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Facing the Chinese Dragon Today: Paul Keating’s Errors
Paul Monk in The Weekend Australian,23 November 2019 with this title “Keating rides roughshod over reality of China’s aims” …. with highlighting emphasis by The Editor, Thuppahi At The Australian Strategic Forum in Sydney on Monday, the keynote was struck … Continue reading →
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Coronavirus Time Bomb …. Tick, Tick, Tick
Jamie Walker, in The Weekend Australian 1/2 February 2020 Passenger A flies into Melbourne from Wuhan on January 22 before the Chinese government seals off the drab industrial city of 11 million people in a futile bid to halt the … Continue reading →
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Hai Hoyi! Kochchiyen Baila Natanna!
A Portuguese travelling couple has defended themselves after they were slammed for hanging out of a moving train in Sri Lanka just so they could capture the perfect picture for Instagram, Daily Mail reported. The couple had taken the snapshot … Continue reading →
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Honeycombed with Societal and Political Fissures: Sri Lanka Now & Ever Before
Michael Roberts, reiterating the original draft sent to a few on 10 June 2020 Recent forum discussions on the topic of “Reconciliation” and correspondence with concerned friends have prompted me to essay an analysis of Sri Lanka’s societal problems over … Continue reading →
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Western Covid Fever against China excoriated by Kalinga and Fair Dinkum
ONE: Kalinga Seneviratne: “COVID-19: Sinophobia Threatening to Endanger Strengthening the Biological Weapons Convention” ** … https://www.indepthnews.net/index.php/sustainability/covid-19/3435-covid-19-sinophobia-threatening-to-endanger-strengthening-the-biological-weapons-convention SYDNEY (IDN) – With the spread of COVID-19 to Europe and the US a bout of Sinophobia seems to have infected the western media. On … Continue reading →
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Reading Stephen Champion’s Photo Event in 2008 …. Today 2020
Michael Roberts When I came across some ‘new’ material[1] of great import relating to KP Pathmanathan’s valiant efforts to extricate the LTTE leadership from their deteriorating military situation in early 2009 and to whisk them away to Eritrea with the … Continue reading →
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US Scheming Looms over India and Lanka
Shenali Waduge, in Lankaweb, 9 February 2020, where the title is “Balkanizing India: National Security dimensions for India & Sri Lanka” Indo-Sri Lanka relations have never been what either country would have liked it to be. What both countries should … Continue reading →
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USA’s Delta Force and the Baghdadi Killing
Jon Lockett, in SUN, 28 October 2019, with this title THE special forces unit which hunted down ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is so secretive even the Pentagon doesn’t admit it exists. Delta Force — set up by a US … Continue reading →
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WHO trumps and blunts Trump
ONE: Fair Dinkum Trump has no evidence whatsoever to launch this bizarre attack the WHO. So, why did he do it? As a superpower, the US have always been obsessed with having an enemy or an adversary for domestic political reasons, … Continue reading →
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Sri Lanka’s Foreign Policy Triangle
Austin Fernando, in The Wire, August 2020, where the title reads “Sri Lanka, India and China: Here’s What Keeps Neighbours Friendly – and What Doesn’t” The other day on the show Gravitas, it was claimed that China is pushing Sri Lanka … Continue reading →
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