Foxy,

Thanks for the article I agree with all of it. You only have to compare China to Taiwan to see how China could have been without the communists.

shonkysinister,

As I don't have the same opinion as you on China, you resort to the name calling and attempted insult, water off a ducks back. The answer to the China problem for the World is not belligerence and sabre-rattling leading to war, but rather dialogue and cooperation. Unlike you, I don't have some sycophantic adulation for America. You happily accept mass killings and gendercide by "your" side whilst condemning same by the "other" side, I don't engage in some easy tit for tat exercise but rather condemn both. You want to go down the same old path of condemnation leading to war, history shows us the failure of that folly, Korea, Vietnam, Middle East and Afghanistan should have taught us a lesson, but it seems not, we still have the warmongers and supporters of mass murder, people like you.

So crybaby Pauliar,

First, you dish out the insults and then weep when you get served back. Secondly, I don't recall any mass murders from "my side" for nearly a century. It would appear that you are the only supporter of mass murder on this site.

Secondly, mostly what I have posted about China are well-documented facts and the opinions are of high-level analysts, not just me. But you are entitled to your brainfart opinion.

As for sabre rattling, the western action is in response to the Chinese sabre rattling.

Labor won't be going to the next election thinking about China. The increasingly idiotic Albanese has just announced that climate change - the very thing that lost the ALP the last election - is the most important thing on his agenda,

Albanese continues to be the best chance for that other idiot, Morrison, to continue his also useless reign.

There is speculation this morning in Canberra that the government is about to dump the French submarine. More evidence for China of our pathetic lack of defence; our inability to make sensible decisions. It's the fall of our own country we should be talking about, not China's.

Not mentioned by the rumour-mongers is the News's report that our government has announced a deal with the US and UK for Australian submarines to go nuclear.

Hopefuls are branding the idea as "China's worst nightmare". Hmmm.

It's getting harder all the time to predict what we will get next from our erratic, unreliable government. Some would say that's a good thing, but you can bet that the CCP knows what our government will do before we do.