Australia is to offer a path to permanent residency for
thousands of Hong Kong citizens while suspending its
extradition agreement with the city in response to
China's crackdown on personal freedoms and dissent.

The changes apply to people already in Australia (10,000).
And separate efforts will be made to entice businesses
from Hong Kong to move to Australia.

China's threats to Australia continue.

Huge laugh. A mad bat Harvard graduate made a video telling everyone that she would stab anyone who said, "all lives matter".

But - her video came to the attention of Deloitte, the firm that was going to give her a summer internship. They decided that they didn't want anything to do with a person who threatened to kill people who said things she didn't like.

Justice is sweet!

The bat had the gall to then make another video sobbing, and in a fetal position, about how the firm was ' mean and hurtful' to her.

Nothing to do with this topic of course, but not as boring.

Will be interesting to see how angry the CCP will be with Australia accepting HK people.

But the more the CCP raves on and threatens, the worse it will look.

Good luck with being hated by the world CCP. Let's see how far that gets you.

Foxy said,

"China's threats to Australia continue."

And when the threats stop and the action starts where do we run to? Nowhere. We're stuck on this great big island with nowhere to go, 6000 km from anyone who would be in a position to offer shelter.

I doubt if the US will intervene for fear of starting a nuclear war with China and Russia. I can just imagine Trump saying "Sit tight Aussies, we'll get you out. I've got my best people working on it." Yeah right, just like he handled the WuFlu pandemic inside his own nation.

Giving sanctuary to Chinese fleeing China has not only angered the CCP but will now anger the entire Chinese nation and the CCP will turn it into an act of aggression against the nation-state. I said the clue to what will happen lies in understanding the nation-state and it will be interesting to see if I'm correct.

I'm sorry I cannot paint a rosy picture like Foxy and tell you everything will be alright if you think happy thoughts. If you look back over history it always seems that mostly bad things happen in the world.

But don't listen to me because according to Foxy and LOUDmouth I'm just a moron and a troll who doesn't know anything - even though everything I've been saying over the years seems to be coming true. Everything seems to be happening just the way I thought it would.

ttbn,

Why don't you start your own "exciting" thread?

Why come onto this one if it bores you so much?.

Do us all a favour - start your own, and we'll see
how many hits it gets from people who share your
sense of "ëxcitement".

Go on - make yourself, and us, - happy!

Mr O,

Predicting the future is risky at the best of times.

Regarding Australia and China? we still have a very long
way to go.

I think that we're all aware of the dangers of the CCP
and the fact that it calls the shots in China internally
and externally. And the great threat it poses to us all.

But we need to look at the problem from
all angles. The public debate on China needs to be elevated
by those who have the knowledge in how to deal with China.
We don't want to risk another war or conflict.

Nuclear warfare is not an option from which any one of us
will walk free.

Foxy,

As you are aware I have been formally trained in anthropology, history and sociology and I use that knowledge to work out what is happening in my world.

I have been watching things pan out for the past 2-3 decades and I fear the worst. This is the reason I have been so concerned about the extent to which Australia has let the Chinese establish a foothold in the country. When the crunch comes China will be able to draw on a pool of resources including people.

It is the nation-state that we need to fear and right at this moment the CCP is looking at turning its peoples anger into an imperialist juggernaut. The Chinese aggression that is now heading our way is an extension of the two world wars both of which had their roots in the nation-state.

So the way I see it is that we are witnessing the continuation of an historical process centred around the growth of nation-states that began in the late 18th century. It's fascinating to be a witness to it but terrible to know one is going to be on the receiving end of it.

But then I might turn out to be wrong. Keep your fingers crossed.