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It's so sad that Korean media needs to demonize China and Chinese in order to feel superior.
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Meh..insecure dickwads are the only ones going to take pleasure in bringing other Asians down, especially Chinese since that's the only time some of these types feel secure about their worth. These kinds of people are nothing but a joke.
 
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CNOOC‘s share sale shows that China’s corporate giants are able to access large pools of capital back home if needed, blunting the impact of being exiled from American markets.
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Goddamn if I were an American right now, I would be overloading on Prozac.
 
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Oof, the Solomons Islands deal is sure causing a reaction, the Australians are hyperventilating.

Some of those comments are pretty based:
The Solomons are over 3000 km from Australia, hardly our next door neighbour. If we feel so strongly about the Solomons signing an alliance treaty of some sort with China, do we now have a better appreciation of why Russia reacted when Ukraine (a next door neighbour) wanted to join NATO?
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Let's start by getting the facts straight. China is not a hostile power. Never has been and hopefully never will be. It is our largest trading partner and we are substantially contributing to its economic and military development with our exports while it contributes to our wealth and provides a large proportion of our consumer goods.

Cross words have been spoken and we are currently not talking to each other but the trade goes on substantially unabated (aside from in a few selective areas). The Americans refer to their relationship with China as strategic competition. That has some merit, but we are not really even in strategic competition with China, except indirectly through our close relationship with the US.

The government likes to posture about China being a hostile power, but that is for internal consumption and not because they really believe it. If they really believed there was an actual risk of China threatening our security, they would not be cancelling submarine orders and replacing them an as yet imaginary fleet on the never never. Nor would they be agreeing to lease a Darwin port to China or passively accepting a deal that China has done with the Solomon Islands.

The gullibility of both journalists and the general public when bombarded with hysterical anti-China rhetoric (which happens every few decades) is the most disturbing part of this nonsense. As Paul Keating and Bob Carr have pointed out, it means that we never have a mature and rational discussion about foreign policy but simply run to mummy.

The joke on this occasion is that mummy (the LNP) is suffering a little wardrobe disarray that is showing rather more than she would like us to see.

Rather, they fully understand that China has more than enough on its hands maintaining domestic stability, integrating Hong Kong and finding a way to incorporate Taiwan without embarking on crazy adventures like invading Australia.
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Oof, the Solomons Islands deal is sure causing a reaction, the Australians are hyperventilation.
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Just wait until the massive Chinese fishing fleets go there and starts catching fish on Australian waters lol. that's when the real whining will start.

Time for gray-zone warfare
 
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Oof, the Solomons Islands deal is sure causing a reaction, the Australians are hyperventilating.
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Speaking of hyperventalating Aussies, here's another such article. Not by the Aussies, but by Aussie's colonial master.

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"The deal that shocked the world"

Looks like a huge, and I mean HUGE, bunch of us (including myself) are living on Venus.

Or Mars.

Or Jupiter.

Or Saturn.

Or in another solar system. Or maybe another galaxy.

Or maybe "the world" means her "tiny miny mo, my little world" that exists in her goodnight dreams. Who knows, right?
 
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It's quite good timing and genius move really. If Australia make a big deal out of it and try for coloured revolution or even intervention then the world is left asking "so how is Scott any different from Putin?"

Just 24 hours before the deal was signed Americans said they are sending over Kurt Campbell and their Assistant Secretary of State over there to sort this out. So this deal also managed to make the Americans distrust Australia in its ability to play deputy sheriff in its part of the world. And despite that announcement the deal still went ahead.

If Labor takes over as the government in next month's Australian election I will laugh.
 
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