Muslim Brotherhood's Turkey targets post-Muslim Brotherhood Egypt

Best Centre joins the dots: https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/turkey-target-egypt/

The problem is not one man...but the Chinese Communist Party's monopoly on power

This Guardian/Observer journalist blames the totalitarian hubris in China on Xi Jinping. Maybe the journalist's own left-wing ideology prevents him from calling out communism per se, but at least he is trying to get to to the bottom of things and that  counts as something:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/06/chairman-xi-seeks-only-to-purge-and-subjugate-that-is-his-weakness

The moral depravity of Beijing's 'Global Times' mouthpiece

Beijing's propagandists are getting more grotesque by the hour: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8684337/Chinese-media-says-Australia-poor-white-trash-Asia.html?ito=native_share_channel-home-preview

Pax Sinica interruptus

Here is an essay I have just written for Spectator Australia: https://www.spectator.com.au/2020/08/pax-sinica-interruptus/ 

What if Joe Biden is not suffering from dementia?

When the best you can say for Biden's ineptness is that he is experiencing cognitive decline, then you have a problem. What if he doesn't have early-stage dementia and his hiding away from the world is real Joe Biden. Here is a piece I wrote a year ago, and I think it still holds up: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2019/07/the-corrupt-and-the-crazy/ 

What Primary Attorney in Operation Crossfire Hurricane Did

Winter - or is it summer - is coming: https://www.theepochtimes.com/fbi-attorney-pleads-guilty-in-first-case-brought-by-john-durham_3467717.html?ref=brief_News&utm_source=morningbriefnoe&utm_medium=email&__sta=vhg.uosvpxjjsggvsfsqhz%7CBUQ&__stm_medium=email&__stm_source=smartech

Communist China Declares War On Australian Wine

Here is the latest act of belligerence perpetrated by the Chinese Communist Party against Australia: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/economics/china-launches-antidumping-probe-into-australian-wine/news-story/942e43ff8e81207c83ef26b30e6f54ec