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Was Donald Trump 2020’s biggest loser?
Simon CowanJanuary 2, 2021Canberra Times

Another year over. And thank god for that! 2020 can get right in the bin....

Advice holds: see China as it is, not as it ought to be
Tom SwitzerDecember 29, 2020THE AUSTRALIAN

A good mate of mine died this year. He was 90 — four decades my...

Why Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Had It Right
Tom SwitzerDecember 25, 2020THE NATIONAL INTEREST

THIRTY YEARS ago, the quintessential neoconservative Jeane J. Kirkpatrick argued in The National Interest that...

Acquiescence is not the answer
Tom SwitzerDecember 4, 2020Ideas@theCentre

We are told that Australia’s political leaders must try to ‘rebuild trust’ with Beijing, while...

Critics of Australia’s China policy don’t have much to offer
Tom SwitzerNovember 30, 2020Financial Review

American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald once remarked: “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the...

Repudiation of the US left
Tom SwitzerNovember 12, 2020Ideas@TheCentre

According to the media conventional wisdom, the 2020 US elections represent a repudiation of Trumpism....

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