Category: The Australian

It takes a strong leader to impose limits on his own power, and Biden shows no signs of being strong enough.

China’s recent propaganda taunts and trade sanctions are the bitter recriminations of a lover scorned, and there is nothing Canberra can (realistically) do to return to Beijing’s good graces.

It even has been suggested that the fleet might be multinational in composition, operating something like an ongoing set of naval exercises or even a maritime Indo-Pacific NATO.

By all means, appeal to science — but never to “the science”.

The coronavirus-induced exodus of Chinese students virtually assures that the Go8 will soon start a painful climb down from its decade at the top of the charts. Was it all worth it?

Responding to the spike in unemployment caused by the coronavirus epidemic (and measures to combat it), Scott Morrison put the economy into hibernation this week. He didn’t say for sure when it would come out. That’s the $320bn question.

More than two-thirds of Australia’s mineral exports go to China, along with more than a quarter of its agricultural products and a third of its wine.

Severe acute respiratory syndrome 2003. Pneumonic plague 2009. Coronavirus 2020. Avian flu just about every other year. Why does it seem like the next virus apocalypse is always coming from China? Compared with other developing countries, China has a highly effective public health service. It has world-class epidemiological laboratories. Its…