David Chu

[Alliance for Citizens Rights 公民权利同盟 @a4citizens]

#公民成长自由谈 推特空间第六期 #澳洲政治体制专辑 将于下周六日倾情推出，敬请期待并感谢您的关注、支持和参与！这期节目我们有幸请来了三位重磅嘉宾：澳洲首位华裔联邦国会众议员，现任墨尔本市议员廖婵娥女士，澳洲News24新闻主播，专栏作家，前天空新闻台主播成蕾女士，和数学老师，私营企业主，2024澳洲市议会参选者楚威先生。成蕾女士将担任本期节目主持人。非常感恩❤️🙏！

#公民成长自由谈 推特空间是我们机构和加拿大公民会从今年四月初开始推出的一个探索对来自极权国家的公民进行西方民主政治教育和公民教育的模组课程节目，目前我们已经推出了五期。尽管在线参与的听众有限，听过节目的网友给我们发来了热情而详细的反馈，我们仔细听取，不断改进中，欢迎大家加盟我们，一起做喜欢探索，喜欢学习，喜欢较真的公民！

#堂堂正正做公民
#明明白白做公民
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@luoshch @CitizensAssemb

[Alliance for Citizens Rights 公民权利同盟 @a4citizens]

大家好！还有三天我们公民成长自由谈的第六期：澳洲政治体制就要开始了。

欢迎大家到时点击链接进入我们的节目，也请大家提前收藏转发，谢谢大家！

@luoshch @CitizensAssemb
https://t.co/VcLEiMrSAw

[David Chu @DavidChuAU]

It is a huge problem.

[Katie Miller @KatieMiller]

Australia’s fertility rate has plummeted.

They’ve hit the lowest rate in history at 1.48 — well below the 2.1 replacement rate.

The average age of mothers was 25 in 1971, and now it’s 32.

This is a human catastrophe.

[Katie Miller @KatieMiller]

Australia’s fertility rate has plummeted.

They’ve hit the lowest rate in history at 1.48 — well below the 2.1 replacement rate.

The average age of mothers was 25 in 1971, and now it’s 32.

This is a human catastrophe.

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

This Australian union advertisement appears to encourage non-English speaking migrant workers to sue aged care providers as a path to permanent residency and citizenship

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Australians are becoming an endangered species

[James E. Thorne @DrJStrategy]

Food for thought.

Trump, Hormuz and the End of the Free Ride

For half a century, Western strategists have known that the Strait of Hormuz is the acute point where energy, sea power and political will intersect. That knowledge is not in dispute. What is new in this war with Iran is that the United States, under Donald Trump, has chosen not to rush to “solve” the problem. In Hegelian terms, he is refusing an easy synthesis in order to force the underlying contradiction to the surface.

The old thesis was simple: the US guarantees open sea lanes in the Gulf, and everyone else structures their economies and politics around that free insurance. Europe and the UK embraced ambitious green policies, ran down hard‑power capabilities and lectured Washington on multilateral virtue, secure in the assumption that American carriers would always appear off Hormuz. The political class behaved as if the American security guarantee were a law of nature, not a contingent choice. Their conduct today is closer to Chamberlain than Churchill: temporising, issuing statements, hoping the storm will pass without a fundamental reordering of their responsibilities.

Trump’s antithesis is to withhold the automatic guarantee at the moment of maximum stress. Militarily, the US can break Iran’s residual ability to contest the Strait; that is not the binding constraint. The point is to delay that act. By allowing a closure or semi‑closure to bite, Trump ensures that the immediate pain is concentrated in exactly the jurisdictions that have most conspicuously free‑ridden on US power: the EU and the UK. Their industries, consumers and energy‑transition assumptions are exposed.

In that context, his reported blunt message to European and British leaders, you need the oil out of the Strait more than we do; why don’t you go and take it? Is not a throwaway line. It is the verbalisation of the antithesis. It openly reverses the traditional presumption that America will carry the burden while its allies emote from the sidelines.

