• OPINION

  Taiwan is still in China's web of war games

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 27/01/2021

  » Most news agencies reported on Sunday that China sent large groups of fighters and bombers into the Taiwanese airspace two days in a row. Much fluttering in the dovecote: the Chinese are testing the resolve of newly installed US President Joe Biden.

• OPINION

  China and its repression of the Uighurs

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 23/08/2018

  » Two weeks ago, Prof Gay McDougall, co-chair of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, alleged that up to a million people belonging to the Uighur and other Muslim minority groups in China's northwestern province of Xinjiang have been detained in concentration camps to be "re-educated" about religion.

• OPINION

  Why China won't budge on N Korea

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 07/11/2017

  » Over the next few days, Donald Trump will be visiting the leaders of Japan, South Korea and China, and the same topic will dominate all three conversations: North Korea. Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korea's President Moon Jae-in will be looking for reassurance that the United States will protect them from North Korea's nuclear weapons, but in Beijing Mr Trump will be the supplicant.

• OPINION

  Face-off looms over South China Sea

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 07/07/2016

  » Next Tuesday, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea will issue its ruling on China's claim to practically all of the South China Sea. And already the main military contenders are moving more forces into the region.

• OPINION

  China's Xi shaping up as Chairman Mao of 21st century

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 28/02/2018

  » The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) approved a proposal on Monday that the country's president no longer be limited to two five-year terms of office. The National People's Congress will rubber-stamp the change. And that will be the end of three decades of consensus-seeking collective leadership in the CCP. The god-king model is back.

• OPINION

  France's latest crude, culinary counter-offensive

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 08/09/2023

  » The French government has just published a decree banning the use of terms like "steak", "spare ribs" and "ham" on plant-based foods. Sausages and "poultry nuggets" will escape the ban so long as the plant protein content is less than 6%.

• OPINION

  Have we solved the floaty-bag problem?

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 17/02/2023

  » The United States has been having "a bit of a floaty-bag problem over its airspace", as South Africa's Daily Maverick news site put it.

• OPINION

  Is Aussie political madness catching?

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 29/08/2018

  » I happened to be in Canberra last Friday, speaking to a room full of journalists at the National Press Club, when the news came in, halfway through lunch, that Australia had a new prime minister. The moderator pointed out that the year is already two-thirds gone and it is "only three prime ministers till Christmas" -- and the China Daily's headline read "Australia changes its prime minister again, again, again, again, again".

• OPINION

  Looking back at the October Revolution

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 02/11/2017

  » China Mieville, a novelist I much admire, has published a history of the "October Revolution" to mark its hundredth anniversary (which is actually on Nov 7, since the Russians were still using the Julian calendar in 1917). It had an unusual effect on me. It made me question whether I was right about the utter futility of that revolution.

• OPINION

  There's nothing special about democracy in US

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 08/01/2021

  » If I have to read one more hand-wringing article about the "crisis of American democracy" and what it means for the world, I'm going to retch.

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