Asian markets roiled as bond rout turns ‘lethal’ … of the selloff prompted Australia’s central bank to launch a surprise… February 25, 2021 09:03pm EST Asian markets roiled as bond rout turns ‘lethal’ … of the selloff prompted Australia’s central… Read More ›

Australia
Australian News Headlines: February 24, 2021
Some Australian states ease curbs on dancing after weeks of no COVID cases … after the state, which accounts for a third of Australia’s population… Australia from Friday. Dancing will be now allowed at smaller venues… February 23, 2021 10:11pm… Read More ›
Australian News Headlines: February 23, 2021
Australia‘s Macquarie reaps windfall profits from U.S. winter freeze …, which also operates Australia’s largest asset manager and investment… February 22, 2021 04:47pm EST Australia shares set to track Wall Street lower as U.S. Treasury yields firm … Feb 23… Read More ›
Australian News Headlines: February 22, 2021
Dollar falls as improving sentiment boosts riskier currencies … will ease risks to Australia’s economy over the year, ratings agency Fitch… the yen, the dollar held steady at 105.45 Australia on Monday began its… February 21, 2021 07:38pm EST FOREX-Dollar… Read More ›
Australian News Headlines: February 21, 2021
Coronavirus Australia live news: Prime Minister, aged care residents and frontline staff will be among first to be vaccinated today Jane Malysiak gets the Pfizer shot at Sydney’s Castle Hill Medical Centre before Prime Minister Scott Morrison receives his vaccination… Read More ›
Australian News Headlines: February 20, 2021
Victoria records zero new coronavirus cases as Melbourne case moved to ICU Just 25 Covid cases remain in Victoria as state begins first weekend since end of third lockdown.The Guardian1 hour ago Zero cases of COVID-19 recorded in Victoria |… Read More ›
Australian News Headlines: February 19, 2021
Facebook’s brazen attempt to crush regulations in Australia may backfire Facebook’s move to block news publishers in Australia may create an even stronger backlash against the company, adding fuel to arguments that it has too …The Washington Post1 hour ago… Read More ›
Australian News Headlines: February 18, 2021
Facebook news ban hits emergency services and government health departments Emergency services and health Facebook pages have been caught up in the tech company’s decision to block Australian news *content*.Sydney Morning Herald2 hours ago Facebook restricts sharing or viewing Australian… Read More ›
China Crisis: Beijing’s Ban On Australian Coal Leaves Millions Freezing In The Dark
Electricity shortages are worsening across China, forcing tens of millions of residents in large cities to ration heating, raising questions about how long Xi Jinping can continue to delay delivery of more than $1bn of Australian coal which feeds the… Read More ›
Tens of millions in China facing winter power blackouts, rationing
Tens of millions across China are facing power shortages in below-freezing winter temperatures, as three provinces impose curbs on electricity use due to surging demand and a squeezed coal supply. Residents, factories and businesses in Hunan, Zhejiang and Jiangxi provinces… Read More ›
Chinese embargo of high quality Australian coal is increasing CO2 emissions
China and Australia’s trade dispute over coal threatens to escalate into a wider spat over climate change and net-zero emissions targets. The Morrison government will use China’s indefinite ban on Australian coal to accuse Beijing of skirting its climate change commitments, as… Read More ›
China suffering mass blackouts following Australian coal embargo
Millions of Chinese residents have been left without heating in the middle of winter as cities ration electricity amid a blockade on Australian coal. Australia provided 57 per cent of China‘s thermal coal imports in 2019, which is used to generate electricity… Read More ›
Cadence Column: Asia, December 21, 2020
Readers still can’t get a break from bad news of China. More Chinese companies are added to the notorious “entities list”. The WHO sends a team to China, which isn’t exactly wonderful press. China is the biggest military threat. The… Read More ›
Australia’s allies grabbing Australia’s lost market shares in China
At least 60 countries, many of them are Australia’s allies in the West, are taking advantages of the current Beijing-Canberra hostility, by bidding to increase their market shares in China in respect of beef, grape wine, lobster, coal, grains and… Read More ›
China’s embargo on Australian coal causes inferior grade Mongolian imports to surge
Green revolution anyone? Despite China’s aggressive geopolitical games, queues are forming at Australian coal export ports as other countries awaken from their Covid-19 economic slumber. Beijing’s ban on Australian coal has resulted in increasing imports from Mongolia, meaning the country… Read More ›
Americans willing to take risks to defend allies against China
Americans are overwhelmingly willing to take military risks in defending allies from China, according to a new poll from the Center for Strategic and International Studies. On a scale of 1 to 10—where 10 means one is willing to take… Read More ›
Xi Jinping’s Napolean moment – beginning of the end for China
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), was a French military leader and emperor. Napoleon rose through the ranks of the military during the French Revolution (1789-1799) at a very rapid rate. He seized political power in France in a 1799 coup d’état and… Read More ›
Cadence Column: Asia, October 12, 2020
