There are several levers china could activate like they did during the trade dispute with Aus under scomo. Agriculture and food industry is one. when scomo followed trump in attacking China during height of covid outbreak, ties were soured badly. Imports of Aus wine, lobsters and other produce were cut or outright banned. Ironically before this period there was hope in Aus that they could export their food and animal products to the huge Chinese market. many have seen the mining boom slowly over and hope to open other markets. Of course we know now how this is going. unless unexpected developments occur I feel, Aus will also try to decouple to follow US agenda.
Another hugely profitable source is the Chinese international students. There is already talks of Aus wanting to limit their numbers from anti Chinese groups. Another would be property. Chinese are already the scapegoat for increasing property prices. Although during Covid border closure this was largely disproven, it will be a convenient reason again. I think China has some moves left in their sleeves to unleash if it really becomes an issue.
If I were Chinese intelligence and Australia was captured by Pompeo/ScoNo types with no hope of a return to normalcy, I would commence a series of Cold War type black ops equivalent to what the US has done to destabilise it’s enemies.
For eg Australia has seasonal bushfires, and with climate change, greater flooding as well. In fact, Australia could be knocked out of any potential war with massive wildfires courtesy of incendiary IRBMs, any potential Australian reserves would have to be designated to beat back wildfires compared to manning the defensive lines.
tl:dr, cheapskate who didn't do the testing because it was expensive. Ignored repeated warnings including from his own suppliers.
Stockton Rush was a former engineer that got an MBA and went to work for McDonnell Douglas. By all accounts, this is what people from MDD (AKA New Boeing) do, so par for the course I guess.
The biggest myth since the 80s has been that privatisation would lead to better kit, products and services. Utter BS.
The Anglo American regime has failed, they cannot stop an idea whose time has come: the end of Anglo hegemony.