Oh, but you must travel through those woods again and again... said a shadow at the window... and you must be lucky to avoid the wolf every time...
But the wolf... the wolf only needs enough luck to find you once.”
― Through the Woods
A look back to a different time in Australia-China relations
In his new book, Geoff Kitney recalls a time when Australian leaders, such as Doug Anthony and Bob Hawke, saw only great opportunity in China.
Bob Hawke, pictured here on an official trip to China in 1986, went on to visit the country over 100 times.
We still called it Peking then and here we are, lining up to pay our respects to Mao Zedong. At the head of the line is then deputy prime minister Doug Anthony, with his wife, Margo. Behind them, standing in single file, are the captains of Australian industry – the CEOs of major companies like BHP, CRA and Dunlop, the heads of Australia’s major industry bodies, farm leaders, and behind them a gaggle of Australian journalists.
It is November 1978, and Mao has been dead for just over a year, but we can still see him, lying in a crystal coffin in the mausoleum built in Tiananmen Square, the famous, vast central square in the centre of the capital of Communist China. Deng Xiaoping had replaced Mao as the most powerful figure in China and had embarked on what was to become a transformation of Chinese Communism and the Chinese economy.
It was a very strange procession that day, capitalists paying homage to a Communist hero.
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Jun Wei Yeo, an ambitious and freshly enrolled Singaporean PhD student, was no doubt delighted when he was invited to give a presentation to Chinese academics in Beijing in 2015.
His doctorate research was about Chinese foreign policy and he was about to discover firsthand how the rising superpower seeks to attain influence.
After his presentation, Jun Wei, also known as Dickson, was, according to US court documents, approached by several people who said they worked for Chinese think tanks. They said they wanted to pay him to provide "political reports and information". They would later specify exactly what they wanted: "scuttlebutt" - rumours and insider knowledge.
China says Hong Kong election delay ‘necessary and reasonable’ Channel News Asia. Xi [musical interlude].
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‘I am exercising my rights as a citizen(of Israel) and they are treating me like the enemy’ (Plus61J Media 23th of July, 2020)
“I also want to build a better society, and that has to include caring, compassion, equality and peace with the Palestinians.”
Luther’s Influence on Philosophy, by Robert Stern.
Martin Luther, by Robert Stern.
Divine Revelation, by Mats Wahlberg
Mike Pompeo the Maoist Asia Times (Kevin W)
The Vatican Is Said To Be Hacked From China Before Talks With Beijing New York Times
Hong Kong property tycoon pitches new city idea to Ireland Guardian. PlutoniumKun: “Hard to know what to make of this.”
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Bill Gates: We will have a coronavirus vaccine, but the disease will keep coming back if there’s a US ‘leadership vacuum’ Business Insider
The psychology of misinformation: How to prevent it First Draft
The Prophecies of Q The Atlantic. Symbol manipulation for the uncredentialled and disempowered?
‘Unidentified Aerial Phenomena,’ Better Known as UFOs, Deserve Scientific Investigation Scientific American
Hong Kong Denies Mass Chinese Virus Tests Are Bid to Harvest DNABloomberg
‘Clean Up This Mess’: The Chinese Thinkers Behind Xi’s Hard Line NYT. “Many of them make respectful nods in their papers to Carl Schmitt.” I’d need to see the cites. But yikes.
Asia’s factory pain eases as China’s activity jumps Reuters
