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- Time for a Yalta Deal with Tehran - June 11, 2009
- Iran's revolution seamlessly blended the subversive and the divine - Shia revivalism alongside Marxist revolutionary doctrines - turning Iran into a power constantly...
- Obama Reaching for Hearts and Minds - June 6, 2009
- Obama also repeated Bush's opposition to Israeli settlement expansion in the West Bank. It's wrong to suggest this is a break from Bush. Condoleezza Rice was explicit,...
- The Uprising China Would Have Us Forget - June 1, 2009
- In the early morning dew on April 4 this year, when 75-year old retired Shandong University professor Sun Wenguang set off in a hired taxi to the summit of Yingxiong...
- Three Lessons from Pyongyang's Test - May 27, 2009
- Why? Because the status quo suits China. There is no evidence Beijing is worried by the humanitarian plight of North Korea's half-starved population. When a big...
- Israel Must Take Risks - May 25, 2009
- Instead, he spoke of "self-government" for the Palestinians and laid down what sounded like a new precondition: the Palestinians would have to "allow Israel the means to...
- Domino Theory in the Age of Terror - May 18, 2009
- The other southeast Asian countries, which had been given time to strengthen their economies and political institutions by the long holding action in Vietnam, did not...
- Unstable Trio Endangers the World - May 8, 2009
- But there is no serious debate that the trend lines on the key issues are generally negative and that seriously destructive dynamics are gaining momentum.Taken...
- Cold Facts Dispel Global Warming Theories - April 29, 2009
- It is the soothing promises that decarbonising the economies of the developed world can be achieved without pain, and even with gain of green jobs, that are being seen...
- Kim's Nuclear Reaction - April 25, 2009
- North Korea has been able to use nuclear weapons at some level at least since the nuclear test it carried out in October 2006. Optimistic analysts pointed out that one...
- Climate Change Science Isn't Settled - April 24, 2009
- Water vapour, not carbon dioxide, is by far the most important greenhouse gas. Yet the models treat the global water cycle as just being there, relegating it to a...
- Thought Police Muscle Up in Britain - April 21, 2009
- In the past 10 years I have collected reports of many instances of draconian punishments, including the arrest and criminal prosecution of children, for thought-crimes...
- Crisis Was Made in China - April 17, 2009
- The fallacy of this view was exposed in a speech by US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, then a member of its board, in March 2005. The title of his speech was The...
- An Uneasy Calm in Thailand - April 15, 2009
- Thaksin had won re-election in 2005. I met him a few times and found him smooth and very much in charge. There were good and bad features of Thaksin as PM. He ran...
- Obama Is No Jimmy Carter - April 7, 2009
- Moreover, revelation of Freeman's comments after 9/11, insinuating the al-Qa'ida attacks were caused by US policies, led to more criticism. Protests against the...
- Barak Balances Israel's Rightward Tilt - March 31, 2009
- The role of Tzipi Livni, leader of Kadima, which will be in opposition, is also fascinating. Western governments, including Canberra, wanted a broad-based Israeli...
- Khatami Is Just Ahmadinejad with a Silver Tongue - March 24, 2009
- On March 9, 1999, during his first visit to Europe, Khatami told the Italian parliament: "Tolerance and exchange of views are the fruits of cultural richness,...
- Palestine Is a Victim of Arab Betrayal - March 20, 2009
- It was in those years that the Arab League started its Palestinian refugee policy. Arab countries implemented special laws designed to make it impossible to integrate...
- Obama's Deadly Cure for Global Crisis - March 10, 2009
- The implication is that fixing the fundamental global imbalance behind the crisis requires American belt-tightening as part of what some call a "grand bargain" between...
- The Peril Brewing in Pyongyang - March 5, 2009
- When it does we will ask how we didn't see it coming and why we were so unprepared.Over the past few months North Korea has been going through one of its bellicose,...
- Australia's Unhappy Marriage to Pakistan - February 27, 2009
- I shouldn't be too hard on Howard, however, because really there was not much alternative.Pakistan presents almost the classical ideal of the divided state, where part...
- Clinton Didn't Snub Australia - February 17, 2009
- First, it is important to understand that Clinton's trip is more about diplomatic turf in Washington than it is about new diplomatic initiatives.Canberra need not worry...
- Matured Netanyahu is Ready to Rule - February 13, 2009
- But there is almost certainly less than meets the eye to these differences. Livni has been in government these past years. All Israeli governments engage in the peace...
- Australia: A Nation Coasting in Neutral - December 7, 2008
- Across the world, poor societies are becoming rich, and rich societies are slipping. Nations from Russia and China to Venezuela and Iran are showing the world that they...