IMO we hvae to be more circumspect in our relations with both the USA & China rather than riding shotgun on Uncle Sam's anti-China coach ,
In the longer term we should gradually wean ourselves off being economically dependant on China and dependant on the USA for our national Security..ie being independent.
To finance our independance we simply have to tax our resources and compel multinationals (all 800 of them) to pay their fail share of Aus tax even if that means imposing a turnover tax on them rather than the current regime which is evidently not working.
IMO we should be offering our Foreign Affairs Ministry as mediator:
IMO the AUKUS gig is simply a ploy to engineer Aus electorate agreement for US Nuke Subs to be based in Perth & Darwin because by 2045 when the Subs are due, that we'll already have had a US/China warrior the USA will have to retreat away from Asia due China's increasing military power. So the sane thing for Aus is to be mediator thereby avoiding being a Nuke target.
We simply have to accepr that China is on the rise: -It has theworld's biggest GDP (PPP) since 2016 and growing -It commands 30% of Global manufacturing -It commands 30% of Global Trade
Unlike the USA it has cut trade deals with 130 countries in the form of ots BRI and its developing a Euraisin form of NATO in its SCO
