Pompeo threats over Victoria’s Belt and Road - Politics Forum.org | PoFo

Wandering the information superhighway, he came upon the last refuge of civilization, PoFo, the only forum on the internet ...

Political issues and parties from Japan to Turkmenistan to New Zealand.

Moderator: PoFo Asia & Australasia Mods

Forum rules: No one line posts please. This is an international political discussion forum moderated in English, so please post in English only. Thank you.
#15093934
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-24/ ... l/12280956

You know what? I’ve had it to the back teeth of wannabe superpowers trying to throw their weight around. If it isn’t China bullying Australia it’s the fucking US.

Guess what, take you’re shitty resource company’s and fuck off.
#15094578
Australia is caught between a rock and a hard place. This is not, however, a surprise. Those in the know have seen it coming for awhile. Inevitably, China and America are going to fight, and they will both do everything they can to get Australia in their own sphere.

Geopolitically, securing Australia is essential to both powers ambition to control SE Asia. China must secure its trade routes through S E Asia. Australia is the prefect base for the US to project power into SE Asia. Also, Chinese nuclear subs must pass through the Lombok Straight, as the Sunda and Malacca Straights are too shallow, in war time. Australian territory is a great place to operate anti submarine platforms from to patrol that route.

The resources are just the icing on the cake for China, and not terribly relevant for America.

You’d think Australia’s political class would have thought ahead to avoid this. But no. They are out of their dept. The Federal government has started to realise this, but the state governments don’t have specialised foreign affairs departments or any understanding of geopolitics. So they still think they can do anything they like.

Foreign policy and defence is a Federal responsibility. So premiers like Andrews have been putting the whole country at risk with their amateurish international activities. I think it is time to reintroduce treason laws to keep people like Andrews accountable.
#15094580
foxdemon wrote:Australia is caught between a rock and a hard place. This is not, however, a surprise. Those in the know have seen it coming for awhile. Inevitably, China and America are going to fight, and they will both do everything they can to get Australia in their own sphere.

Geopolitically, securing Australia is essential to both powers ambition to control SE Asia. China must secure its trade routes through S E Asia. Australia is the prefect base for the US to project power into SE Asia. Also, Chinese nuclear subs must pass through the Lombok Straight, as the Sunda and Malacca Straights are too shallow, in war time. Australian territory is a great place to operate anti submarine platforms from to patrol that route.

The resources are just the icing on the cake for China, and not terribly relevant for America.

You’d think Australia’s political class would have thought ahead to avoid this. But no. They are out of their dept. The Federal government has started to realise this, but the state governments don’t have specialised foreign affairs departments or any understanding of geopolitics. So they still think they can do anything they like.

Foreign policy and defence is a Federal responsibility. So premiers like Andrews have been putting the whole country at risk with their amateurish international activities. I think it is time to reintroduce treason laws to keep people like Andrews accountable.


Our Australian political class has a depth to be out of? I think calling them shallow is misleading as promotes the idea they have some depth.

if the federal Government cannot be bothered to regulate international relations as they have the power to do it;s not the state premiers fault, they could have ruled out the Darwin port sale. They did not.

We should at least be charging the US hefty rent for their bases.

'

EU is not prepared on nuclear war, but Russia,[…]

It is implausible that the IDF could not or would[…]

Moving on to the next misuse of language that sho[…]

There is no reason to have a state at all unless w[…]