Best of 2025 - US-China power shift: a G2 world – Asian Media Report
In Asian media this week: Trump hints at changing great-power relationship. Plus: Beijing wresting control of the global narrative; Myanmar’s scam centre raids dismissed as a smokescreen; Prabowo considers declaring Soeharto a national hero; US approves South Korean nuclear-powered submarine; China’s modern women need new men.
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Best of 2025 - 'We don't do that in this country': judge slams DPP
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In Australia, secretive and remote institutions armed with increasingly restrictive laws are seriously eroding civic freedoms.
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Best of 2025 - The new political economy of innovation: Why Australian policymakers need better tools
When the Commonwealth Government reorganised its innovation responsibilities for the fourth time in a decade, public servants made jokes about updating their email signatures again.
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The second part in a series of first-hand accounts of the Dismissal, from the man who was there: John Menadue.
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Quietly, but surely, life is ebbing away from the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (the Quad).
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Best of 2025 - Ambush and deceit
The first in a series of first-hand accounts of the Dismissal, from the man who was there: John Menadue.
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Best of 2025 - The ABC and News Corp finally agree on something: China panic
Last week, a friend asked if I was worried about Chinese “nuclear threats.
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Best of 2025 - Gaza under siege: The continuation of Zionist demographic cleansing policies since the 19th century
Israeli propaganda tries to present the war on Gaza as a “defensive reaction.” Yet the historical record tells a very different story: systematic genocide, the destruction of civilian life and deliberate attempts to uproot entire populations. All of this is a direct continuation of Zionist colonial policies that began in the late 19th century.
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Best of 2025 - Taiwan as an integral part of China: A historical, legal and geopolitical analysis
The status of Taiwan remains one of the most contested topics in modern geopolitics and one of the most misrepresented.
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Best of 2025 - Open letter to David Marr on his interview with Chris Hedges
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