In this dialectic, the prize is not simply the reopening of a chokepoint. The prize is a reordered system in which the United States effectively arbitrages and controls the global flow of oil. A world in which US‑aligned production in the Americas plus a discretionary capability to secure,or not secure, Hormuz places Washington at the centre of the hydrocarbon chessboard. For that strategic end, a rapid restoration of the old status quo would be counterproductive.

A quick, surgical “fix” of Hormuz would short‑circuit the dialectic. If Trump rapidly crushed Iran’s remaining coastal capabilities, swept the mines and escorted tankers back through the Strait, Europe and the UK would heave a sigh of relief and return to business as usual: underfunded militaries, maximalist green posturing and performative disdain for US power, all underwritten by that same power. The contradiction between their dependence and their posture would remain latent.

By declining to supply the synthesis on demand, and by explicitly telling London and Brussels to “go and take it” themselves, Trump forces a reckoning. European and British leaders must confront the fact that their energy systems, their industrial bases and their geopolitical sermons all rest on an American hard‑power foundation they neither finance nor politically respect. The longer the contradiction is allowed to unfold, the stronger the eventual synthesis can be: a new order in which access to secure flows, Hormuz, Venezuela and beyond, is explicitly conditional on real contributions, not assumed as a right.

In that sense, the delay in “taking” the Strait, and the challenge issued to US allies to do it themselves, is not indecision. It is the negative moment Hegel insisted was necessary for history to move. Only by withholding the old guarantee, and by saying so out loud to those who depended on it, can Trump hope to end the free ride.

[坏婆娘🇺🇸 @ying18474850]

美国打过无数次丈，军机被打无数次、历任总统发动战争美军死伤更多，但是川普的战争不可以有伤亡，死伤一个士兵在左货眼里就是输了，换个角度理解，在这帮二缺眼里川普被默认为美国最有能力的总统，因为他的战争不能有伤亡，对比一下芝加哥黑人社区美军是多么安全😏

[Reza Pahlavi @PahlaviReza]

The members of the Iranian Women’s National Football Team are under significant pressure and ongoing threat from the Islamic Republic. As a result of their brave act of civil disobedience in refusing to sing the current regime’s national anthem, they face dire consequences should they return to Iran.

I call on the Australian government to ensure their safety and give them any and all needed support.

[Oli London @OliLondonTV]

Iranian woman slams Democrats:

“Democrats are brainwashed. I don’t understand how you guys can support the killing of 40,000 people over the past 3 weeks…you guys are fake humanitarians.”

🎥 IG: DylanJamesOffical

[Inty News @__Inty__]

卢比奥11年前的神预言！

这是国务卿卢比奥11年前在参议院的预言性发言（反对奥巴马伊核协议）。他逐条预言：伊朗会用解冻资金扩军、造反航母导弹、勾结恐怖组织、最终造出核弹让美国不敢动手——以朝鲜为例，指出一旦伊朗拥核，整个中东将失去可信的军事威慑。他称伊朗最高领袖是"满脑末日幻想的什叶派神棍"，呼吁未来领袖上任第一天就撕毁协议、恢复制裁，否则历史将审判这一代人。

[David Chu @DavidChuAU]

Sign the petition: Save Our Defence Assets https://t.co/1hxVw0Egbf

[Jacinta Nampijinpa @JNampijinpa]

They were calling for terror.
The warnings were there.
Anthony Albanese turned a blind eye.
Now, the eyes of an angry nation are fixed on the Prime Minister.
He must act.

[Sharri Markson @SharriMarkson]

Former Treasurer @JoshFrydenberg calling out the Prime Minister.

[David Chu @DavidChuAU]

@wangdan1989 王老师，
你为了理想一直坚持，忠于为中国人争取自由民主，付出了太多牺牲。自古忠孝难两全，愿老人家安息，节哀顺变！

[The Night Warrior @WarriorNight007]

@elonmusk

[David Chu @DavidChuAU]

@svskywalker @wshngknshji1 不是不得不入民主党，不是不得不接受中共。他们是愿意选择投靠中共。

[David Chu @DavidChuAU]

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[David Chu @DavidChuAU]

Known Labor donor's alleged foreign government links https://t.co/95VJN4xmmV via @YouTube