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All your West Pacific belong China What a difference a year makes Godfree Roberts   Last year I explained why China dominates the West Pacific militarily. Since then, things have developed not necessarily to America’s advantage. Last year, for example, a US carrier docked at Darwin Port had zero chance of surviving a volley of […]

The economic consequences of the US-China trade deal mean that, by 2025, it Will Be ‘Game Over’ for the US The size of China’s displacement of the world balance is such that the world must find a new balance. It is simply impossible to pretend that this is just another big player. This is the

The CIA programs in Tibet, which were very effective in destabilizing it, did not succeed in Xinjiang. There were similar efforts made with the Uyghurs during the Cold War that never really got off the ground. In both cases you had religion waved as a banner in support of a desire for independence or autonomy

Data-Driven Democracy: China’s Congress in Action People are supreme, the state is secondary and the Ruler is the least important: only those who please the people can rule. Mencius[1] In Roman politics, China’s Congress in Action citizens lost control of politicians after electing them. It’s one of the system’s greatest weaknesses and it is no wonder

Talking ‘democracy’ is not doing democracy Godfree Roberts25 min ago The biggest hit on Western style democracy is that it is fake democracy. Yes, its elections make it look democratic, and its politicians endlessly repeat “democracy,” but it doesn’t walk like democracy. It never produces democratic outcomes. Never: The central point that emerges from our

THE COVID DOG THAT DIDN’T BARK When and Where Was Covid-19 Really Born? The coronavirus may have been lying dormant around the world until emerging under favourable environmental conditions, rather than originating in China. A string of recent discoveries around the world–before it emerged in Asia. Is evidence of its origin as a global organism