The think tank behind Australia’s changing view of China

The Australian Strategic Policy Institute has played a central role in the breakdown of consensus on Beijing. Its critics accuse it of fomenting hysteria.
— Read on www.afr.com/policy/foreign-affairs/the-think-tank-behind-australia-s-changing-view-of-china-20200131-p53wgp

Neoliberals trying to avoid helping out the plebs, again! Maybe if they’d stop funding crap like this, they could repair the infrastructure?!

US delegation to visit Ankara for talks on Syria

During their visit, the U.S. delegation is also expected to meet representatives of the UN and NGOs to discuss the humanitarian crisis of some one million refugees fleeing attacks by the Assad regime and its allies in Idlib, northwestern Syria.

Turkey on Sunday launched Operation Spring Shield after at least 34 Turkish soldiers were martyred and dozens injured in an Assad regime airstrike in Idlib, a de-escalation zone in northwestern Syria, just across Turkey’s southern border.

Turkey’s only target during the operation is Assad regime soldiers and elements in Idlib under the nation’s right to self-defense, stressed Defense Minister Hulusi Akar.
— Read on www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/us-delegation-to-visit-ankara-for-talks-on-syria/1751418

Humanitarian aid = Overthrow a government.