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18/03/15

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Originally posted by kjhaze ↑

Looks like we're in, maybe, with a get out if we don't like it clause ... "If the terms are no good, Australia will ultimately walk away."..

"...As The Australian's Greg Sheridan writes Op-Ed,

The decision by the Abbott government to sign on for negotiations to join China’s regional bank, foreshadowed by Tony Abbott at the weekend, represents another defeat for Barack Obama’s diplomacy in Asia.

The Abbott government is right to make this decision. It had well-founded concerns about the vague and unsatisfactory governance arrangements of the institution when Beijing first invited Canberra to join.

Those arrangements have improved since then and Australia is only signing on to negotiate terms of accession.

If the terms are no good, Australia will ultimately walk away.

Canberra’s move follows similar decisions by Britain, Singapore, India and New Zealand.

Make no mistake — all this represents a colossal defeat for the Obama administration’s incompetent, distracted, ham-fisted diplomacy in Asia... "

Sources:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opi...in-eye-for-obama/story-e6frg76f-1227263839030

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-03-16/colossal-defeat-obama-australia-joins-chinas-regional-bank

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kjhaze,

Hard to tell if all the above are extracts from the news article, or some are your own commentary.

If all are extracts from the news articles, those bold sentences and the one that is bold and underlined, are they shown as such in the news article ?
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