When the war comes, WA is going to fall into the sea

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Does anybody remember the good old days when the real face of the CCP was revealed in the 14 conditions to end democracy? Back then even the treasonous AFR could no longer print CCP propaganda. Because the truth could no longer be denied.

But, here we are two short years later, and, once again, it’s back to the One Man War on China conducted by yours truly.

How can a nation that claims “maturity” swing about so wildly in its strategic calculations? It can’t. We are not mature. We are a pack of greedy little children.

To wit:

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West Australian Deputy Premier Roger Cook says the country’s economic prosperity relies on Australia being able to maintain a mature relationship with China despite national security and trade frictions.

Mr Cook told The Australian Financial Review Mining Summit in Perth on Wednesday that state and federal government regulatory regimes also needed to remain predictable for the country’s largest export partner.

This is not “maturity”. It is treason rebadged. Every other developed market on earth is running as far from China as fast as it can to derisk its supply chains.

Ironically, none of them has been threatened by China in the way Australia has. But the Australian example, along with the Ukraine War, has helped show them what is coming.

Yet not here. Not at the very heart of China’s post-COVID global assault. I have described at length why this is: ALP corruption, LNP chasing ethnic Chinese votes, Dutch disease etc.

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Today let me add one more: Western Australia. This fucktard state is so bloated on Chinese largesse that it is completely blind to what is coming as it takes shape.

On Monday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited the Pacific Island nation of Papua New Guinea as part of the Biden administration’s anti-China effort, and the two countries signed a new military treaty and a surveillance arrangement.

The DCA will “replace an outdated Status of Forces Agreement and Memorandum of Understanding regarding defence cooperation,” as stated by a State Department official.

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Officials in Papua New Guinea have said the DCA will allow the US military access to ports and airports, which might lead to the construction of US bases, although details of the agreement have not been made public. On Sunday, PNG Prime Minister James Marape said that he expected the number of American troops and contractors working in PNG to increase consistently over the next 15 years.

There will be “certainly” be an expanded and more direct presence of the US in our country, he claimed, but he did not specify how many military or contractors were involved.

Under the terms of the separate surveillance arrangement, the United States Coast Guard will be able to patrol the 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of Papua New Guinea. Blinken and Marape state that the purpose of the surveillance setup is to “help combat illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing.”

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The United States is seen as responding to China’s negotiations of a security treaty with the nearby Solomon Islands through the accords with Papua New Guinea. U.S. military leaders have also said these initiatives are part of a larger strategy to combat China in the future.

As well, assuming it develops into a naval base, it will enhance the US’s ability to blockade Aussie trade routes to China and keep its greedy, little satrap in line.

I do not know what kind of conflict it will be between China and global liberal states. But conflict is more likely than not.

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This is not because we wish it. Nor because of anything we have done. Everybody has bent over backward to have a “mature” relationship with China.

The problem is the CCP. It is a tyranny given legitimacy only via rising living standards. Now that process has stalled because easy debt-charged growth is over and the only way to keep going is to liberalise further which the CCP cannot do by definition.

So, the CCP has only one other option. It must ramp up the violence internally and externally to create nationalism as the basis for legitmacy. Both of which are well-advanced.

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When whatever war starts, the first response from the liberal allies, the Asian NATO as it were, will be immediately to blockade all trade routes to China, most especially for warmongering items such as iron ore.

And Western Australia will fall into the sea.

About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.