China has just blocked Australia's application to the WHO to investigate the Chinese Communist Party's imposition of an 80% tariffs on our barley exports.

What most Westerners do no understand is that totalitarian regimes do not see peace and war as separate situations as we do. Even when their is no killing, war is always there, in trade, spying, commercial spying, theft of intellectual property - anything that damages other countries without actual shots being fired. We have allowed these dreadful people into the WHO: now they are manipulating that organisation and breaking the rules.

We have been at war with China ever since the greedy idiots in the West stupidly thought that a totalitarian, Communist country was going to act like everyone else.

ttbn,
Correct all the way !

Not even China has enough clout to block our application to the WHO! Even soo, no sense whatsoever going to war over trade we don't need and can replace. All we need to do is use what we have, MSR thorium and the brains we were born with, to compete with them for their markets.

And given success, sure to produce a less belligerent China still fearful of its own!

It's not too hard, just blocked by recalcitrant tin-eared podium thumping pollies afraid of their own shadows, the fossil fuel lobby, or sane decisive action!?
Alan B.

What a pity. I thought AlanB had gone.

China most certainly does have the clout with BRI and all the other totalitarian crooks in the UN. Waffling about our politicians and fossil fuels instead of blaming Communist thugs indicates a clear incompetence to comment.

Thought thought he had a car, but woke up to find he only had a horn!

Though thought his feet were out of bed, so he got out to put them back again.

D Trump's Lady Lawyer is being sued for millions by those she libeled trying to steal the election. Her defense? Any reasonable person would have known her claims were all BS!

Y'all have a nice day now y'hear.
Alan B.

Whatever happened to the concept of talking softly while carrying a big stick. As opposed to shouting loudly and carrying a twig?

This bloke is, I believe, much like his masters? A boneheaded, tin-eared, recalcitrant idiot who wouldn't know the time of day if it weren't for the clocks?

We do not need armed conflict with anybody we can't beat! Nor loudmouthed idiots hissing into the wind!

What we need is an economic template that is based on thorium and energy prices as low as 1 cent PKWH. That then allows us to compete economically on the world stage with industrial giants and even as we effectively deal with very real climate change as we eliminate endemic generational poverty, while there is still time. Tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock!
Alan B.