What a surprise! "China aims to dominate the world"

China aims to dominate the world! And everywhere you look we are helping! With policies that ensure the poor and downtrodden become more so! And the elite class cozying up/doing their biding, for a few dollars more. Be it the sale of a strategic port or the B+R initiative!

Simply put, we can stand up to and compete with China, give our own a reason to expect a fairer deal from our own and not our would-be Masters!

To that end, we need to remove the tin-eared right-wing fascists from all our parliaments! Given they and the commie sympathizer element inside those walls will never ever allow the very social and economic reforms that will serve us instead of them and their corrupt cronies!

So the same caravan and BS that got us where we are today will roll on as long as a hopelessly divided nation allows it! We voted for these tickerless Bar Stewards, so don't complain if what they serve is not to your palate!

I mean when someone like D trump can command such a following and will for possible decades? And only because we focused on making the rich richer and at the expense of those with the least! To the point where the CCP seems a fairer more equitable option?

They've lifted billions out of poverty! We seem to push them into it with insane choice, policies? Then defend them with BS spin?

Go figure!
Alan B.

Alan B.,

China aims to become the leading nation in a world dominated by Chinese peoples, culture and politics.

China doesn't want to be like the United States. It wants to be like the British Empire was, with the sun never setting on a world governed through a great Chinese diaspora.

And it won't tolerate pesky countries like Australia standing in its way.

The Chinese are the second largest ethnic group in Australia and if it wasn't for the covid pandemic and subsequent dispute between China and Australia they would be well on the way to being the main ethnic group that would represent the southern limit of a great Chinese diaspora.

Mr O,

You need to start thinking about your arguments.

Chinese are the second largest ethnic group in Australia, but what do you think they represent in totality of all Australian citizens ad residents?

The other ethnic groups would counter any tendency for Chinese ethnic domination, notwithstanding the reality that many Chinese here identify as Australians.

Keep thinking though. Effort goes a long way towards unravelling your inner potential to think out and make an effective argument.

Oh dear, Oh dear, Sudhanshu: why have you mentioned only China and Islam, omitting my bad neighbour who plays horrible music at night?

Aren't Uighurs Muslim?

Please do not import to Australia your stupid dispute between doubtful followers of Sanatana Dharma and Muslims, between India and Pakistan that once were one country: Mahatma Gandhi gave his life to bring peace and stop that senseless brotherly quarrel. Even Israel is now in the process of making peace with its Muslim neighbours.

Why seek to splinter our forces? We have a formidable enemy in China, but we also have good allies: if we unite we can win!

Australian Muslims are our great asset: should China attack, they will be our best soldiers, having nothing to lose, they will not hesitate to die and become Shahids, bringing most pain and fear to the Chinese in the name of Allah. I wonder how many white Australians would be as brave.

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Dear Chris Lewis,

The author only cares about his petty Indian-version racism, so does anti-yellow Mr. Opinion. Both want to incite us into internal wars that would weaken us, so we can fall like ripe fruit into the claws of our communist Chinese enemy. I would not be surprised if both are found to be secret Chinese agents.

Hi Yuyutsu,

Yes, it is surely better to advocate working together than in looking for spurious reasons for splitting us apart.

I have no skin in the game but I certainly supported the unity of India, rather than its idiotic breaking into - so far - three different sovereign countries. Gandhi got that right.

On the other hand, it's clear to anybody with reasonable intelligence that there never will be anything remotely like a single world government: Iran and Arab countries ? Iran and Israel ? Even Sudan and South Sudan ? Ireland and Great Britain ? The Czech Republic and Slovakia (although that one does sound sensible, perhaps with Poland in the mix: No ?)

Kwame Nkrumah advocated fiercely for one Africa - 'Africa Must Unite' he wrote fifty years ago. So how did that go ?

Certainly, similar systems of equal rights for men and women, for minorities, etc., yes. But that won't require single governments. [Discuss]

But Australia and NZ ? The US and Canada ? The US and Mexico ? China and Japan ?

Move on. Yes, surely it is better that countries - sovereign countries - co-operate rather than go to war. But since merging almost anywhere is so unlikely, then co-operating as sovereign nations is probably the most than can ever be achieved in political relations.

But yes, we do need to work together in the S-E Asian/Southern Asian regions, to contain China back within reasonable bounds. Surely it's possible to bring Vietnam, the Philippines, Thailand, India, Indonesia, South Korea, Japan and the South Pacific nations together as a economic and political bloc ?

Joe