Hi Jimmy2Shoes,

I totally agree - we are lucky to have a PM who's
listening to and taking the advice he's being given.
So far we've been fortunate in this country. Not only
regarding the government's handling of the pandemic,
but more recently, in their dealings with China.

We can only hope that this will continue.

Hi Foxy, Im not politically partisan and like to give people the benefit of the doubt. Scott Morrison is proving he is extremely capable in my opinion. And if Australia cops a bit of economic stress, so what? Maybe this generation who have never experienced a recession in their whole life will come out of this a bit more educated about life in the long term. The world is undoubtedly plunging into recession which may take 10 years or more to recover from, despite this we are still amongst the luckiest people in the world at this time. Our current generation needs to understand how lucky they are and baby boomers really need to stop whinging. We had it good, now its going to get bad and it is our responsibility to shepherd our younger people through this. Not their fault they grew up in a time of unprecedented prosperity.

more funny stuff.

Morison will have to listen to what the US does.

There is no way that Australia can adopt a policy of its own in this environment.

But hang on, soon academia will be coming out with lovey dovey stuff how we can all live together in harmony.

How nice. How sweet

The China government imprisons Uighurs, runs a Hong Kong
administration that assaults its own people, detains
Australian citizens without charge for months, hacks
Australian agencies and claims and militarises the South
China Sea - then accuses Australia of "interference" in
its internal affairs.

Our PM seems to have a careful argument for expecting more
from China as a military superpower and the world's 2nd
largest economy. He believes that Australian interests lie
in telling China the old ways cannot continue.

This is a good thing. And this approach needs to be maintained.
Because as stated on another discussion - if the success
or failure of every Australian foreign policy is measured
by the shrillness of a China official then every policy
would end in failure.

Dear Foxy,

«China agreed to "One Country - two systems" regarding Hong Kong.»

This was when they were weaker.
It gave them time, now they laugh at it.

They laugh at us, still selling them iron, to make them even stronger.
And selling us back their short-lived toys, which kill our own production.

But this is to change soon.
I believe it to be a matter of just a few months until all trade and diplomatic connections are severed between Australia and China.

All Australians remaining in China, including Hong-Kong, will then be kept as hostages.

Their next major step will be to call on all Chinese in Australia, including their Australian-born descendants, including Australian citizens who never visited China, to "return". About half will, then families of those who fail to obey will be punished, losing their jobs and homes, eventually their lives, so about half of the remaining will also be "convinced".

Next they will issue an ultimatum for Australia to forcibly return those "lost sheep" or theirs, the remaining quarter. When we refuse, they will start sinking Australian vessels and blocking fuel-tankers from arriving in Australia, then eventually they will send an armada to collect their "stray flock" themselves (and massacre anyone who stands in their way).

Do not expect America, under any presidency, to offer us any more than a symbolic help - they have too many problems of their own.

We should be ready, much earlier than Morrison is planning. The time-frame for all this to unfold is only about a year.

«Scott Morrison simply needs
to stand firm. He knows he's right in what he's doing.
And China needs to back off.»

We all know that he is right and we are right behind him.
But China will not back off, we need to be ready for war, much sooner than we would like.

Dear Yuyutsu,

Our PM has increased our defence budget.

We are ready for whatever comes.

But I still think that China is not as strong
internally as she makes out to be. I think that
she has her own internal problems to deal with
and will not want a full scale nuclear war -
from which no one will walk away a winner.