Jamie Seidel

1 week ago | news.com.au | Jamie Seidel

The sight of a Chinese bomber carrying a heavy new type of hypersonic missile has heightened fears that it has found a way to counter America’s most potent weapon – its 80,000-tonne nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. The Trump administration’s controversial Secretary of Defence Peter Hegseth has told US media that the United States Navy and Marine Corps “loses to China in every war game”.

2 weeks ago | news.com.au | Jamie Seidel

Two tough-talking leaders. Two nations struggling with internal turmoil. Both armed with nuclear weapons. It’s quickly adding up to be a zero-sum crisis. India and Pakistan are again on the brink of war after a terrorist attack in the troubled state of Kashmir killed 26 tourists — mostly Hindu Indians — and triggered a deadly blame game between the disgruntled neighbours. “India will identify and punish every terrorist and their backers. We will pursue them to the ends of the earth.

3 weeks ago | news.com.au | Jamie Seidel

European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen is blunt in her appraisal of US Donald Trump’s bid to reshape the world order. “If I had been asked a few years ago if this kind of situation were possible, I would never have believed it,” she said in an interview with Germany’s Die Zeit weekly newspaper. “When the (Berlin) Wall fell in 1990, the end of history was proclaimed. Now history is back, and so are geopolitics.”Democratic backsliding. Constitutional crises. Trade wars. Up-ended values.

3 weeks ago | news.com.au | Jamie Seidel

Never fear. Come the apocalypse, Elon Musk is here - with a legion of offspring ready to rebuild civilisation in his image. “Low birthrates will end civilisation,” the world’s richest man posted to his personal social media platform, X, on Tuesday. The South African-Canadian-American billionaire, however, is digging for victory. He’s reportedly fathered at least 14 children with four different women. And an investigation by the Wall Street Journal suggests there may be many more.

3 weeks ago | news.com.au | Jamie Seidel

US President Donald Trump wants to get what he pays for. And that includes his preferred brand of university graduates and scientists. To get them, he’s willing to take on the wealthiest independent educational institution in the world. Harvard University has been issued a list of demands that it must meet – or have $US9 billion in government grants and funding cut. Existing diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) programs must be revoked.