Ok MR O, I will answer your own question because you appear largely incapable.

No, Australia should keep its warships there.

Chris Lewis,

Good on ya mate! Let's join hands and sing

C'mon Aussie C'mon C'mon
C'mon Aussie C'mon C'mon

Sing up Foul-Mouth. Sing up Foxy. Sing up david f. You can't stay in the pro-China camp forever.

MR O, when are you actually going to express your Arts prowess?

I have been waiting, waiting and waiting.

China obviously does not want to do business with Australia, so we
should cancel all trade agreements and concentrate on the rest of the world.
Recall the coal ships, unload and sell to our power stations.
Nationalise the 50% of the Newcastle Coal Loader that a Chinese company owns.
This will not hurt as much as many believe. $90billion of our trade
with China is 9% of our GDP.
For our self respect sake we must pull the plug on China.

I believe China's attitude to other countries is racially based.
I have no personal experience of this but I have noticed most
Chinese owned companies have only Chinese employees.
I note that Bing Lee is an exception.
It maybe because of their lack of an alphabet and their language.

The attitude of the Chinese government to other countries is based
on racial superiority as expressed by the tradition of Tianxai.

Tianxia (Chinese: 天下) is a Chinese term for an ancient Chinese cultural concept that denoted either the entire geographical world or the metaphysical realm of mortals, and later became associated with political sovereignty. In ancient China, tianxia denoted the lands, space, and area divinely appointed to the Emperor by universal and well-defined principles of order. The center of this land was directly apportioned to the Imperial court, forming the center of a world view that centered on the Imperial court and went concentrically outward to major and minor officials and then the common citizens, tributary states, and finally ending with fringe "barbarians".

Sound familiar ?

Project Syndicate/Zhang Jun, A Tale of Two Chinese Cities, Nov 23, 2020:

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/shanghai-shenzhen-engines-of-china-development-by-zhang-jun-2020-11

Project Syndicate/Andrew Sheng and Xiao Geng, Division or Dialogue with China?, Nov 26, 2020

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/us-biden-demonize-china-dialogue-by-andrew-sheng-and-xiao-geng-202...

Yoshimichi Moriyama

MR O, when are you actually going to express your Arts prowess?
Chris lewis,
It never will ! I have the feeling it's someone with no sense whatsoever who just tries to derail debates !