Carl Worker
@carlworker
Auckland small business owner. Retired NZ diplomat. Former Ambassador to China, CT Amb, Amb to Argentina, C-G in Hong Kong, and Chargé in Washington DC.
BREAKING: Turkey has officially signed a major defense deal with Indonesia to sell 48 5th-generation KAAN fighter jets. The deal valued $10 billion and this marks Turkey’s first historic export agreement for the aircraft.
Sir Keir Starmer is coming under even more pressure to immediately recognise Palestine as a state Read more🔗 trib.al/AT5E7qA
They say there’s no starvation in Gaza” — while people are crushed rushing for a single bag of flour
Exclusive: The former senior CIA officer who helped oversee the 2017 intelligence assessment on Russia’s interference in the 2016 election says DNI Tulsi Gabbard and the White House are “lying” when they claim that it was an attempt to sabotage President Trump.…
BREAKING: Obama’s CIA Director John Brennan BLASTS Tulsi Gabbard for politicizing America’s intelligence agencies to benefit Trump. Brennan rightly points out that Gabbard was on the outs a few weeks ago. She is doing this Obama stunt to keep her job.
for the first time we have Antarctica mentioned in the AUKMIN Statement. 🇦🇺🇬🇧 + in geostrategic terms. huge. "Ministers discussed the increasing geostrategic, climatic, and resource pressures on the Antarctic and Southern Ocean region and reaffirmed their shared and…
#France 🇫🇷 has made a very important decision to recognise #Palestine as a state. At @TheElders, we have advocated for recognition as a transformational step in encouraging a peace process. The onus is now on other holdouts like #NZ to move on this bbc.com/news/articles/…
习近平接受外国新任驻华大使递交国书 paper.people.com.cn/rmrbhwb/pc/con… NZ Ambassador to China @jaustinNZ presents his credentials in Beijing
Trump Is Shifting to Dealmaking Mode on China—White House puts a priority on doing business with Beijing as it prepares for bilateral talks next week @Lingling_Wei wsj.com/economy/trade/…
Spotify - open.spotify.com/episode/4bWW4c… Apple - podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/sam…
Perplexity gave me the following summary: Sam Roggeveen’s *Echidna Strategy* proposes a significant shift in Australia’s defence and foreign policy by advocating for self-reliance and a focus on regional diplomacy, rather than continued dependence on the United States. Below is…
French President Emmanuel Macron had been pushing for France and its G7 allies, the UK and Canada, to recognise Palestinian statehood. But London and Ottawa “did not want to face the wrath of the United States”, reports Reuters. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/qep46z
surprising to this worthy, at least, who has now apparently found a haven thanks to Team Soros now that NED funding gonzo
Two hours into the vote-counting process, most of the 24 legislators from #Taiwan's main opposition party, @kuomintang, look to be safe from the mass recall campaign against them, marking a surprising yet resounding electoral victory for the KMT.
Every day, the horrors in Gaza reach new, unimaginable depths. And as starvation spreads, Netanyahu and Trump remain complicit in a scheme to use US taxpayer dollars to replace humanitarian aid orgs with mercenaries — leading to more death and devastation. This cannot continue.…
China releases AI action plan days after the U.S. as global tech race heats up cnbc.com/2025/07/26/chi…
China just launched a global AI body to rival the West. It's real, it's open to the Global South, and it's based in Shanghai. China Announces Launch Of AI International Development Body - Bloomberg share.google/RhkQET6HEkH9mC…
When you see extremely Zionist CNN is literally cooking Israel so hard for straight 4 minutes you know that the situtation is far worse than what you know
A positive sign after days of fighting on the Thai-Cambodia border: rnz.co.nz/news/world/568…
.@GavinNewsom: "I'm sick of it... This party needs to wake up. These guys aren't screwing around. And I say this not in a literal sense, but they're assassins when it comes to the way they weaponize grievance and the way they play politics. Enough. I mean, what more goddamn…