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Nail in coffin of Turkish democracy
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 18/07/2016
» Turkey's democracy is dead. It was dying anyway, as President Recep Tayyib Erdogan took over media outlets, arrested political opponents and journalists, and even re-started a war with the Kurds last autumn in order to win an election. But once part of the army launched a coup attempt on Friday night, it was dead no matter which way the crisis ended.
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The Korean rhetoric and its reality
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 13/09/2016
» Japanese government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said that North Korea was the "neighbourhod outlaw" after Pyongyang's fifth nuclear weapons test on Friday. Barack Obama said that "The United States does not, and never will, accept North Korea as a nuclear state". Even China voiced its "firm opposition to the test". And South Korea's president, Park Gyeung-hye, accused North Korea's Dear Leader Kim Jong-un of "maniacal recklessness".
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Preposterous times for four long years
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 17/05/2017
» All the talk of special prosecutors and the like will not bring the man to book. The soap opera will continue and no amount of dysfunction in the White House will make it stop until early 2019 at best. Even though a great deal of damage will have been done by then.
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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.
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Donald Trump and the 'Yellow Peril'
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 06/05/2020
» It was completely predictable that Donald Trump would try to blame China for the fact that at least 30 million Americans are unemployed and that 70,000 Americans have already died of Covid-19. His polling numbers are down and the election is only seven months away. What else was he going to do? Blame himself?
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What's next for Ukraine as the siege goes on?
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 26/03/2022
» Russian troops are stalled for the third week outside most of the major cities of eastern and central Ukraine, but they have failed to surround and cut off any of them except Mariupol, the big port on the Black Sea that has become the Ukrainian "Stalingrad". Indeed, Ukrainian counter-attacks are driving the Russians back some distance in a few places.
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Cuban missile crisis redux in Nicaragua?
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 06/07/2022
» It was a piece of news so obscure and implausible that I missed it when it first surfaced last month. The news was that the Russians are going to put hypersonic nuclear missiles into Nicaragua and terrify the Americans into backing down over Ukraine. Or kill them all if they don't.
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