Strategically, one of our dumbest decisions, page-43

We're spending billions $'s to protect our trade routes to China,...from China?
That's the joke

The subs that won't be around for 20 odd years grabbed the headline but an alliance of Western nations just declared itself opposed to Chinese pretensions after the humiliating events of Afghanistan.
Australia has decided to back the USA and oppose Chinese control of the region.
Wonder if we will stop sending China raw materials and let others supply them.


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Beijing’s enormous Belt and Road investment plan is designed to stitch together its own system of alliances.
Donald Trump put the US alliance system at risk.
AUKUS reminds everyone that the US alliance system remains alive and relevant while China’s is still under construction.