Marla wrote on Nov 15
th, 2016 at 1:41am:
Canberra under Trump will continue to be Washington’s little bitch especially when Trump decides to start smacking with the Chinese in the ways he has promised. Yes, Canberra will be America's puppet enshrining American dominance over the Asia-Pacific region while America itself continues to rot and decay. Australia and its financial and corporate conglomerates stand to benefit a lot from Trump while America's working class will continue to be screwed.
Well, yes, Australia has always been the most indefatigable ally of the US and we love to prove it whenever we can... You could say, since WW2, that Australia has been the crypto- / quasi- union of (undeclared) US states,
But we're emerging into in a new world now.
One that includes a China that is no longer weak and isolated but sees its hegemony in the Western Pacific as its destiny...
China will insist on its expanded role in our region... And Trump, with his many promises to 'rejuvenate the US, with all its attendant implications towards a 1920's style American isolationism, will be pressured by the Chinese to grant them their perceived 'birthright'...
Should we hope for Trump a Johnsonesque doctrine? When, as it turned out, he lept, life a falling angel, from the Olympic heights of a civil rights god-President to the depths of demonised and failed war President (all within 4 years)? Who went from "All the way with LBJ" to "Lying Bastard Johnson"...
Or would a Trump at war with China, to constrain Chinese expansionism, prove him to be the Martian war President Johnson hoped he, himself, would become through victory in Vietnam?
Will Trump deem it in US national interests to attempt to hold back the tide of Sinicization of the Western Pacific or will he kowtow?
(Cue theme from 'Soap').
Good point North.
Due to the fact that australian governments want to employ people in fake jobs in the public service etc, the only way to finance this is to sell the farm to China.
So big government, leftie socialists are empowering China and they wont need to invade us to control us, they will be employing your grandchildren on slave wages after Canberra sells the farm to provide for the entitled baby boomers of today.
Inter generational theft, as MR Abbott so correctly labelled it.
Its our selfishness and entitlement that will make us slaves to China. I'd rather we became the 52 nd state of the USA to be honest. Trump is far less ruthless then the central planning committee in Beijing