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emblem21

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The Australian government has informed Israel's largest private arms company, Elbit Systems, that its military will stop using its Battle Management System (BMS) from mid-June.

"The news was given to the company with no explanation as to the reasoning behind the decision, with Defence confirming that they have no interim solution to replace the capability," the
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website reports.

How are the kangaroos military going to expect themselves to be taken seriously with their pathetic child like threat of War against the Dragon?

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Sooner or later China is going to seriously either bankrupt these idiots and buy australia outright or when the time is right wipe Australia’s military out when australia decides to lol bomb Taiwan in an idiotic mistake. Either way China is going to own australia while doing the absolute minimum. With any luck, the entire australia government and military can be dragged in front of the ICC and the UN for additional humiliation.
 

horse

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In a way this is good, now the whole muslim world can see us hypocrisy, they non stop slandering China on Xinjiang, but when it comes to an actual massacre of muslims in middle east committed by their allies they fell silent or even supported it

This is not about how the whole Muslim world will see the American hypocrisy.

This is confirming in the minds of Muslims everywhere of American intentions.

The racist angle is very potent here.

Blinken is Jewish. This Jewish top politician from America, bashes China about Uighurs Muslims yesterday. Without providing much proof of the allegations. Just like Iraq.

Then today, the same Jewish top politician from America, praises Israel for killing Palestinians.

Every Muslim everywhere, must be thinking the same damn thing.

Only the white Liberal can place themselves into such mental pretzels, thinking that even here they are making the just argument. The reality seems different, that there is no escape hatch, other than looking less than sincere.
 

taxiya

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Woah shit, the Middle East is really shaking up.

I think there's a chance after Israel and Palestine fight it out a bit and get it out of their system China might step in and get them to sit down and agree on a ceasefire. If the ceasefire works it would greatly elevate China's standing in the Middle East as well as diminish the US.

You can already see with Saudi Arabia and Iran that Middle East countries are very tired of the game US is playing.
That is the natural outcome of Wang Yi's visit to the gulf region in March 2021.

The interview of Zhou Jian, Ambassador to Qatar regarding Wang Yi's call for Security and Stability in the region.
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我们要做中东安全的维护者。伊核问题是牵动海湾地区局势的重要因素。在维护海湾地区安全稳定方面,中卡双方有着相似看法。中方支持伊核全面协议得到完整、有效履行,搭建海湾地区多边对话平台旨在回应地区国家安全关切,促进地区国家团结合作,为地区人民打造安全海湾。卡方也一直呼吁构建有效的地区集体安全框架,塔米姆埃米尔曾提议制定海合会国家同伊朗关系基本准则,几天前穆罕默德副首相兼外交大臣还表示卡方致力于为推动双方开启对话营造积极氛围。中方希望卡方积极支持在华举办海湾地区安全多边对话会议,携手推动有关各方加入对话进程,回到以集体协商方式管控危机的正轨,逐步打造共同、综合、合作、可持续的中东安全架构,共同将海湾地区建设成为和平绿洲、安全绿洲。
China proposes a multinational security dialog of gulf countries to be held in China. Qatar has also been promoting a regional security arrangement.

In the Arabic world, Syria and Qatar are with Iran, but they are all at odd with the other Arabic countries. China is the only world power having good relations with both sides and the only one having the economical and military clout to make the arrangement works. Once China endorse this idea, it is only natural for everyone to sign up.

The reason this kind of thing never worked before is that the other world power (USA) did not want it. It wants to crash Iran using Saudi Arabia as a proxy because Iran walked out of the line after the revolution. Even the Palestinian-Israeli conflict could be settled in the same manner. Yitzhak Rabin started a right direction for Israel to finally settle with Palestinian before assassinated and the process reversed. Regardless the assassination, the fundamental cause of his failure is the strong faction in Israel that does not want a peaceful settlement thinking that they can grab more than already, that idea comes from the encouragement of USA who wants Israel to be a proxy rather than having a peaceful life with its neighbors.
 

weig2000

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Australia's former foreign minister Gareth Evans talks with Asia Link on a broad range of foreign policy issues facing Australia. Reminds one that there are actually more normal and sane politicians in Australia, even if the former type.

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On the Future of the ANZUS alliance:

Well, there’s no doubt the alliance does bring benefit and will continue to be bring us benefit for the foreseeable future and I don't for a moment suggest we walk away from the intelligence relationship we have, the logistic support relationship we have, and the potential deterrent effect—however problematic it might increasingly be—of having that big ally there as at least a warning sign for anyone that might be minded to put us to existential military risk is important to have. But the notion of total dependence on the US, to follow the US down every rabbit hole it wants us to engage in, in the interest of alliance solidarity—with Iraq, you know, the invasion being the classic example of a rabbit hole we should never have gone down—I think those days are past.

We just have to recognise that America’s got its own interests, that it's—for all the passion with which the Biden administration is now re-embracing alliance relationships rather than regarding them as irritating encumbrances, which was the case under Trump—for all of that, you know we're not getting much support from American farmers and wine makers in terms of not filling the, you know, the gaps left by the Chinese treatment of us. I mean, America is always going to follow its own interests – whether it's there for us militarily if some catastrophe does erupt in a region, is going to depend entirely on America's assessment of its own interests and we just have to be wide awake to that.

America's far more powerful now and will remain so for the indefinite foreseeable future than was ever the case with Britain, America’s far more obviously a player in our own region, America’s far more obviously a counterweight to an overly aggressive, overly asserting China than the United Kingdom was ever capable of being to Japan or anyone else in our own region. Those are the realities: we’ve got to be conscious of the limitations of that American power, we’ve got to be conscious of the decline of the unipolar moment, we've going to be conscious of the impossibility of the United States just insisting on total primacy, predominance, pre-eminence—the “P words” as I call them—in the region. We've got to recognise, as the United States has to recognise that its future doesn't lie in dominance, it lies in a cooperative, collaborative relationship. And all of that means that we've got to be less reliant, totally reliant, on America. We've got to build our own defence capability and our capacity to protect our own waters – those of the southwest Pacific and our own airspace.

On Managing Relations with China:

Partly it’s a matter of not digging any further holes when you're in one and being very, very cautious about adding to the pile of things that, you know, Beijing has found it difficult to live with. I mean, highly, highly across the board sort of constraints on investment and research collaboration and things of this kind… A highly focused rejection of the Belt and Road Initiative, which I think is basically a lot more harmless than has been painted by those who’ve have been upset by it. So, you don't dig any more holes, you modify your language. I mean, what Talleyrand used to call “excessive zeal” has characterised far too much of our public political discourse over the last few years… Starting with Malcolm Turnbull's famous confrontation of the Chinese with the language of Mao about standing up, through to the mishandling of a whole bunch of issues, including the COVID inquiry and just the Wolverine-type voice which has been more excessive that we've heard from a number of Coalition and, indeed some Labor, parliamentarians than anything that the Wolf Warriors on the Chinese diplomatic side have come up with.

Just a few excerpts, more interesting thoughts follow the link.
 
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