• OPINION

  Hope on horizon for starving Palestinians?

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 14/03/2024

  » Good news! The US logistical support ship General Frank S. Besson Junior has just sailed from Norfolk, Virginia, carrying the equipment needed to build a temporary pier off the coast of Gaza. That will enable the US to deliver food to the starving (yes, literally starving) Palestinian population of the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip.

• 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

  Charting China's decline, at a slow pace

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 11/12/2023

  » For several years now, I have had a file on my computer named "China -- has the moment arrived?" But I think I missed the moment -- or rather I forgot that these things aren't a moment, they're a process.

• OPINION

  Argentina must break its vicious political cycle

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 15/11/2023

  » Bertolt Brecht lived in Germany, not in Argentina, and he has been dead longer than he was alive, but his famous question applies to the Argentine election next Sunday: "Would it not be simpler if the government dissolved the people and elected another?"

• OPINION

  Turkey and its hundred-year culture war

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 12/05/2023

  » Turkey's elections are fairly free, and there is going to be one this Sunday. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been in power for two decades, and he should really lose by a landslide. Imagine what the United States would be like if Donald Trump had been in power for 20 years, and that's what Turkey looks like today.

• OPINION

  Earthquakes, Turkish politics and culpability

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 15/02/2023

  » If you are trying to dodge the blame for a great disaster, the best policy is to say that it was God's will. So Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, visiting one of the 6,000 buildings that collapsed on their sleeping residents in eastern Turkey last week, said: "Such things have always happened. It's part of Destiny's plan."

• OPINION

  Sri Lanka: A bad 'Band of Brothers'

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 16/07/2022

  » 'How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked (in Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises). "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." Sri Lanka is much the same.

• OPINION

  China: No more being Mister Nice Guy

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 04/01/2022

  » More than 200 Hong Kong police raided and shut down one of the last pro-democracy news websites in Hong Kong before on Wed of Dec 29, in the latest sign that the Beijing regime will no longer tolerate dissent of any kind. It was total overkill -- a couple of cops with a court order would have sufficed -- but they were 'sending a message' to other "malcontents".

• OPINION

  Winter is on the way in Afghanistan

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 10/11/2021

  » The first snow of the winter will reach Kabul any day now, and the death rate will start to climb: mostly children, at first, but it will not really be the cold that kills them. The cold will only finish the work that malnutrition began months or years ago -- but the other cause of their deaths will be a different kind of freeze.

• OPINION

  It's volcanoes, tsunamis and risk at La Palma

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 09/10/2021

  » 'Don't bother your pretty head about it" is the prevailing media take on the risk of the volcanic eruption on La Palma in the Canary Islands turning into a mega-tsunami disaster. The media definitely over-hyped that risk when it was first suggested 20 years ago, so now they have to work the other side of the street.

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