Tag: China
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Former PM Malcolm Fraser: ditch US-AUS alliance
Former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser has called on current Prime Minister Tony Abbott to sever all military ties with the US, warning we would be paying dearly in the event that the waning superpower goes to war with China. According to Fraser, the benefit of our alliance with the United States, formalised in the 1953…
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Territorial Claims Raising Tensions in South China Sea
The South China Sea is one of East Asia’s most important military flashpoints. It is the world’s second most used sea-lane and accommodates a third of the world’s shipping. Competing territorial claims are causing tension within the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations).
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Adding Oil: China’s Dramatic Rise to Olympic Supremacy
An adolescent youth with a military-style crew cut faces a foreign camera crew, hands behind his back like he’s taking a team photo. He has the dreamy, dissociated gaze of a man who has just awakened from a dream, and looks down at the medal hanging by a ribbon around his neck as something unreal.
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Concerns About Confucius Institute Curriculum
The Confucius Institute, an initiative of the Chinese government, promotes Chinese culture and language abroad. It runs 350 programs in 104 countries. According to China’s Propaganda Chief, Li Changchun, it is “an important part of China’s overseas propaganda set-up,” but there are concerns about the nature of its organization and the autonomy of its curriculum.…
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Review: Make Yourself At Home
Piss-bolting through Redfern on a rainy afternoon of last week, I bee-lined my way past bedraggled nine-to-fivers and arrived at the Chinalink Gallery. The current exhibition, Make Yourself At Home, showcasing the works of four emerging Chinese-Australian artists, was a definite shift from the industrial streetscape outside.