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I have pointed out the inherent anti-Americanism of James Curran, Professor of Modern History at Sydney University, a few timesbefore. Today he returns with more of the same:
Robert Menzies blundered horribly when he back Britain in the Suez crisis.
The parallels today with Australia’s “questions of identity” regarding China are “uncomfortable”.
“Morrison is now as fixated on the Americans as Menzies was on the British.”
Readers will recall I recently took on this argument when it was also made by Niall Fergusson and equally filled with errors:
A Taiwan conflict could be the equivalent of the Suez crisis for the British Empire when it was exposed as a paper tiger.
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New Delhi, May 13: Chinas state medias threat to subject Australia to a missile strike, should it support Taiwan, has had an unexpected fallout-it has triggered demands in Canberra for nuclear weapons.Writing in the state-run tabloid Global .
China nuclear war fears as nation announces bid to make uranium out of sea water
Construction work on a new power plant could begin as early as 2026, with Beijing hoping to top up its naturally low uranium reserves by extracting the radioactive metal from the ocean
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Australians do not benefit from a war with China
12 May 2021, 16:52 GMT+10
Recent rhetoric on war is more about supporting the highly lucrative defence industry as it is about countering the rise of China, writes Dr Rashad Seedeen.
The COALITION GOVERNMENT is increasingly acting like its loud-mouthed, redneck cousin in the U.S.; full of bluster with little follow-through.
It all began when Secretary of Home Affairs, Mike Pezzullo, informed his staff in an ANZAC Day speech that once again the drums of war were beating. Newly minted Defence Minister but always thin-skinned, Peter Dutton, affirmed such sentiment, openly musing that the prospect of war with China over Taiwan should not be discounted .