(2025) Worlds Within Worlds of Chinese Communism

Review article published in the Sydney Institute Review, September 2025, of Linda Jaivin’s Bombard the Headquarters! The Cultural Revolution in China, Old Street Publishing [and also Black Inc.], 2025; & Joseph Torigian’s The Party’s Interests Come First. The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping, Stanford University Press, 2025. These two books, written about…

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Why Palestinian Recognition is Both Inevitable and Fraught

Australian public opinion in favour of recognition of a state of Palestine is clear. Continuing opposition could merely hasten a form of recognition that would be tantamount to an empty gesture. What is now required is for those genuinely seeking a two-state solution, that enables Palestinians and Israelis to live side-by-side in peace, is to provide a robust, realist edge to what Foreign Minister Wong calls the “matter of when, not if” decision.

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