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He's a bit of a prick but he's not wrong. I wonder what Rudd would think were he not currently a diplomat.

Both were pretty clear-eyed about the opportunities of working with China and the futility of standing against them given the insignificance of Australia as anything but a weapons platform for the imperial machine of the USA.

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[-] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 days ago

the US. Everything they do, they hurt us.
The US has threatened to invade Canada, Greenland, Mexico and Cuba, recently and currently have a pedo, rapist, felon as President (speaking volumes of it's voting ciitizens). We align with them in some horrific shit like the appaling genocide in Palestine

China has some argy bargy with The Philippines over some shoals in the south china sea, fucked over Tibet and has some border argy bargy with India and will take Taiwan at some stage.

The question of their invasion is ridiculous, they could invade Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and and Myanmar, Pakistan, India, Mongolia, Malaysia, Singapore and Bangladesh tomorrow if they wanted, they are literally next door. New Zealand, Fiji etc would offer zero resistance.

They have zero chance of invading and successfully holding Australia, Russia can't even walk into Ukraine and they are next fucking door.

The US cant be relied upon as an ally at all, it told Ukraine it would defend it if it gave up it's nukes, they said tough shit buddy when they were needed.

Should we be best buddies with China ?, of course not but they should be in the same category as say Vietnam

The only reason we'd even be a target is because of stupid shit like ANKUS and the endless US bases on our soil (in many ways, we're a colony if the US already)

China has zero reason to invade, we already sell them everything they want for way cheaper then an invasion would cost.

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