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Fantastically feisty interview with Da Wei @DSORennie you teased out some interesting perspectives. Let’s hope the CCP was watching & listening too.

@TheEconomist @DSORennie LOL at your closing comment about ‘not pegging Bolton as an optimist’ 😂

“They should be scared.” John Bolton, the former national security adviser to Donald Trump, says America’s president would sell out Taiwan for a trade deal with China. Watch the full interview with @DSORennie, our Geopolitics editor, and see Mr Bolton dissect Mr Trump’s America-first foreign policy: econ.st/4rlbFKE

⁦@annabelcrabb⁩ great read. I suppose they could instantly double their female representation by (somehow) inducing all the Independents back into the liberal fold. Not that that’s ever going to happen! abc.net.au/news/2025-07-0…

@MrRexPatrick I beg to differ. I’m no LNP fan, but seriously, who would want to have to lead a country through a pandemic? 🤯 He and the other state leaders did a remarkable job. Very Australian.

The Governor-General and the Council of the Order of Australia have sullied the Australian honours system today. #auspol

@DSORennie A good quote David: “In the end the so-called nation-builders wrecked far more nations than they built, and the interventionalists were intervening in complex societies that they did not even understand themselves.” Hard not to agree with Trump…

China blames U.S. interventions for turmoil in the Middle East and offers trade partners no-lectures, values-free commercial deals. “Snap!” says Donald Trump. “I agree!” My column, The Telegram, about transactional China meeting its match in Trump’s USA economist.com/international/…

@GodfreeTrh @DSORennie Well, they tried hard in Australia, but changed course when that didn’t work.

@DSORennie In your column you say, "Though it is a bully in its backyard, China is cautious farther from home". Where and when, exactly, has China been a bully?

@mattjcan There’s a startup business for everything Matt. Plenty of innovation

The scariest thing about the whole net zero craziness is that it is pushed by people who have no idea how things are made. Nitrogen-based fertilisers (made from natural gas) makes over half the world’s food. Modern life is so comfortable that people just expect everything to be available without any understanding of the enormous effort and technological know-how needed to get it there. More in the CQtoday below.

Good piece by ⁦@latingle⁩ - where to from here? abc.net.au/news/2025-05-2…

Not sure how many people realize that battery storage already supplies 30% of California’s electricity demand at peak. Batteries aren’t the future — they’re here now.

👇Yup “Labor’s extraordinary electoral victory is now coupled with the incomparable political gift of the implosion of the Opposition and a climate and energy-forward crossbench.” Via Climate Energy Finance

TACO = Trump Always Chickens Out 😂 is what’s doing the rounds in the markets

Decarbonizing the last few percent By @MLiebreich mliebreich.substack.com/p/decarbonizin…

… down to the wire with 43 votes - come on people of Bradfield

Tim Wilson in Goldstein down to 292 votes - and falling…

Perhaps Tim Wilson has claimed victory in Goldstein too soon - his lead is down to 401 votes with 7% still remaining

59 votes 🫣 59 votes. 😬

“Had the coalition, when in office in 2015, not scrapped a carbon price, Australia would be collecting A$70bn ($45.2bn) more each year in revenue, says Ross Garnaut” Precisely. economist.com/asia/2025/05/0…

@BrisMarSci @slsandpet All true … except both the polls and the betting markets had him winning until earlier this year

Dutton's legacy is he has planted that final nail into coffin of the Liberal Party. Howard-Abbott-Morrison were mere opening acts in the incompetence & cruelty of Spud. The man who has failed at everything except making money from being an MP. (free share) thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/20707/Vs…

@eward246 @simonahac What an appalling situation. Almost no talent anywhere except a lust for power. That’s not going to cut it. Where will the new opposition that holds the government of the day to account going to come from?

@simonahac What if the Libs had a meeting to decide their new leaders and discovered that nobody had the necessary skills ??!

the dud and the doge. what a team!

@pearlerHQ I’ve asked you to unsubscribe me on multiple occasions. I’ve warned you I’ll report you for SPAM and you acknowledged. You do know what the fines are don’t you? Yet today you email me again. I’m trying not to do this but …