The Collapse of the American Empire, page-1524

Thank you for your posted links and your commentary.

IMO, our politicians have to be roped-in; megaphoning
war with China or anyone else for that matter is stupid
given the results of Vietnam & the M/E wars.

Picking a spat with a Nuclear Armed country is as silly
as the Aboriginals with spears challenging the Poms with muskets. IMO.

This extreme politics (whatever it takes) is simply not good enough
for the average Aussie wants to "live & let live"

If we dont like China an mistrust the CCP's then as a middle/non-nuke
power economically dependant on China, we should be diversifying
trade day from China so that any US/China conflict will have less
economic impact on us and at the same time weaken China economically.

China has forces us to find alternative markets for our Beef, fish, wine,
barley, wool, cotton etc which leaves us with exports to China in base metals,
Iron Ore, coals etc; raw materials that China has to temporarily rely on.

Our Government rather than spruiking war with China should be working
quietly and diligently with our raw materials exporters to China in order
to :
(a) process some of these materials at home to directly supply our FTA partners
(b) work closely with Japan , Korea & the USA to reverse China's conquest of global manufacturing
(c) foster better trade relations with the EC
(d) economically benefit from the US/China conflict rather than being economically the "fall guy"

Let us hope that the electorate will have the collective sense come the next election
to send politicians a message that there is a better way to deal with China rather than
riding shotgun for Uncle Sam!