The Guardian • anti-China
Issue #2145
100 days of Trump
The White House has launched a streaming looped video on X touting President Donald Trump’s amazing accomplishments in his first 100 days in office. Trump...
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Issue #2107
Drive to war: RIMPAC 2024
The US-sponsored ‘Rim of the Pacific’ (RIMPAC) military exercises have just begun. This show of naval force is the world’s largest. Vice Admiral John Wade,...
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Issue #2150
AUKUS in trouble
There have been conniptions in Canberra after the announcement by the US government that it plans to review AUKUS. The UK is reviewing it too....
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Issue #2085
Anti-China economics threaten the world
The mind of the average bourgeois economist at first appears disordered and schizophrenic. But there is an almost orchestrated approach to their anti-China reporting that...
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Issue #2136
Japan: ‘self-defence’ stretched beyond a joke
Everyone knows that self-defence means defending one’s self, right? Everybody also knows that for a nation, self-defence means defending that nation, right? Everybody except hawkish...
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Issue #2103
Shangri-la an exercise in US coercion and bullying
The Shangri-la Dialogue, a regular international gathering organised by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), has recently concluded in Singapore. Described as a “world-leading...
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Issue #2105
Where our real national interest lies
The visit of Chinese Premier Li Qiang to Australia has revealed much about this country and how it views its relationship with China. Two distinct...
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Issue #2092
China’s defence budget and the lies of imperialism
China will increase its defence spending by 7.2 per cent in the coming year. Predictably, ‘warnings’ came from the West. The cry is that the...
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Issue #2086
Op-Ed: Yang Hengjun and the fury of the Australian state
The fury that has been unleashed by the Australian government, state and media following the sentencing of Yang Hengjun in Beijing deserves some thought. He...
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Issue #2162
GLOBAL BRIEFS
EU: Kaja Kallas, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and European Commission Vice President, has been criticised by Chinese commentators and others...
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Issue #2128
Trump and the coming economic crisis
A damoclean sword hangs over the head of the global economy. Its name is Trump. The president-elect’s economic policies of trade war, tariffs, and protectionism...
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Issue #2092
LETTER
Dear Editor, When two China-haters write on ASEAN there can’t be too many expectations of a reasonable assessment of that organisation’s deliberations in Melbourne on...
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Issue #2119
US Congress funds propaganda campaign
The US House of Representatives approved 25 anti-China laws in just one week in September this year. US website geopoliticaleconomy.com calls this “a clear sign...
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Issue #2177
Monroe is back, rules-based international order is out
The 2026 National Defense Strategy report, authored by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, redefines the United States’ role in the world, prioritising the Western Hemisphere...
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Issue #2120
Japan: New PM calls for ‘Asian NATO’
Japan’s new prime minister, Ishiba Shigeru has called for the creation of an ‘Asian NATO.’ It can only heighten tension in the region. What the...
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Issue #2112
Slaves to the US alliance
The next step in the AUKUS agreement will see a line of bases hosting foreign, mostly US, personnel, that will run along the Australian coast...
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Issue #2111
New arms race in Europe
The signing of the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty between the USA and the Soviet Union, in 1988, was a break in Cold War...
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Issue #2156
China-Australia friendship and a shared future
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. More...
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Issue #2143
GLOBAL BRIEFS
PHILIPPINES: Thousands of US and Filipino military personnel have begun annual combat drills that have antagonised China, including a “full-scale battle scenario” to simulate the...
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Issue #2087
Australia and New Zealand’s ‘seamless’ march to militarisation
The latest step in the militarisation of the Indo-Pacific has been taken. The inaugural ANZMIN ‘2+2’ joint meeting of Australian and New Zealand foreign and...
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Issue #2128
Marles, missiles and a Canadian alliance
Australian Minister for Defence, Richard Marles, has shown yet again that he will spare no effort in preparing Australia for war. It doesn’t faze him...
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Issue #2111
PEACE NOTES
This paper has used a lot of space to explain how Australian military forces have been turned into a working part of the US military,...
