It is interesting to note that it was China who first said "Trump will win" not based upon what was good or bad for China, but simply based upon the highest quality scientific analysis of the situation. They are doing this all the time, analysing every country, but mostly analysing China. They have more people, and much brighter people, analysing the Australian economy than Australia has. They know what is coming for Australia because they have bothered to invest in knowledge rather than in political rhetoric...and they make very good decisions based upon their analysis rather than upon our outlook, or what we say or what we do in the short, medium, or long term. Because they have this massive amount of knowledge about us, it may be useful, for Australia, to be close to them rather than to plan how to bring them down. They don't need us, but we as a small people, do need them...and we do need their knowledge. You don't get that knowledge by having a US Military Strike force based in Darwin with the sole purpose of stopping China trading ...with us.... That's not how you do business with China. America, as the only Super Power on earth, can fuck around with China, for sure, but we can't do that because we are not a world super power. We are where we are, an entire nation with a population less than one major Chinese city.