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Originally Posted by MITCHAY
Russia is ****ed off with us over MH17 so they have their own grudges.
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I think Russia will side with whoever can pull them out of their economic woes. And considering it was "the west" that imposed various sanctions, its hard to see them being on "the west" side. I think they will be on their own, and will use China where they can. China and Russia's trade in NON USD hit a record high in 2019. Funny thing is, EU is following suit. They are all shifting to their own currencies. It won't be long till USD is no longer just the standard to use, in which time, sanctions won't be as effective anymore.
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Originally Posted by GasoLane
But on the plus side, it seems 'the world' is getting tired of China's tactics.
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The propaganda war is not targeting the western "world", its not targeting you or me, its targeting the likes of Middle east, Africa and Asia Pacific. These are regions which traditionally have some form of distrust of "the west" and they are using it as leverage. The "drink wine to support Australia" motion, in some parts of the world its being sold as "the west toasting to Afghan war crimes", even though the two are completely unrelated. Did people miss the news from The Guardian? The timing of the story and footage is mind boggling.
Unfortunately Australia is smack bang in Asia Pacific, and thats where we should be focusing. Note, China and PNG just signed a fishery deal. This COULD allow chinese vessels to start fishing right next door to us in the future. China and Indonesia just signed some sort of mega copper port deal, there is talks Indonesia may eventually allow China to have boots on the ground. China and Japan just agreed to reduce trade tariffs, this is despite Japan being one of the staunchest allies of the US, with large numbers of US troops based on their soil. How the heck did they manage that? If Japan can do it, why can't we?
At some stage you gotta ask how we got into this mess, and more importantly, how do we get out of it. But is seems broaching anywhere near this topic means you might be on the "wrong side", so around and around we go.