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Issue #2159
NUKED: The Submarine Fiasco that Sank Australia’s Sovereignty
Andrew Fowler’s book critically examines the decision by the Liberal Prime Minister Scott Morrison (and his failure to inform anybody else) – to enter into...
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Issue #2147
PEACE NOTES
Say what you like about war, at least it’s good for the economy, right? Wrong, but you could be forgiven for thinking otherwise. War and...
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Issue #2159
LETTERS
Comrade Editor, The Channel 9 papers seem determined to push Australia into buying the hideously expensive AUKUS submarines and a war with China. So desperate...
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Issue #2179
PEACE NOTES
High probability of failure (AUKUS) Comments from retired rear admiral Philip Mathias, a former director of nuclear policy with the UK Ministry of Defence, have...
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Issue #2125
The origins of AUKUS
“The United States is a Pacific power, and we are here to stay,” said US President Obama during his visit to Australia in 2011 as...
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Issue #2171
PEACE NOTES
Here are some stomach-turning remarks from Richard Marles, Minister for Defence in his opening address to the opening of the recent Indo-Pacific Expo/arms fair in...
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Issue #2153
PEACE NOTES
(Comrade Hannah Middleton inaugurated the Guardian’s Peace Notes column. As we prepare to commemorate her life and achievements, it seems appropriate to reprint these words...
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Issue #2155
PEACE NOTES
What’s the biggest threat to world peace? Is it those nuclear weapons Iran is supposed to be working on? Is it the much-demonised country of...
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Issue #2123
DINGO
PM Anthony Albanese has rejected accusations from Beijing that his country is “plagued by systemic racism and hate crimes.” Beijing spoke out after an Australian...
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Issue #2129
Talisman Sabre, the drive to war
The 11th Talisman Sabre military exercise will be held later this year. A lot has happened since the last gathering in 2023. While the exercises...
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Issue #2131
DINGO
The United Workers’ Union (UWU) declares that “Climate change is union business.” The union notes that workers in Australia are on the frontlines of the...
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Issue #2155
IPAN urges Australia to ‘take a leadership role’
On the 80th anniversary of the Trinity nuclear bomb test which began the age of nuclear weapons, the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN) has...
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Issue #2143
Against fascism and war
Nationalism and militarism are being promoted on the election campaign trail, with Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton taking every opportunity to be seen with troops...
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Issue #2150
EDITORIAL
US President Donald Trump is always in the news. There are a lot of reasons to think he’s an especially horrible person. He’s very corrupt...
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Issue #2136
Unite for rights and against war
There is growing opposition around Australia to the authoritarian police-state attempts to silence voices of protest in support of the Palestinian people and against Israel’s...
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Issue #2162
Victory Day in China
As China marked the 80th anniversary of its victory in World War II on 3 September, the gathering in Tiananmen Square was not about swagger,...
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Issue #2163
EDITORIAL
It’s been a while since the AUKUS pact was featured in this newspaper. The plan to buy nuclear-powered submarines from the USA and the UK,...
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Issue #2137
EDITORIAL
New US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has been depressing a lot of mainstream commentators with his comments about Europe and Ukraine, but one mainstream paper...
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Issue #2155
BAN ALL NUCLEAR WEAPONS
We face the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, as the issues of war and peace are thrown into...
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Issue #2138
EDITORIAL
As we come closer to a May election, there’s a lot of talk of military spending. Our mainstream news outlets assume this country needs to...
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Issue #2141
Wage rise needed now!
A wage rise has become an urgent need for the great majority of Australian workers. Since its election, the Albanese government, in league with some...
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Issue #2145
How’s your posture?
Not so long ago, we heard a lot about AUKUS. It’s a pact under which Australia signs up for more than $360 billion in order...
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Issue #2138
End US war alliance
Australia must withdraw from the AUKUS war-making alliance. In its utter subservience to its US master, the Albanese government has suggested Australia could send troops...
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