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B.I.B. said:

That is going to be a hard task with Morrison support at historical highs 62%plus. I can see him staying in as PM for at least another term and with the Replublicans in with a chance to occupy the White House in 2025, who knows what's going to happen.
China's reliance on Australian ore for the intermediate term at least won't make it easy.

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As long as Morrison sustain his staunch anti China policy, he got a good chance for another term. The general public is willing to take economic pains as long as his policy is aimed against China or at least not favouring China. He never criticised Trump/US which favour him now and in 4 years time when Trump is back as POTUS.
The success of controlling Covid virus also boost his popularity but this is due to state governments policies which are usually at odds with Morrison's federal government.
The opposition is a little more level-headed against China so they loss a lot of votes to Morrison. Yes, he will be around for a while and getting more confident ( not necessary competence).

Chish said:

As long as Morrison sustain his staunch anti China policy, he got a good chance for another term. The general public is willing to take economic pains as long as his policy is aimed against China or at least not favouring China. He never criticised Trump/US which favour him now and in 4 years time when Trump is back as POTUS.
The success of controlling Covid virus also boost his popularity but this is due to state governments policies which are usually at odds with Morrison's federal government.
The opposition is a little more level-headed against China so they loss a lot of votes to Morrison. Yes, he will be around for a while and getting more confident ( not necessary competence).

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Clash of civilizations. No end game in sight

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Boris a "fervently sinophile"?
Nah, he speaks with forked tongue. Remember his Huawei 5G turned around and his coming G7 meeting agenda?

Khalij e Fars said:

Ignoring your entirely unsubstantiated and rather disgusting aspersions against Jamal Khashoggi, what made his murder shocking was the fact that a foreign US-allied leader (MBS) ordered the murder of a US resident journalist, and the method of his execution (his body has still not been found).

Police violence leading to a low tier criminal is also disgusting, but George Floyd's killing receive huge attention in the media and in mainstream discourse - has the far more shocking killing of Khashoggi had the same effect?

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Dolcevita said:

Jamal Khashoggi did not deserve to be killed and vanish without a trace. This much is true.

I think J17wang is saying that journalist by profession are taking risk when reporting negatively on powerful people. Journalist like Jamal knows that they are taking risk when they offend powerful people and hence are not totally ignorant and innocent of this professional risk.
Both killings are equally reprehensible. But unfortunately, the western media gets to dictate the intensity of coverage and expected outrage based on western interest.

In the case of Jamal Khashoggi, the western interest is not to offend MBS too much. MBS is still a useful actor for western interest.

In the case George Floyd, the western interest is to manage the outrage resulting from irrefutable evidence. Hence, the mainstream media had to cover the atrocious murder and manage the narrative to show token outrage. In the end, nothing had fundamentally changed and outrage has been successfully managed.

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The fact that you think the crime against George Floyd is much less relevant that the killing of Jamal Kashoggi says more about you than me.

I'm rather interested in your views on racial equality, especially considering you just labeled an un-armed innocent African American man a "low tier criminal". Care to share some back-up support on how you arrived at such an unsubstantiated conclusion?

I think Dolcevita's summarizes my point quite well.

Oldschool said:

Clash of civilizations. No end game in sight

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The side who is united, focus on itself is the one who is going to win
And we all know who that is

Nobonita Barua said:

I love how they always throw the words "US" & "Allies" together

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I have so many questions.
So Europe is decoupling from US ?
US and Europe are not going to depend on Samsung and TSMC while this two companies are blocked from trading with China due to US entity list?
Japan and Korea are not best friends, so Japan have to depend on their own chips?
And China is decoupling from US?
So everyone win or lose?
Trump, if you are lurking here, please explain.

Chish said:

As long as Morrison sustain his staunch anti China policy, he got a good chance for another term. The general public is willing to take economic pains as long as his policy is aimed against China or at least not favouring China. He never criticised Trump/US which favour him now and in 4 years time when Trump is back as POTUS.
The success of controlling Covid virus also boost his popularity but this is due to state governments policies which are usually at odds with Morrison's federal government.
The opposition is a little more level-headed against China so they loss a lot of votes to Morrison. Yes, he will be around for a while and getting more confident ( not necessary competence).

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Australia is still in its feel good phase because they have the uk, Canada and USA backing them and also that nothing has actually sunk in just yet. But mark my words, should these nations ensure a real economic shit storm that causes enough problems that will hamper there ability to project force abroad, and if australia is actually sanctioned for real, suddenly australia will no longer have the balls to throw its weight around and if for example China or Russia gets Africa, South America and the Middle East (which I assure you are no friends of Australia in any way and form) to really push back and enforce the isolation, well suddenly people will be demanding Scomo’s head and the majority of the people to fold under threat of an actual crisis that no one in The west at this point will be bothered to help out.
Australia has never been hit before, but once the hit sets in, it will not have many options available and I can almost guarantee that China will take this time to pick australia apart

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“One reason you see more emphasis on China and less on the Middle East is China is up close and personal with us. Our lives have been changed because of the virus.”

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fatfuk needs to go, along with the rest of them, nuclear war or not

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So it was him?

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fatfuk needs to go, along with the rest of them, nuclear war or not

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You have to understand Pompeo "logic", he knows darn well the Virus wasn't from China lab leak or anything like that nor is it in any way the fault of China, quite the opposite actually. His complaint is that by China growing too strong and refusing to kowtow, it forced America to make "certain decisions" cough cough... It's like the rapists blaming the victim for dressing up too nicely.