Could be worse it's demonstrating the concept "if you want #Australia or the #UnitedStates to do something, tell them #China wants to do it" (from the shorter episode on the topic)
We're basically doing everything right, but got the second-dumbest reason
The dumbest reason is to suck up to the #USA the second-dumbest reason is to annoy China. It's second dumbest because it leads to less violence less often, whereas whenever we suck up the the USA #Aussies end up committing war crimes.
I would be 100% in favour of this if not for them recognising #Taiwan that makes me slightly nervous, but hopefully #Tuvalu gain more than we lose by that one.
I am quite fond of China but I don't oppose Taiwan as such, I just strongly believe they're not our problem. We are obliged to help people press fortunate than us, but Taiwan are equally wealthy as is but spend half as much on defence as we do, so they definitely don't need us buying a goddamn ocean going submarine that we don't need to defend ourselves.
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