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US frozen beef exports to China surge at Australia's expense. Hardly protecting Australia’s back!

US frozen beef exports to China surge at Australia's expense. Hardly protecting Australia’s back!

Australia's frozen beef exports to China have plunged since April, but the United States' exports keep rising — flipping the trade pattern seen a year ago.

Remember Mao’s famine, forget Churchill’s racism: how the West colonised Asian minds- SCMP August 23 2021

In late June and early July, First Nations communities in Canada found over 1,000 unmarked graves of children in Indian residential schools, which were run by the Roman Catholic Church from 1899 to 1997. This has led to activists burning Catholic churches and taking down statues of Queen Elizabeth II and Queen Victoria.

A foreign policy built on shamelessness and hypocrisy

As US lectures other countries on human rights and press freedom, its military has been busy killing foreign civilians and its prosecutors are going after journalists, whistleblowers and ethnic Chinese researchers.

Henry Kissinger marks 50 years since first China visit with call for talks to avoid ‘catastrophe’

Former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger called for serious dialogue between China and the United States to avoid “catastrophe”, during a Beijing event celebrating his historic trip to China 50 years ago.

Tim I Gurung -Hongkongers should learn from how Britain treated the Gurkhas

Britain’s recently adopted policy to grant Hongkongers with British National (Overseas) passports a pathway to citizenship in the UK seems to be a pretty generous offer. Indeed, many Hongkongers have already taken advantage of it.

Su-Lin Tan-China-Australia relations: US coal continues to fill void left by ban on Australian exports, Canberra report says

The United States continued shipping more coal to China in May – supporting an upward trend seen in recent months and filling the gap left by Australian coal banned by Chinese authorities, newly released trade data and reports show.

Alex Lo-How ‘Five Eyes’ allies eat Australia’s lunch over China trade

The US and Canada have been more than happy to substitute supplies from Down Under to China with their own while denouncing Beijing’s ‘economic coercion’

Chandran Nair.The world is woke to Western posturing and global white privilege

Chandran Nair.The world is woke to Western posturing and global white privilege

The West’s disingenuous position on Israel and its coordinated attacks on China have blown the cover of the liberal narratives it uses to hide a postcolonial, imperialist agenda Its hypocrisy has been further exposed by its hoarding of coronavirus vaccines and the systemic racism that prompted the Black Lives Matter protests and fuelled attacks on people of Asian descent.

Why the Western narrative of China’s ‘debt trap diplomacy’ is another big lie

To work well, the lie must be introduced early, repeated often and insulated from contradiction by a narrative of “fake news” and accusations of “witch hunts”.

Cold War-era spy novels have much to tell us about the US, China and the new year (SCMP Dec 29, 2020)

So what about this coming year? Maybe it will be better (oh, yes please). But who knows? Public opinion surveys, which certainly have seen better days, are not so good at prediction: some people prefer to keep their feelings secret. Social science studies can be useful, but narrow.

China’s marginal RCEP gains will not offset trade war impact on economy, studies show

Studies show the benefits of Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) will not outweigh the negative impact of the long-running US trade war on China’s economy. However, analysts agree the trade pact, which covers 30 per cent of the global economy, is far more strategically significant than in direct economic impact.