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Book Review: The Avoidable War by Kevin Rudd

As the title of the book suggests, the author believes meeting jaw to jaw would be far better than catastrophic conflict and war between the US and China. He also lays out in painstaking detail no less than 10 different scenarios, as a "cautionary guide" to policy makers navigating the dangerous waters in the decade ahead.

ME
9 Apr 2022
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Bill and Gary in Somerset

Supporting Gary Wong and Bill Revans in Somerset

Cllr Gary Wong is standing for election in May 2022 with Bill Revans to be the Somerset Councillors for the North Petherton Division. Both are committed local councillors who live in the area and work hard to help people in our communities.

2 Apr 2022
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Amanda Jeyaretnam

Amanda Jeyaretnam reporting back from Spring Conference

Last weekend The English Council of the Liberal Democrats met, giving us an opportunity to hear the report of the Federal Conference Committee. This spring was my fourth conference but my first experience of helping run a booth. In this case the virtual booth for the Chinese Liberal Democrats. I was surprised to hear at the ECC meeting that a lot of the booths and staffing areas such as the help desk, seem to have been under-utilised because I had an overwhelmingly positive experience in our booth.

31 Mar 2022
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Benedict Rogers HK Watch

Hong Kong Watch

When HK's National Security Legislation (NSL) was unveiled on 30 June 2020 by Beijing by way of an annexure to the Basic Law (Hongkong's mini Constitution), Chief Executive Carrie Lam assured HongKongers that it would only be used in rare and extreme cases where there were real threats to the security of Hong Kong.

ME
21 Mar 2022
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Gok Wan on CBeebies

CBeebies and Diversity

Some months ago CLD Chair Cllr Sarah Cheung Johnson started an online petition for CBeebies Bedtime Stories to finally feature a narrator from a Chinese, East and SE Asian background.

19 Mar 2022
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