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?
All those instructors are digging career graves, if not for themselves for those aspiring to be instructors in the future. China will find a new location to train their pilots. It’s a place called “China”.
As I said before, all those Australian-trained Chinese pilots are taking the know-how back home. It’s like the Australian farmers who are exporting herd cattle to China. One day China will say thanks for the know how (and the cattle), we now have the critical mass to do this ourselves, and goodbye.
There are short-term gains from sucking up to China. A lot of keyboard heroes are not willing to admit the long-term consequences of doing so.
Some of us desire a thriving flying training industry that’s training Australians to meet the demands of what should be a thriving general aviation sector in Australia. Unfortunately for the long-term interests of Australia (and flying instructors), the place is run on the basis of the the laziest way to the quickest bucks (and cheapest flat-screen TVs).
Enjoying the read, strongly agree with you.
Good points from Muttley too. China is everybody's largest trading partner at the moment. You can see their impact in the Pacific and Africa particularly. This is unsustainable. IMHO, they have gone as far as they can go, as long as they remain a militarist, expansionist, communist state. Covid is causing much of the world to withdraw supply chains from China and the CCP face growing isolation as a result of the economic crisis that has resulted. China's relative importance will slip as more open, more ethically aligned and increasingly prosperous democracies such as India and Indonesia rise. The CCP hegemon gorilla is likely to face economic and military containment from alliances that have already been formed, led by the other big hegemon 800-pound gorilla.