The navies of India, Japan, the United States, and Australia started a joint military exercise “Malabar 2020” earlier this month. Observers say the drill is meant to curb Beijing’s increasing military and political expansion in the Indo-Pacific region. At the same time, Germany also declared it will dispatch a frigate to patrol the Indian […]
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During the first virus outbreak in China, concerns began to spread about possible food shortages. This included an alleged leaked government memo that caused panic buying. And now with the floods, locusts, the swine flu, and another virus outbreak now spreading, there are signs that food supplies are becoming an issue. Meanwhile, in Beijing, […]
Continue Reading Western allies have condemned China for using the smokescreen of the COVID-19 pandemic to impose a new security law in Hong Kong which violates its international commitments and threatens the “bastion of freedom”. The dire warnings came from the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia and Canada as tensions between the embattled Chinese Communist […]
Continue Reading The Australian’s Foreign Editor Greg Sheridan says despite what the Coalition says in public, bureaucrats and the government MPs know China’s recent “brutal rhetoric” about Australia is based “purely for political purposes”. On Monday, China threatened tariffs up to 80 per cent on Australian grain if the federal government does not respond to allegations […]
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