The invitation said: ‘Global Multinational Corporations Summit.’ Main Topic: ‘An opening China and the World.’ So I dutifully packed my bags and headed tor Beijing. There on the 70th floor of the luxurious Shangri-la hotel I found bosses and representatives of about 30 Chinese multinationals who wanted to talk about

Remember the fuss about the ‘stolen generation’ – mainly mixed-race, aborigine children being taken away from their mothers to be raised in Australian families? Thinking at the time saw this as a denial of the child’s aborigine culture, not to mention the feelings of the mother. But a recent article

Vladimir Putin rarely uses English in his speeches. So if in his speech to the recent BRICS meeting in Kazan he insisted the reason for Russia’s 2022 attack on Ukraine was that he was duped (he pronounced it ‘dooped’) by Germany and France in the 2014-5 Minsk Accords then he