps the nation state most closely representative of true democracy on the planet, addresses the subject earlier this month. If people only knew how China is actually governed, they would realise the truth of that statement. Oh, I'm... Continue Reading →
That sound you can hear? It’s the sound of bubbles popping.
I was going to write on a story of the Taiwan situation today, in which the West has revealed itself as a paper tiger following its dismissal from Afghanistan. Perhaps I will get to that tomorrow. Today, a similar story from a different background has been thrust to the fore by this article from Global... Continue Reading →
US “Power Projection” Based on a Platform of “Geopolitical Irrelevancy”
That US "power projection" is now based on a platform of "geopolitical irrelevancy" is, I think, obvious - at least to all those who form their own views rather than accepting the programmed 'groupthink'. And that is, I believe, how the world should be viewing the upcoming June 16 meeting between US President Joe Biden... Continue Reading →
New Zealand: Taking An Independent Position?
In a recent post I exempted New Zealand from comments on full alignment of that nation with the views and actions of the Five Eyes security alliance. This is not really something new. New Zealand has always been true to and followed its own principles. For a small, geographically isolated nation, that is a laudable... Continue Reading →
Rumours of War…
I still want to talk about war, but I can't bring myself to do it just yet. Even though all the poster signs, all the voices, all the military movements playing out a colossal chess game across various global hot points, spell out that war is in the air and on people's minds, there are... Continue Reading →
Not Something Else 