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Patrick Lawrence
Patrick Lawrence is a longtime correspondent abroad, author and essayist, credited with numerous books and awards. Foreign affairs commentator for 25 years chiefly for the Far Eastern Economic Review, the International Herald Tribune, and The New Yorker, and chiefly in Asia. Lawrence was the first to expose the Russiagate fraud.
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Europe and the legitimisation of deception
The U.S., having no need of or gift for statecraft, has long practiced what I’ve taken to calling the diplomacy of no diplomacy. You can’t expect much from bimbos such as Antony Blinken or Wendy Sherman, Blinken’s No. 2 at the State Department. All they can do is roar, even if they are mice next Continue reading »
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Zhou Enlai’s posthumous triumph
Nations now fashioning a post–Western world order appear to be abiding by the Five Principles espoused by China’s first and long-serving premier. Continue reading »
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Respected American journalist demolishes Biden’s approach to China
I’ve given up being amazed at how stupidly the Biden administration conducts its diplomacy with China and, by extension, Asia altogether. I spend my time now being amazed at how stupid these people assume the Chinese and other Asians to be. Continue reading »
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The collapse of foreign coverage in mainstream media
We are getting the worst press coverage of overseas events I can remember from the correspondents fielded in Ukraine. Continue reading »
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The delusion of Biden and the price of power.
It is remarkable how quickly the Biden administration is acquiring its stamp — the watermark it will leave on our parchment when it is done. This will be made of isolation and delusion, in my read. I conclude this partly because of what President Biden and his people have done in the four months since Continue reading »
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One does not accept for a moment that America is exceptional. (The Scrum Nov 9, 2020)
A humane health-care system? No—Biden has already said so. A proper infrastructure program? No. A jobs program, a Green New Deal? No and no. On the foreign side, renovated, 21st century policies toward Russia, North Korea, China, apartheid Israel? No, no, no, and emphatically no. What about the Iran nuclear accord—yes, that one, the one Continue reading »
