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Joseph Thomas

Bangkok-based geopolitical researcher and writer

Australia's Self-Inflicted Economic Woes Continue

Australia had until recently been enjoying economic growth alongside the rise of China. This all changed when Canberra began following Washington's lead, antagonising China, and in what would snowball into a costly, self-inflicted economic crisis. Today, Australia not only faces mounting barriers to trade erected by China in response to Australia's systematic antagonism...

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France Joins America's South China Sea Adventurism

France has recently sent one of its nuclear attack submarines over 10,000 kilometers to the South China Sea for a "patrol." It is the latest indicator of how strained the underlying credibility is of US foreign policy regarding the South China Sea and its growing conflict with Beijing. While Washington frames its involvement in the region as "championing" for claimants...

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Myanmar's Military Takes Over

Headlines are abuzz with the military in Myanmar announcing that it would be taking power for a year, citing electoral irregularities that saw a landslide victory for the nation's defacto leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy political party. Western analysts have wavered between accusing the US and China of being behind the coup. Of course there is another possibility, that neither...

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Is the US Isolating China? Or Itself?

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Cambodia Demolishes US-built Naval Facility

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New Zealand's New Foreign Minister Refuses to Join West's China-Bashing

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China Uproots Hong Kong's US-Backed Opposition

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China's Growing Ties with Laos

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