France's F should be changed for the C of Cucks.
France's F should be changed for the C of Cucks.
Lethe
Captain
In lengthy article, Hugh White casts foreign minister Penny Wong as a pivotal figure in Australia's evolving approach to the US-China rivalry:
I have nothing to say against Penny Wong, but if we are relying on particularly insightful individuals to make the case for Australia not following Washington into the nuclear abyss, then we are really fucked. If there is no institutional background from which such persons consistently emerge, no configurations of power and interests that sustain them, then they are likely to be ephemeral and inconsequential. On the other side of the ledger, there are certainly deep and well-resourced roots fueling an endless series of "all the way with USA" automatons.
I have nothing to say against Penny Wong, but if we are relying on particularly insightful individuals to make the case for Australia not following Washington into the nuclear abyss, then we are really fucked. If there is no institutional background from which such persons consistently emerge, no configurations of power and interests that sustain them, then they are likely to be ephemeral and inconsequential. On the other side of the ledger, there are certainly deep and well-resourced roots fueling an endless series of "all the way with USA" automatons.
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I largely agree with her views, which this paragraph sums up nicely I think.
"For Wong the correct response to this fundamental power shift is clear. Australia should seek a multipolar order in Asia, she has said, “a multipolar region in which the United States remains deeply and constructively engaged; in which China is a positive contributor; and in which the perspectives and contributions of smaller powers are respected and valued.” That means finding what she called “a settling point” between what she sees as two equally unsustainable extremes: continued US primacy on the one hand, or Chinese hegemony on the other. She was quite explicit about this when she spoke in Jakarta. She rejected “the notion of a binary choice: that the only alternatives are accepting a Chinese-led regional order or unconditional support for US-defined strategic competition with Beijing”. I have italicised that last clause because it so precisely expresses Wong’s repudiation, when she was in Opposition, of the approach that the Albanese government is now taking."
This is the same issue with United States. An inherent belief that a confrontation with China is inevitable to defend the "liberal world order", whatever the hell that means anymore.
Thank you for this post. It explains so much, including why Macron was feted by Xi for three days this week. I'm sure their ministers discussed economic and military investments in
The Ukraine conflict is important but it's a cat's paw. The Taiwan conflict is important but it's a cat's paw. The great power conflict is the Indian Ocean with Southeast Asia to the northeast; Middle East-North Africa to the northwest; East Africa to the west; and all the riches of the world passing through it.
An easy-read starting point for more information is Be sure to click on the interactive map.
I swear this f...ng Richard Heydarian dude is just hella embarrassing in the way he's been simping and cucking hard for U.S. Philippine exceptionalism? What? that statement alone should have this guy's so-called professorship be revoked. The dude is nothing more but an American stenographer it's not a surprise since the man also simps and cucks for ASPI and other western publications and think tanks where he can lend his unoriginal insights, gordon chang takes, and Jai hind like bravado when it comes to the non-existent power and influence of the Philippines in the world of geopolitics.
Lethe
Captain
Today foreign minister Penny Wong addressed the National Press Club and outlined her vision for a "strategic equilibrium" in Asia.
I haven't listened to the full speech yet, but I note that none of the excerpts quoted by The Guardian address the point raised by Hugh White: "She will not be drawn on how far her vision of regional equilibrium differs from America’s objectives."
On Keating's comments:
Of course Keating was ready with a retort...
antiterror13
Brigadier
What did the Chinese ambassador to Israel do that made somebody "killed" him ?
I presume too many good deals that the responsible party could never match?
Bro, he need to earn his keep....lol he is a mouthpieces and like to talk pretty in English even though what he is sprouting are nonsense since his audience are not the locals BUT the elites and foreigners.
