Geopolitical Economics · Capital & Strategy What Washington Did With Mao’s Chinaand What It Actually Cost Nixon’s 1972 opening wasn’t an alliance. It was a transaction. China as a non-Western-aligned regional backstop to the USSR. Fifty years on, the capital arithmetic of that bet, and how it compares to what has already flowed into India, […]
Melbourne is set to welcome two major Anglo-Canto fusion restaurants. Why Anglo-Canto works, but not Anglo-Greek/Italiano
Melbourne is set to welcome two major Anglo-Canto fusion restaurants — each arriving from different directions of the genre, and at different price points. Wishbone Lucas Collective · Chris Lucas Opening Oct 2026 Location McKillop Street laneway, 435 Bourke Street precinct (Midtown CBD) Chef Dan Chan (ex-Yardbird, Hong Kong) Format Multi-story all-day HK-inspired diner Kitchen […]
19 years of service & you wake up & see your Overloads. Rough.
After 19 years at the ABC, you wake up and find out these are your overlords… Meet the ABC Board — Kim Williams AM (Chair), Hugh Marks (Managing Director), Georgie Somerset, Laura Tingle (Staff Elected Director), Louise McElvogue, Nicolette Maury, Katrina Sedgwick. Justin Stevens resigns as ABC director of news after four years in role. […]
China’s Cultural Stack: Multicultural at the Bottom, Monocultural Above Basic Needs
China • Culture • Civilizational Cohesion China’s Cultural Stack: Multicultural at the Bottom, Monocultural Above Basic Needs China’s modern cultural model separates consumption from identity. At the bottom of daily life, foreign brands and imported habits can exist as premium offerings beside local favourites. KFC, Starbucks, McDonald’s, luxury fashion, and global streetwear are accepted because […]
Chaoshan Film Director Sparks Cultural Resurgence Amongst Chinese Singaporeans w. “Love Letter to Ah Ma” (Dear You) – reconnecting the Nanyang diaspora with a shared history of sacrifice, faith, and quiet heroism.
English 中文 Chinese Community · Diaspora Chaoshan Film Director Sparks Cultural Resurgence Among Chinese Singaporeans with “Love Letter to Ah Ma” (Dear You) a tale reconnecting the Nanyang diaspora with a shared history of sacrifice, faith, and quiet heroism. Special Correspondent · May 2026 · Singapore Still from Love Letter to Ah Ma (给阿嬷的情书, English […]
The Hydrocarbon Trap: How the 2026 Energy Crisis Exposed the Fatal Flaw in Western Indo-Pacific Strategy
Geopolitical Analysis | Energy & Strategy | Indo-Pacific The Hydrocarbon Trap How the 2026 Energy Crisis Exposed the Fatal Flaw in Western Indo-Pacific Strategy The India Counterbalance Hypothesis had one core prediction: India’s GDP growth would structurally outpace China’s, driven by a younger demographic, creating a permanent rival Asian power capable of checking Beijing. The […]
The Next Reordering: From Baby Boomers to 1.5 Billion+ Indians
♨ Global Affairs & Analysis The Next Reordering: From Baby Boomersto 1.5 Billion+ Indians Demographic Shift · Global Economics · Energy & Scarcity The post-war era, characterized by the relative stability and expansive industrial output of the Baby Boomer generation, has reached a point of exhaustion. The institutions and internal structures that allowed for Western […]
AI Can Invent Batteries. Only the Road Can Perfect Them.
Eveready Intelligence Series AI Can Invent Batteries.Only the RoadCan Perfect Them. The West is learning a brutal truth about artificial intelligence: it excels at invention and fails at validation. Pharmaceutical companies already use AI to generate novel molecular structures. But no regulator on Earth will approve an AI-designed drug without years of human trials. The […]
The Assimilation Tax: How the Capital Gains Tax Changes in the 2026 Budget Punish the Newly Arrived Working to Become Australian
✦ ✦ ✦ Oztrayan Government Deparment of Hoam Affares & Smol Bizniss Ministerial Statement Small Business Migration 23 May 2026 · Canberra, ACT The Assimilation Tax: How the Capital Gains Tax Changes in the 2026 Budget Punish the Newly Arrived Working to Become Australian The Government’s capital gains tax changes are not a housing policy. […]
The AIPAC like Lobby Reshaping Western Borders. Immigration-for-Market-Access Swap: Why India Is Embedding Migration Quotas into Western Trade Deals
ICE U.S. Immigraton & Custums Enforcment Departmant of Homeland Securty • Policy Anaylsis Division Policy Analysis • Trade & Migration The AIPAC like Lobby Reshaping Western Borders. Immigration-for-Market-Access Swap: Why India Is Embedding Migration Quotas into Western Trade Deals Fig. 1 — Lobbying Relationship Network / Active Agreements The China Precedent and India’s Adaptation When […]
Mao’s Malthusian Gamble May Become Modi’s Relief
Analysis & Commentary Mao’s Malthusian Gamble May Become Modi’s Relief Exporting Women as Economic Relief? Half a century separates two crises, but the calculus may be the same. In 1973, during landmark talks with Henry Kissinger, Chinese Chairman Mao Zedong made a startling proposition. China was poor, he said, with little to export. “What we […]
Nations and Their Alter Egos
Nations and Their Alter Egos Some countries are so culturally, institutionally, and temperamentally similar that swapping their core governing bodies would barely register in daily life. Others are so different that the same swap would trigger immediate, visible rupture. This is the concept of national alter egos — nations that function as near-interchangeable versions of […]
