Godfree Roberts

Educated in Australia and USA. Doctorate from UMass Amherst. Publisher, Here Comes China, weekly newsletter.

[Luke Gromen @LukeGromen]

What we are watching in markets are the first cracks in the illusion that the US can fund $2T deficits in perpetuity, fund debt-funded AI buildouts, reshore the industrial base, fund the Iran war, and roll over existing US Federal debt without YCC or its functional equivalent.

[Solo Monk @JJKALE2]

This Jewish man, Ofir Birenbaum is responsible for staging most of the antisemitic attacks in Australia.

A judge just called him a “Misleading, deceptive”. ‘Undercover Jew’.

Why did @AlboMP reward staged antisemitism with $600m?

[𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 @OopsGuess]

China provided the Philippines with fertilizer and fuel when it needed help most.
And while accepting those supplies, the Philippine defense minister went on stage accusing China of trying to control them.

You were the ones asking China for help.

But the most humiliating part is not even that.

The Philippines was invaded by Imperial Japan.
Bataan Death March.
Japanese occupation.
Manila massacre.
Mass civilian deaths.
Torture.
Humiliation.

That was Filipino blood.

And now its defense secretary stands on stage defending Japan, while attacking China for reminding Asia what Japanese militarism actually did.
This is textbook-perfect self-colonization with a microphone.

China gave the Philippines fertilizer and fuel.
Washington gives it military scripts.
Japan gives it historical amnesia.

And Manila chose to perform for the two countries that either colonized it, occupied it, or still use it as a forward operating pawn.

China was right to ask:
If officials like this keep sabotaging trust, who pays the price?

Not Washington.
Not Tokyo.

Ordinary Filipinos.

Because colonial puppets always perform courage with other people’s lives.

And colonial lackeys never protect their own people.
They protect the leash.

[Godfree Roberts @godfreegmail]

@Brad_Setser Exports are a minor component of China’s economy, as you know very well.

[GBX @GBX_Press]

🚨 JUST IN:

American journalist Ana Kasparian:

​"Israel is a despicable country built on lies and lands drenched in blood."

​The whole world is aware of the truth...

[Poop World Order @PooWorldOrderr]

Indian man thinks his Hindu caste system works outside of India and then finds out...

[Godfree Roberts @godfreegmail]

@georgemagnus1 We can create half-baked industrial policies full of compromises and loopholes but we cannot execute them. We have zero governance ability.

[Jenny Difficult-Frecklington-Jones 🇵🇸🍉🇮🇷 @JonesHowDareYou]

Australians I despise, in no particular order—
Anthony Albanese
Penny Wong
Richard Marles
Tony Burke
Scott Morrison
Tony Abbott
John Howard
Barnaby Joyce
Mark Dreyfus
Gina Rinehart
Pauline Hanson
Mark Leibler
Jillian Segal
Peter Dutton
Alex Downer
Alex Ryvchin
I've run out of spa

[John H aka Corvus coronoides @knarfnamduh]

WOW! Australia has gotten onto a list!
And I suspect we should be closer to the top!
Shame on our Govt! Shame on our Parliament!!
SHAME ON US!!! 😔😔😔

[Barbara Pocock @BarbaraPocock]

3 yrs on & Yates finally takes the fall. For gross, systemic failures, clumsy coverups & attacks on whistleblowers. These guys laugh at Parliament. Time to change the rules. Time for Labor to act on unregulated massive partnerships - who laugh all the way to the bank 🏦💸💵

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

Richard Marles went to Singapore to meet the US and UK about AUKUS and came back with a slap in the face - then pretends it’s good - he was told that if we ever get any Virginia class submarines they will ALL be second hand, none will be new. If that’s the good news … end AUKUS!

[Godfree Roberts @godfreegmail]

@ctindale @YanLian31677392 Whose idea is that, Craig? It’s certainly not China’s.
Face it. You know jack shit about China. You’re a China fraud. A useful shill for capitalism and nothing more.

[Ben Pennings @BenPennings]

🇮🇪 A football commentator in Australia would be hung and quartered for daring this. US, UK and many other nations too. All power to you Richard Sadlier 💚 #FreePalestine #BDS 🇵🇸

[Godfree Roberts @godfreegmail]

@Pieter_de_Pous China has already beaten its 2030 Paris agreement and its coal consumption is falling. What’s your problem?

[Godfree Roberts @godfreegmail]

@aganoch @Rufus87078959 @corner_nov75169 X is not banned in China. Its media have ever lied to its people and its government has never broken a promise to them. Prove me wrong for $50.

[BronWantsChange @BronWants]

David Shoebridge is the most effective politician in Australia.

[Nick Riemer @NickRiemer1]

I read all 756 pages of transcripts from Australia's antisemitism Royal Commission - an invaluable source for understanding how pro-Israel politics is being constructed and defended at the moment, rhetorically, ideologically, emotionally. Thanks to @OverlandJournal for publishing

[Godfree Roberts @GodfreeTrh]

@UNWatch @WHO There is ZERO evidence that the Coronavirus originated in China and massive evidence that it was well established in the USA by Spring, 2019.
You are a troll who defames the WHO. Why?

[TARIK @AkarsuTr]

Hızbullah'ın İsrail askerlerine pususu...

Çocuk katili İsrail'in anlayacağı tek dil budur..

[tphuang @tphuang]

@abcampbell so you are saying they somehow managed to grow at 5% while deleveraging a huge bubble?

Is the goal of global economy to grow at 2% by pumping ever larger bubbles?