Originally Posted by
Lead Balloon
Indeed, dr dre.
China could easily discard Australia. It may choose to do so. Do you have a ‘Plan B’ for that contingency?
The future (or by some metrics current) world power should be the market we aim to sell our products to the most. Our country is an Asian-Pacific one. Not a European or American one. Via the BRI China will dominate trade through Eurasia and the Pacific. All of Australia’s neighbours and trading partners. There’s evidence now that even traditional Chinese adversaries like Japan are warming their relationships with China. So either we join the Asia Pacific region fully or we become a pointless little outpost in the middle of nowhere.
Maybe a non Chinese trade pact could’ve been made via the TPP but the orange one decided to pull out so any chance of the waning world power having substantial influence in the Asia Pacific died at that point.
So my “Plan B” is to develop and strengthen our links to China and the Asia Pacific over any others. Not have ridiculous scaremongering directed against them by some elements of our government and media.