https://www.theunshackled.net/rundown/how-should-australia-deal-with-the-rising-power-that-is-china/ Breaking the chains of control Thu, 14 Dec 2017 11:22:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.theunshackled.net/rundown/how-should-australia-deal-with-the-rising-power-that-is-china/#comment-1073 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 10:31:00 +0000 http://www.theunshackled.net/?p=6756#comment-1073 This is exactly how a rising empire behaves. Australia has always been a “client state” of one empire or another. First, it was the British Empire, then the American. Successive Australian governments have displayed the famous “Aussie Cringe” when it comes to foreign policy and have always taken the “soft option” – of attaching us to the biggest bully in the playground. It would come as no surprise to me, if the Government changed its stance and made overtures to China. Or maybe they already have been.

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