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  1. Admiral Byng

    Politics 'China's financial system could collapse': What the Reserve Bank's Evergrande bombshell means for Australia

    This is a real problem, and it has been brewing for a long time. China does not have a "properly" developed financial and regulatory system like we see in most other developed nations. It is a bit of a mess and mired in corruption and politics. The root causes are firstly that regional and city...
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    C'wealth Future of the CWG

    There are 54 countries in the Commonwealth of Nations. 33 are of them are republics, 16 of them have Queen Elizabeth II as Head of State, 5 of them have their pwn local monarchies. So Commonwealth countries with QEII as HoS are firmly in the minority.
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    Asia Is a US-China war about to break out?

    Completely false equivalences going one here. Under Xi Jing Pooh's leadership the Communist Party has made a hard handbrake turn away from the path of peaceful progress to nationalism and aggression. If you haven't noticed, you haven't been paying attention. The CCP want complete control over...
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    The Inevitable War - Keating goes bang

    They are not going to storm the beaches of Australia. But if they decide to get silly with any country, it will take a combined effort of many nations to stop them. Australia will be a contributor to any such multi-national force. We will be tasked with closing off one of the sea routes to...
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    The Inevitable War - Keating goes bang

    Yes I know.But the provocation might lead to foreseen consequences. The other thing they need to stop doing is airspace incursions over their near neighbours. It only takes for one plane to be shot down for a crisis to emerge. They have been doing it on the daily for the last year or so.
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    The Inevitable War - Keating goes bang

    Ask them. I can't understand it either, but there have been clashes in the last year where soldiers on both sides died. It seems China is at fault by slowly and persistently encroaching on neutral territory there.
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    The Inevitable War - Keating goes bang

    No war is inevitable. But a lot of it depends upon China. As long as they don't attack Taiwan, or try to assert physical control over the West Philippines Sea by controlling/restricting international shipping within their nine-turds line. Also, that they do not attack India. If war breaks out...
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    Victorian independence - is it inevitable?

    I thought secessionist movements are restricted to WA and Tasmania. Seems very out of place for Victoria to be doing it too. Maybe it should be a movement to expel NSW from the Federation? Or seven some sort of serious discussion about re-working the Federation? Before Covid I was broadly in...
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    Thoughts on Australia as a nuclear power?

    The noises coming out of France to me suggests that they viewed the Australian purchase of French submarines as an extension of French foreign policy. Like they expected a say in when or where they were deployed. I was thinking it was more a commercial contract for the supply of submarines...
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    Thoughts on Australia as a nuclear power?

    There is no proper way of cancelling such a big deal. You're damned whichever way you do it. Obviously you can't cancel the diesel sub program unless you know for sure that you are going to get access to the nuclear propulsion technology from the US and UK. So you have to ask and negotiate that...
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    Thoughts on Australia as a nuclear power?

    oh, it is a right mess of course. Just the usual thing for Australian politicians. But I don't buy any of this stuff about it being a political decision to win an election, or to deflect from Christian Porter's woes. You don't get to buy top secret nuclear secrets from the USA just on a whim to...
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    Thoughts on Australia as a nuclear power?

    The French response seems a bit out of proportion to the cancellation of a commercial contract. Seems like they are more pissed off at the yanks than they are with us. They are also making noises like they thought this submarine contract was more about building French influence in the...
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    Christian Porter

    About bloody time. But he should still be explaining to the Parliament, even as a backbencher, the true source of the money. This is what the register of interests for MPs is for, not just for ministers. One step at a time I guess. He should be hounded till he either divulges the true source...
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    Thoughts on Australia as a nuclear power?

    I don't share your pessimism. The same dynamic that worked in China over the last 25 years is going to play out again in these other countries. Setting up labour intensive industries is going to draw the rural poor into the cities in search of work. These workers are going to need housing, water...
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    Thoughts on Australia as a nuclear power?

    Whatever the cause, it is still a discernible trend and likely grow further in the future. This is the emerging market opportunity we need to diversify our trade and not be so reliant upon China.
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    Thoughts on Australia as a nuclear power?

    It is easy to Google a phrase and cherry-pick a few headlines. In the last 2 years, Samsung electronics has withdrawn from China and set up production in Vietnam and India. Apple are doing the same, moving to Vietnam. Ditto Panasonic, Toshiba, Nike, Hyundai/Kia... and others. It is happening.
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    Thoughts on Australia as a nuclear power?

    China didn't do it all on their own, Direct Foreign Investment played a huge part in getting their economic miracle going. DFI into China will all but disappear over the next few years because of Xi's antics, and it will be diverted to other countries in the region, ASEAN and India. Expect those...
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    Thoughts on Australia as a nuclear power?

    You're not getting it. The prospect of war in Taiwan is not of Dutton's choosing, it is China wanting to take over Taiwan. Deterrence is the only way of stopping Chinese aggression against Taiwan. Dutton is not driving this, it is China. It is China's choice whether to invade Taiwan or not...
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    Thoughts on Australia as a nuclear power?

    No. It is cold war and deterrence to stop CCP aggression, or open CCP aggression.... for as long as Xi is in charge. Invading China is off the agenda. Best we can hope for is a moderate faction to depose Xi and make some reforms. Also - Just watch FDI flee China over the next 5 years and...
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    Thoughts on Australia as a nuclear power?

    Nobody is seeking to invade and conquer China. The great hope for the last two decades was that China opening up to international trade and DFI would see a gradual shift away from authoritarian rule there towards democracy, the rule of law and freedom etc... all the things we value. That China...
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    Thoughts on Australia as a nuclear power?

    The new cold war is not about left versus right in terms of economic model. It is democracy versus tyranny in terms of governance.
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    Thoughts on Australia as a nuclear power?

    Bullshit. It is time to extract your head from the lower reaches of your gastrointestinal tract and have a fresh look at reality. This is not some bullshit left versus right pseudo political topic that seems to frame political "debate" on social media. This is real. Xi are a menace, and he has...
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    Thoughts on Australia as a nuclear power?

    I think there's a lot of people in this thread walking around with their eyes closed in relation China. Thinking that China are some sort of peaceful trading nation minding their own business in the face of western aggression. Quite the opposite. Since Winnie the Pooh took over as president...
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    Thoughts on Australia as a nuclear power?

    I feel a it sorry for the French. We have screwed them over just a bit.
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    Thoughts on Australia as a nuclear power?

    I think Australia needs to get out of the mindset that we can keep ordering things that are bespoke or heavily modified for our own use. We should favour buying off the shelf stuff.
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    Thoughts on Australia as a nuclear power?

    Australia has a trading relationship with everyone.
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    Thoughts on Australia as a nuclear power?

    I reckon if we buy an off-the-shelf design like the Virginia Class from the US the first boat will be in service earlier than if we had continued with the French boat. The US have been building them since the early 2000s, and plan to keep production going until at least 2040. They have already...
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    WA moving to 1 vote, 1 value in the Upper House

    The current system is not about giving regional voters a voice or anything noble like that. It is about stacking the Upper House with Liberal and National party members thereby retaining control of the Upper House even if they lose an election in the Lower House. It is about blocking any reforms...
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    Thoughts on Australia as a nuclear power?

    I am broadly in favour of this. We can't be friends with a country like China. Because they do not want our friendship. We are fooling ourselves if we think we can walk some middle ground in playing off China and the USA against each other. China are dangerous. It is time to pick a side.
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