Tag: History
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Xi Jinping and Chinese hegemony.
Xi Jinping is one tough nut to crack. The inscrutable leader who demonstrates no emotion and has no equity in any emotional outcome challenges anybody who has to face him. Behind the veneer are life lessons of being an outsider within the establishment, but he can also be characterised as being an insider. The poverty…
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For authoritarians who take themselves to seriously
I am not a fan of psychologists or psychiatrists, I have never been. One is a pill pedaller and the other delves into the psych to perform arguments that at times are theoretical and at others are damn right dangerous. There is a way to come to truths, arguments and mostly reflect on the internal…
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At first it was denials, then admittance – the excuses…. Is the Tony Blair foundation above criticism
The Neenah Cherry song 7 seconds, is about starvation, war, pestilence and disease. Bob Geldoff got onto the phone to his mates and pushed to save the millions dying in Ethiopia, but the originator of the war in the Middle East – Tony Blair took advice and argued that $9,000 would cut the population of…
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Will Serbia continue as a corrupt clientalist state?
European governments have not said much about the protests or protest movements in Serbia. It is odd that the protests didn’t hit the headlines and its odd that the continuation of the protests are not national arguments throughout Europe as the Serbian government has been using draconian measures to control the student demonstrations. The European…
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Taiwan’s 2024 election
The 1984 Sino – British agreement that Britain and China had over the status of Hong Kong, and the agreement that there would be one nation and two systems, has galvanised the elections in Taiwan. Furthermore, the questions concerning identity and independence is also being reflected by the war in Ukraine, and the difficulties that…
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Weekend read… Empires
John Darwin argued that a formal empire could be defined by a sustained effort to assimilate a country to the political, economic or cultural system of another power. (John Darwin (1997) SS9.2). Britain a maritime power and China a land-based empire, initially took significant different approaches to the expansion of their empires and how these…
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