Politics Should Australia move towards a stronger China relationship?

[Pessimistic]

It always amuses me how we have this debate without referencing the immense amount of natural resources we sit on which the powers in the world need access to.

We have a lot in common with the gulf states really. It’s so much more significant than who we have defence pacts with.
In that sense we are relatively insignificant.


Worst case would be for the US to have a huge confrontation with China, then go back into its shell leaving countries like Australia to try to put it back together

 

[Jibroni]

We have a strong trading relationship with China politically we are no more than a client state. I personally do not believe in countries but Globalisation of the Planet. However we are still a couple of centuries away unless technology gets us there quicker. China will take over the land mass called Australia when is the question.

Agree China already has their tentacles over some key assets in the Country, the rest will come sooner than we think, probably 2050.

 

[Gigantic]

And now we've also replicated their surveillance laws

https://amp.smh.com.au/national/nsw...0181019-p50atw.html?__twitter_impression=true

NSW police and crime agencies are preparing to use a new national facial recognition system to rapidly match pictures of people captured on CCTV with their driver’s licence photo, to detect criminals and identity theft.

Under new laws the federal and state governments will be able to access data and photos from passports, driver licences, and visas for a national facial recognition system called the “National Facial Biometric Matching Capability”

The Department of Home Affairs has been compiling the database for what is known as “The Capability". Unlike the controversial My Health Record, people can’t opt out of their details being included in the system.

 

[CheapCharlie]

Internet traffic heading to Australia was diverted via mainland China over a six-day period last year, in what some experts believe may have enabled a targeted data theft.

The diverted traffic from Europe and North America was logged as a routing error by the state-owned China Telecom, according to data released for the first time by researchers at Tel Aviv University and the Naval War College in the US.
https://www.smh.com.au/technology/h...ralia-s-internet-traffic-20181120-p50h80.html

 

[TheHeatleyStand]

Agree China already has their tentacles over some key assets in the Country, the rest will come sooner than we think, probably 2050.

we have our tentacles over Timor

 

[ShanDog]

we have our tentacles over Timor

Well, mostly over the water surrounding it. And the things under it.