Won't too many western people/countries get too concerned if the Chinese start to meddle in Aussie military internal affairs?
USA cannot afford the effort.
PRC are already there, infiltrated into every facet of society.
PRC owns NZ (I saw that while I was there) and control Australian politicians with cash.
I have seen these claims so much, about countries/companies/individuals controlling nations. Seems unlikely it is all false, which begs the question, why are nobody talking about...
government systems that are hard to take over from the outside? I don't know how easy it is to do, probably is hard, but cost of being controlled is huge.
Basics seem to be decentralization, so at least they have to butter up a lot more people. But system also has to be competitive and centralization seem to bring some efficiency
Also, the smaller a govt is, the smaller attack surface, and the smaller attack surface, the cheaper it is to defend. And I suppose the people must be taught about this.
Of course, I know that people today will instead look for "woke" principles like how much we can steal from group X under the guise of fighting X's oppression of the rest, and to
force others to memorize your sexual preference under the guise of treating people with respect and so on. And they will continue to think govt has infinite money for such insanity.
OK, I am not convinced about that one. USA is in a lot of trouble, but so is China, with their huge housing crisis. Also, the main players may be controlling all main nations.
But a perfect storm is brewing, that is for sure.
China has no issues it cannot deal with,
they have the magickal ability to make their problems vanish with no trace left behind.
(exceptions are earthquakes, typhoons, floods,etc)
OK, I am certainly not an expert on this, but here is a walkthrough:
Now, surely, if this bubble bursts at least they have to do something
very drastic, like drop market liberalism or go do a big war (being "police" in Australia will not do I think it has to be a real, and hot war). And even then, leaders will lose much
Taiwan salad is already being prepared.
Let us all hope it ends as gracefully as the 'Malvinas' Falklands debacle did.
So what are you saying that they will do to simply make it go away? This has been kind of the way to get economic problems to go away it seems. Now it is overused and about to burst
Any economic problem they will simply redefine in terms they control.
Such a miracle would be redefining currency with a new banking system.
Over a long weekend, of course
I know China has a history of doing drastic things. However, in an interconnected world, running away from their economic commitments, that can lead to huge problems for them.
Not if who their commitments are to no longer exist
or are no longer capable of meaningful retaliation.
New videos trying to explain who is running covid suggest PRC has a script.
I have seen no such videos. Yes, there are nefarious forces at play, but I had thought CCP is just a pawn in this one. They cannot dictate the whole world (not yet anyway)
Btw, I am saying a lot about this, but I do not really know a lot, I basically just parrot what I have been told.
There are no experts on China, not even Chinese experts.
I speak from a long experience of dealing with the 'expat' end of their culture.
They are not all that predictable. War is.
So what are you saying that they will do to simply make it go away? This has been kind of the way to get economic problems to go away it seems. Now it is overused and about to burst
