John Fitzpatrick. About New China, the Koreas, Myanmar, Thailand, and also about Japanese and Chinese writers and poets. The main emphasis is on North Asia and the political tectonics of this very important, powerful, and many-peopled area.
Wednesday, 9 October 2019
It amazes me, really. This anti-China thing that Australia has going at the moment. Why is China so bad right now? Because Donald Trump doesn't like them...that's the only reason...and the whole free media machine is instantly on the case. Pathetic. Australia is formulating ideas about how to deal with China etc...goodness me, for fuck's sake, we don't have a voice in any of that. America tells us when to trade, who to trade with, tells us our moralities and who we must support etc...and, for the size that Australia is, China doesn't care anyway. Tiny countries don't tell huge countries what to do, never have, never will. we are so full of ourselves to the exception of all others, and to the exception of reality itself. We'll be ok as long as we have stuff to dig up and sell them...that's how Australia has been for 25 years. That's why we have a reasonable, if falling, first world economy...thats why we still have pensions, an education system, a health system etc...because of China...no other reason. Nothing we've done for ourselves.... We still have stuff to sell. The rest is wanky rubbish-thinking.
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