• 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

  Khashoggi and MBS's blunderers

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 03/03/2021

  » If Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, were a burglar, he wouldn't be George Clooney in Ocean's Eleven. He'd be a cartoon burglar in a carnival mask and a top with black-and-white horizontal stripes, carrying a sack labelled "SWAG".

• OPINION

  Wreath gaffe puts Corbyn in hot water

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 17/08/2018

  » It sounds like a tempest in a teapot, but it could bring down Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of Britain's Labour Party -- and that could end up meaning that Britain doesn't leave the European Union after all.

• 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

  Muslims do fit in, though more slowly

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 30/04/2018

  » 'Every Continental [European] under the age of 40 -- make that 60, if not 75 -- is all but guaranteed to end his days living in an Islamified Europe," wrote polemicist Mark Steyn in 2006. "Native populations on the continent are aging and fading and being supplanted remorselessly by a young Muslim demographic."

• 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

  Reunification of Syria under Assad

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 04/01/2017

  » So far the end-game in Syria has played out in an entirely predictable way. All of Aleppo is back in the Syrian government's hands, that decisive victory for President Bashar al-Assad and his Russian backers has been followed by a ceasefire, and the Russians are now organising a peace conference in Astana, Kazakhstan for later this month.

• 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

  South Korea: Very competitive and childless

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 05/03/2024

  » There are enough people to go around: eight billion now, compared to two billion less than a hundred years ago. Fifty-one million in South Korea, compared to only twelve million a hundred years ago. So why are South Koreans obsessed about their low birth rate?

• OPINION

  Israel-Hamas war can only be stopped by Biden

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 28/02/2024

  » More than four months into the sixth Arab-Israeli War, with about 1,500 Israelis dead and 30,000 Palestinians dead, all the major local actors are stuck. Only the United States can stop the killing -- if it chooses to do so.

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