Category Archives: slanted reportage
A View of Australia from ORCADIAN somewhere in the Orkney Islands
Orcadian, responding to an Email circulated by Thuppahi conveying the views of JOHN LANDER, circulated by Senaka Weeraratne
John Lander, a former Australian ambassador, gives a most thoughtful analysis on the fictions of the China threat. Western diplomats need to return to the basics of what makes for good diplomacy. We are increasingly seeing Western diplomats becoming irrational, bordering on insane.
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China’s Maverick Status in Sri Lanka’s Economic Crisis
Bharatha Mallawarachi, Krutika Pathi and Joe McDonald, in The Diplomat, 20 May 2022, where the title reads “China Becomes Wild Card in Sri Lanka’s Debt Crisis”
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