While the mainstream media provides non-stop coverage of the unrest occurring in Hong Kong, recent turmoil in Ecuador barely rates a mention, yet seven protestors are dead, 1,340 injured and 1,152 have been arrested.
Australia’s political class is quick to criticise the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for its control of China, but when it comes to foreign policy, Australia is no less a one-party state.
As the furore over Chinese interference in Australia rages, take a moment to consider exactly what we fear may be the result of alleged Chinese meddling in our pristine political system. What’s the worst that China might influence us to do?
The admission by the UK’s chemical weapons lab that it can’t verify the source of the alleged nerve agent blamed for poisoning Sergei and Yulia Skripal means that the Australian government expelled Russian diplomats on false information.
Russia expert and former diplomat and intelligence official Kyle Wilson claimed to Patricia Karvelas on the 27 March Radio National Drive program that Russian diplomats addressing a 2015 Citizens Electoral Council conference was an instance of Rus
