Dear Foxy,

«Our PM has increased our defence budget.»

He did, this is very good, but still by too little.

«We are ready for whatever comes.»

Sadly not, we do not even have fuel onshore for more than 3 weeks.

«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.»

I think that you are right, and this is why it will first attack non-nuclear countries with conventional weapons, one by one, or two by two, the weakest first.

Yuyutsu, the Chinese couldnt even win a fist fight against Indians. I dont think we need to be too concerned about their ability to wage actual war. They have lots of people. Thats it.

Australia will need to spend a lot more on countering the CCP, but that will again depend on how aggressive the CCP becomes.

The world needs to take heed of how much the CCP is boosting its military force, which I suspect it already is.

The idea that PM Morrison is on top of the issue has a long way to go.

Poor Australia is stuck between wanting Chinese money, and upholding US (Western) strategic needs.

But it is our fault we ever relied on the CCP so much in the first place. It was always a pathetic and lazy economic reliance.

Chris,

You are spot on. It is Chinese cash that has been keeping the Australian economy afloat for the last 30 years. Why do you think we have been bringing in millions of cashed up Chinese, who spend their money on real estate and buying businesses.

It went so far that it has transformed Australia's principal city Sydney into the country's first Chinese city.

I reject the claim that our relationship with China was always based on greed: there was a time when we innocently believed that open trade will help to free them up.

We were wrong alright, we did not predict the future correctly, we were waiting for a Gorbachev but got a Hitler instead: nobody is to blame but now we need to change course, renounce the cash, protect our borders and try to save as many of our trodden friends we can.

me too, not greed, just wishful and naive thinking.

As if an authoritarian nation will ever change without some serious opposition.

Anyone with half a brain knows that power corrupts.

Except the greedy universities. Come on do-gooders, find me the academic literature that saw the filthy CCP coming