China has gone effectively “NR”, a tech term for software being “non-responsive”. No matter what any nation says or does, China only digs in, tells the same lies no matter how increasingly obvious, and continues aggression as the solution to… Read More ›
US allies once seemed cowed by China. Now they’re responding with rare coordination
Chinese President Xi Jinping surprised the world with a speech at Davos in 2017, defending free trade and joint action on climate change as then US president-elect Donald Trump argued for precisely the opposite. It might have been an overambitious pitch by Xi… Read More ›
Australians at risk of arbitrary arrest in China, Australian government travel advice warns
The Federal Government has issued new travel advice warning Australians they could face “arbitrary detention” if they go to mainland China. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade also said Chinese Government authorities have detained foreigners because they were allegedly… Read More ›
The world is finally uniting against China’s bully tactics
Twenty Indian soldiers are murdered in a surprise cross-border attack by the People’s Liberation Army. A Philippine fishing boat is sunk in its own territorial waters by increasingly predatory Chinese ships. Peaceful pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong are beaten bloody… Read More ›
Cadence Column: Asia, June 15, 2020
The West and China just won’t back down from each other. China will no longer try to work through former Mayor Han of Kaohsiung to reunite Taiwan against the will of 23 million people. America wants to put new missiles… Read More ›
MPs from eight countries form new global coalition to counter China
What does the chair of the Australian parliament’s Intelligence Committee have in common with a Greens MP, a former Japanese Defence Minister, and a former Liberal Canadian attorney-general? The answer is China. Today, a group of 19 MPs from eight… Read More ›
Coalition of 62 countries backs joint Australian, EU push for independent inquiry into coronavirus outbreak
A coalition of 62 countries has backed a joint Australian and European Union push for an independent inquiry into the coronavirus outbreak ahead of a crucial World Health Assembly (WHA) meeting tomorrow in Geneva. Australia was the first nation to… Read More ›
As global economies dwindle, world wakes up to China’s hostile takeovers amid pandemic
India is the latest country to join the move to resist hostile business takeovers by China. Countries around the world have been tightening rules on foreign investments in critical sectors to ensure that their economies do not become vulnerable and… Read More ›
Australia bans exports of medical supplies after items sent in bulk to China amid COVID-19 pandemic
The Australian government on March 29 enacted new laws banning price gouging as well as the export of personal protective equipment (PPE) and disinfectant products as supplies in hospitals, aged-care centers, and other centres across the country are in short… Read More ›
China is seeking to ‘take over’ Australia’s political system, former Australian spy chief claims
The retired Asio chief Duncan Lewis has reportedly warned that the Chinese government is seeking to use “insidious” foreign interference operations to “take over” Australia’s political system. Anyone in office could be a target and the strategy’s full impact might… Read More ›
From Singapore to Sweden, China’s overbearing campaign for influence is forcing countries to resist and recalibrate relations with Beijing
Russia’s efforts to influence elections in the United States and Europe were a wake-up call about the threat of foreign influence in domestic public opinion and politics, blatantly violating norms of non-interference. China is not guilty of Russia’s excesses, but… Read More ›
China has been illegally redirecting traffic on the world’s Internet for 2 1/2 years
A recent discovery shows a Telecommunications company with ties to China’s government misdirected traffic for two and a half years. In recent times, a misdirection hacker operation allowed for the theft of over $150,000 in digital coins as unwitting people… Read More ›
Australia concluded China was behind hack on parliament, political parties
Australian intelligence determined China was responsible for a cyber-attack on its national parliament and three largest political parties before the general election in May, five people with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters Australia’s cyber intelligence agency – the… Read More ›
Foreign citizens banned from leaving China so they can be used for political leverage
Two young Americans, Victor and Cynthia Liu, are “trapped” in China, increasingly desperate and despondent because Chinese authorities have blocked them from leaving for more than a year. “They are trapped. They are alone. They are desperate to come home,”… Read More ›
Pentagon looks to Australia to cut China out of its stranglehold on rare earth supply
In an effort to secure the national security supply chain against China, the Pentagon is planning to stand up rare earth production sites in Australia. The Australian government released a report Tuesday listing nearly $4 billion in projects proposed by… Read More ›
Australia snubbed China’s Huawei and completed its undersea cable project to bring high-speed internet to Pacific Islands
Australia has completed the laying of undersea cables for its high-speed internet project in the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea, a snub to Chinese tech giant Huawei, which had previously competed for the deal. Australia on Wednesday laid the… Read More ›
