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The Brussels-based International Federation of Journalists has issued reports on a steady return by China to harassment of journalists, since a reprieve at the time of the Olympics;and on a “deadly decade” for reporters worldwide. … Read More »
Contributing to events that have detracted from New Year holiday celebrations: another multiple shooting in Finland; the execution in China of a British man believed to have been mentally ill; and a fresh threat against the “Mohammed” cartoonist in Denmark. … Read More »
COMMENTARY: The world climate change conference at Copenhagen (7-18.12.09) produced an accord registering nations’ commitments but not the binding treaty being sought by environmentalist gr0pups and by several, mostly Western, governments. … Read More »
The twentieth anniversary of the shootings at and around Tienanmen square (4.6.09) is being greeted with refreshed horror worldwide, and a certain arrogance in Beijing – where the archived news has been officially called “groundless allegations”.
In this commentary Lee Duffield recalls the moment as seen from another public square, in Europe; and he reprises the information that came out, about the reality of a “Tienanmen Solution” much feared in Eastern Europe, just months after the tragedy in China. … Read More »
European and South-east Asian Ministers meeting in Cambodia (27-29.5.09) are continuing with a definite push for closer “East-West” relations, embarked on during the past month.
At an earlier high-level gathering in Hanoi, the two sides condemned the nuclear test in North Korea – while going ahead with a full agenda on climate change and development. … Read More »
The “G20” economic summit in London (3.4.09) has signaled a change in the way world business activity is to be managed – in its response to the economic crisis.
Lee Duffield sets out to make sense of the claims about how a dinner meeting and set-piece round table by 20 heads of government might make a great difference. … Read More »
The Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, has been speaking of concerns about a worsening of conditions in Eastern Europe, and possible aid from China, in his commentary on the world economy. … Read More »