Huawei: the telco that spooked Canberra – and the world
If you were to travel back in time to October 2013, Huawei was a rising telecom equipment manufacturer from China…
It’s not Huawei or the highway
China is herding over a million Turkic Uyghurs in East Turkestan (Xinjiang) into camps while Beijing simultaneously campaigns against Christmas…
Marise and the Mad Mullahs
Marise Payne is the new Foreign Minister of Australia; she will be an even more pareve version of Julie Bishop.…
Doing business with China without retreating on national security
China is a one-party state led by Xi Jinping, whose powers look like growing to that of a modern Stalin,…
Sophie’s bad choices
The ABC’s Jerusalem correspondent seems to have odd priorities
Campaign Notes
Liberals are dancing with the devil
Knives in their hands, or knives in their chests?
The moral relativism of the ABC has sunk to new lows - but with one or two journalists there is some hope
Desperately seeking Pax Americana
As Russia and Iran plot to reshape the Middle East in their image, a neutered Obama sits on his hands
Iranian bombshell
She may be the ayatollahs’ pin up girl, but Foreign Minister Julie Bishop is flirting with danger
Diplomatic Notes
Paris this spring was still beautiful, but tense. Post-Charlie Hebdo, 8,000 smart, almost chic, soldiers supplement the edgy French police.…
Apparently it’s the world’s first one-sided war
Fairfax reporters have form when it comes to replacing journalism with anti-Israeli activism
German Diary
The Greeks may fear and loathe Frankfurt as a crass citadel of German capitalism. Not me. It’s Germany’s aviation and…
