So Julie is worried about our loss of trade with China.China is seeking other sources of energy and resources in Africa and South America.We have angered them by allowing increasing US military presence here.What do you expect? Both Paul Keating and Malcolm Fraser have warned against this US military policy of trying to contain China.

The so called 911 terrorists came from Saudi Arabia.Zibigniew Brezezinski had a close relationship with Osama Bin Ladin in giving the USSR their own Vietnam war.Afghanistan has over a $ trillion worth in Lithium needed for the battery industry.It is also on route for the oil pipeline from Turkmenistan.It is also strategically important to the USA in containing China.

It is time Julie for us to start speaking the truth.China, Russia Syria, Nth Korea and Iran are not our enemies.Our enemies are the Oligarchs who rule us.President Dwight Eisenhower warned us about the Military Industrial Complex and we have not taken heed.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/brics-challenges-unipolar-world-and-us-dollar-hegemony/5329590

Dear Arjay,

<<China, Russia Syria, Nth Korea and Iran are not our enemies.>>

Australia is blessed with perhaps the fewest enemies in the world, but that's not the issue here and it's not about interests (which sadly seems all that Julie Bishop is concerned about): the rulers of the above countries are the enemies of their own people - if we are to cooperate with their oppression and give them power, some of that karma will also be upon us.

Yuyutsu the West is no longer the leader in democracy or freedom.Obama has just past a bill excluding Monsanto from litigation.A private corp body is now a law unto itself.

Add into the mix The Patriot Act.Preventative Detention,NDAA and legalised assassination of suspected terrorists and we are looking worse China or Russia.

"the West is no longer the leader in democracy or freedom"

So who would that be? Perhaps Kenya, Russia?

Dear Arjay,

<<Yuyutsu the West is no longer the leader in democracy or freedom.>>

Perhaps so, but it's a red herring.

I can see that you are keen on the topic of corruption of democracy in the U.S.A, but you tend to insert it in unrelated discussions (including blaming small Israel for the crimes of big America - Israel has done some wrong things of course, but it is not responsible for what America does).

In opposition to the common idiom, "In Rome do as the Romans do", Hillel, the one who also formulated the golden rule: "What you hate, do not do to your fellow", also said: "where there are no men, be a man" (http://latter-rain.com/nt/hillel.htm).

Even if the rulers of each and every country around the globe oppress their populations, that gives us no moral license to support such rulers - and if our economic "interests" are hurt as a result, then so be it, we just need to re-learn to make it alone.

<<Obama has just past a bill excluding Monsanto from litigation.A private corp body is now a law unto itself.>>

That raises the case (which would be good to discuss on its own) of adding Obama to our black-list, not for taking China, Syria, Iran and North-Korea off it.

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