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Part III: VIGIL OF THE COMMONWEALTH PRINCES

By yielding Commonwealth markets to Beijing, the UK risks unnecessarily diminishing King Charles’ future influence across the African continent.

Storm Clouds Gather Over Xi Jinping Ahead of China’s 20th National Congress

The movers and shakers from the biggest political party in the world – the 96 million-members who make up the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) – will gather in Beijing this Sunday, and for one man among the 2,296 delegates it…

North Korea: Nuclear loose cannon, or tool of Xi and Putin?

Are we facing nuclear Armageddon? What might precipitate the ultimate nightmare scenario? Joe Biden is worried. On October 6 the US President used the A-word, warning Vladimir Putin that any use of a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine risked cataclysmic…

Part I: Republicanism and “An ever changing future.”

As the recently departed Queen Elizabeth II ascended the throne on her Coronation Day on June 2nd 1953, she spoke memorably of the living strength of the Commonwealth, as well as of “societies old and new; of lands and races…

Psych Ops: M15 creates elite “Minority Report” unit to counter Russian and Chinese infiltration threats

MI5 has created a new “Minority Report” research centre designed to combat the “insider threat” posed by traitors working for Russia and China. The top-secret unit will be staffed by a team of forensic and clinical psychologists under orders to…

China sanctions children of its critics – and ends up a laughing stock

China is being roundly mocked over its decision to sanction the children of lawmakers who have spoken out over its aggression towards Taiwan and human rights abuses in Xinjiang. Five British politicians and their families were hit with Chinese sanctions…

China’s treatment of Uyghurs may amount to crimes against humanity, says UN

CHINA has been accused by the United Nations of large scale imprisonment, systematic rape, enforced sterilisation, and torture against the Muslim Uyghurs and other minorities. An explosive report by Michael Bachelet, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, details credible…

Former ambassador on China and Taiwan – steering clear of the red lines

In mid-August, China’s angry response to US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taipei was to fire live missiles over Taiwan and into its territorial waters and hold military exercises closer than ever before to the island. Tension…

Ukraine calls for China to be sanctioned for enabling Russia’s war crimes

Dennis Rice, reporting from the Senate, Washington DC. China is facing an extraordinary double whammy of sanctions over its aggression towards Taiwan and what one of the Ukraine’s most powerful politicians termed as its “hypocritical” stance over the former Russian…