And yet, in more recent years, poll after poll says Australian voters now trust America not China. Tsk tsk. Send them all off to the ANU for the correct re-education.

The biggest sponsor for terrorism is not America, it's the West collectively through lack of foresight unintended consequences.
Germany's push for opening Europe's borders was was a real stroke of luck for intended terrorism. All instigated by highly educated experts without common sense. The Woke are sending whole Nations into suicide mode & the "educated" are celebrating causing their own downfall ! They just don't know it yet !

Incorrect, while there have been a few itchy finger triggers, by a few rogue operators. That's not the US.

Nor can we label any democracy as a terrorist nation, that description belongs to nations led by a single dictatorial strongman or radical Islamists. Examples include, Russia and Iran.
Alan B.

Richard's assertion that the US is easily the world's most dangerous terrorist organization is certainly true, see:
http://thirdworldtraveler.com/Blum/KillingHope_page.html

But much of the rest of his essay is definitely questionable especially in regards to the social and economic freedoms of the masses. It is effectively a 24/7 surveillance state and a hugely enormous environmental disaster zone too. Its continued prosperity depends on plundering the undeveloped countries even while pretending to help develop them.

IMHO both the US and Israel rank equally for the title.

You are all just waffling around the problem of terrorism.
I suggest you just you just fire up your search engine and look for
Robert Spencer's book "The History of Jihad". Then buy it.
You will then understand most of what is going on not just in the
Middle East but in the "West" in general.
Having read it I know how impossible it is to get a conventional
settlement between the Islamist Arabs and Israel and Western Democracies in general.
So stop arguing about irrelevancies and get to the knub of the problem.

Excellent article!
And yes, so disappointing that Labor refuse to stand up to the US and to chart an independent foreign policy and defence position. We should not be endlessly and aggressively talking up the China threat. We should not be part of the provocative and unnecessary AUKUS alliance. We do not need to gift billions of dollars to US defence contractors and weapons manufacturers to produce nuclear-powered subs and unmanned warships for the purpose of patrolling Chinese waters. We should not have US military bases and troops on our soil. The US is using Australia as a spearhead in its Pivot to Asia campaign to threaten and contain China. And unfortunately, Australian governments (with the exception of Whitlam and to some extent Keating) have been too stupid to realise they’re being played.

Stand up to the US? We should standing BY the US much more than we are now if we don’t want to be toast. Donald Trump won't tolerate Albanese’s sh-t.

The USA has many problems, they are in deep trouble and are certainly not saints, but that does not warrant or render true this article of false and unabated Chinese propaganda.

FREE TIBET!

Bronwyn
That reply is one sad & frightening example of some saturation hood-winked Woke !

"The China-initiated Belt and Road Initiative is a proven success. "

Is this a comedy piece? The recent conflict in the middle east was probably planned by Russia to draw focus from its unprovoked attempted terrorist takeover of Ukraine. Were it not for the only political terrorist in the United States, Donald Trump, Ukraine would not be denied military support to defend itself against Russia's genocidal barbarism, supported with military hardware from BRICS nations, including a secret shipment of artillery shells from RSA.

There's money to be made from hypocrisy & peoples' suffering. Indoctrinated & indoctrinating journalists are big winners in that insidious game.

OBAMA - was funding Iran giving them millions of dollars a year.

PRES TRUMP- came to power and stopped the payments to Iran, understanding it was Iran funding Hamas and other terrorist groups in the middle East. Things were a lot more peaceful in the middle East under Pres Trump

BIDEN became president and started up those payments to Iran again.
I could only scratch my head and ask why? théy would fund Iran

BIDEN responsible for oil prices and inflation NOT The Ukraine War

BIDEN. caused the world gas and oil price hike when he caused a world
shortage of cheap oil and gas by shutting down a couple of the big
American pipelines that Pr TRump had built to make America self sufficient in oil and gas.

PR Trump had also questioned NATO countries like Germany why they were buying oil and gas from Russia. He said." Why are you.making yourselves energy dependent on Russia why don't you buy your oil from your ally. America.

NATO then did a deal with Trump and they.were buying pretty cheap oil and gas from. America at $49 a barrel causing Russia to shut down their supply to Germany and NATO.

About three months or so after Biden became President he suddenly reversed the oil and gas sales from America and handed the sales back
to Russia.it caused a shortage of oil and gas worldwide and the price of oil doubled to $114 dollars a barrel and then to $149 barrel causing lots of inflation.

It was hardly reported anywhere but I saw. It in a small news article online. Once again I thought why the bloody hell would an American
President cancel revenue coming to. America and hand it to Putin?

Did they have some motive for giving Putin enough money to lure him
into a war in Ukraine?
It ended up that Germany was actually funding Putin in Ukraine because they were depending on Russia for their energy supplies.

It wasn't until some months later that they started to blame inflated oil prices on Putinand the war in Ukraine.
But Biden did it months before
I still puzzle over it.

As far as I'm aware, Trump didn't start a war & he most likely would have prevented the Ukraine tragedy had the hypocrites not ousted him.