Australia’s biggest state ends Confucius Institute programme over fears of foreign interference by China
Australia’s most populous state said it will axe a Chinese-funded education programme that teaches Mandarin in schools, amid fears over potential foreign influence. The Confucius Institute programme – administered by the Chinese government agency Hanban – teaches China’s official language… Read More ›
University of Sydney’s hypocrisy: Ramsay Centre cash bad, Beijing’s cash good
Back when millions of dollars in Ramsay Centre funding were on the table, University of Sydney Vice-Chancellor Dr Michael Spence wasn’t too keen, telling a Q&A audience in June 2018 that he would not tolerate “a propaganda course of any… Read More ›
Cadence Column: Asia, November 19, 2018
In Taiwanese politics, a mayor candidate’s comments about his own benefits from drinking honey-lemonade sparked retribution from the medical community. After a lump under his eye went away, apparently from a vegetarian and honey-lemonade diet, he actually said so. A… Read More ›
Businesses don’t like it, but the Australian government is dead right about China
Business and China Lobbyists can jump up and down, but the government has handled the aggressive and brutal Chinese dictatorship well. The China Lobby has various groupings, and a strictly accurate China Lobby Watch should note which wing is behind… Read More ›
Is China really out to rule the world? The Greentown ‘Ruling Class’
Is China educating an elite class of students with the plan of seeding them into positions of power in Western democracies? In his book Silent Invasion, Professor Clive Hamilton talks about a meeting in 2004 where Chinese Communist Party Secretary Hu… Read More ›
Duterte in between China and Quad
“Australia, the United States, India and Japan are talking about establishing a joint regional infrastructure scheme as an alternative to China’s multibillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative in an attempt to counter Beijing’s spreading influence …” reported by Reuters on Feb… Read More ›
Should Australia treat China as friend or foe?
On Saturday, on the front page of The Australian, there was an article declaring that Australia’s spy agency had identified 10 local and state political candidates with ties to Chinese intelligence, part of China’s plans to interfere in Australian democracy…. Read More ›
China is ‘unsettled’ by Australia’s justified criticism and showing ‘outright hostility’
International relations between China and Australia have “soured” and the Asian powerhouse’s mistrust of us is growing — an expert in the field has claimed. Nick Bisley, a Professor of International Relations at La Trobe University, says the country was… Read More ›
Australian taxes helping to finance Chinese military capability
For several years the Chinese party-state has been pursuing a co-ordinated program to acquire from abroad advanced military and industrial technology, and to do so by fair means or foul. It now emerges that Australian universities inadvertently are helping to… Read More ›
Devastating coral loss in South China Sea
Scientists are warning of another “devastating” loss of coral due to a spike in sea temperatures. They say 40% of coral has died at the Dongsha Atoll in the South China Sea. Nothing as severe has happened on Dongsha for… Read More ›
Australia is the leader in the Asia-Pacific region, not China or Japan
Forbes recently wrote that the leading power in East Asia will be Japan, not China. While this is probably true, Australia should not be forgotten as already being the de facto leader in the greater Asia-Pacific region, and could be… Read More ›
Australia has not changed their position on the South China Sea, despite what media says
A recent article in the Australian Financial Review claims that Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has changed her position on the South China Sea, and that Australia is now more in step with China’s stance. This is not necessarily true,… Read More ›
China must be stopped from blocking supply in the South China Sea
Australia and other countries are currently pushing for freedom of navigation patrols in the South China Sea, in response to China’s aggression and illegal claims in the region. For the immediate future, these countries should have a permanent presence in… Read More ›
US, Philippines launch joint South China Sea patrols
The US said Thursday it has launched joint South China Sea naval patrols with the Philippines, escalating its presence as it accused Beijing of “militarising” a region which is locked in territorial disputes. In a show of strength, US defence… Read More ›
Chinese navy silently obtains access to important ports around the world
The following is based on a translation of a report on a Chinese news site: Chinese news site mil.news.sina.com.cn reports that the PLA (People’s Liberation Army) navy has been making great efforts to obtain access to ports abroad so that… Read More ›
China says it should join TPP, even though it wasn’t invited
China should join at an appropriate time the U.S.-backed regional trade accord the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) as its broad aims are in line with China’s own economic reform agenda, an influential Communist Party newspaper said on Sunday. China is not… Read More ›
Rising India is vital to allied hopes to contain China
With Australia firmly in the geopolitical mix, no one is publicly talking about China and containment, but all strategies are going in that direction. A recent cover of India Today magazine has Prime Minister Narendra Modi dressed up as Superman,… Read More ›