Brian Stoddart explores why Australia has decided to follow an “all or nothing” approach to China that now openly discusses the idea of war.
When the Secretary of Australia’s Department of Home Affairs (who wants to be the Secretary for Defence) tells the nation it should prepare for war with China, the Westminster principles of government and governance are clearly gone, possibly for good.
Danish and Chinese netizens have just shared in a collective guffaw at America’s expense. The online lampoonery came after Denmark announced on March 28 its intent to join the Asian Investment Infrastructure Bank (AIIB), a China-led initiative aiming to provide loans and investment to developing nations in Asia. But the Obama administration’s opposition to the bank U.S. officials, seeming to fear that Beijing’s initiative would reduce U.S. influence in the region, privately discouraged allies from joining has made the Pacific power seem opposed to the $50 billion bank simply because it was China doing the leading. That means the influx of nations now eager to join the upstart leaves the United States with egg on its face.
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