China

[capcom]

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202204/1258719.shtml

The message is abundantly clear.   

[LP]

Fans of TV serial The Blacklist will recognise an unerringly family message to the early Season 9 episodes about why Taiwan is so critical.

[Baggers]

Fans of TV serial The Blacklist will recognise an unerringly family message to the early Season 9 episodes about why Taiwan is so critical.

Oo yeah! Sweating on the remaining season 9 episodes... now that the 'band is back together'. So hard to find really engrossing Series' with intriguing, relevant, global and credible characters... well, believable exaggeration, let's say. Also loved Homeland and Sinners, though quite different.

Anyway, as for China and Taiwan...  and the US... troubling times ahead.

[ElwoodBlues1]

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202204/1258719.shtml

The message is abundantly clear.   

They are an expansionist country and won't let Taiwan go, with Russia trying it's luck in Ukraine it's no surprise to me that the Chinese think it's an opportunity to push some boundaries.
Let's hope Xi has more brains than that war mongering journo...

[Thryleon]

Lots of electronics come out of Taiwan.  This could cause a lot of mayhem for us here.

[ElwoodBlues1]

https://au.yahoo.com/news/china-wants-10...39983.html
China just continuing its push into the Pacific while Joe and Albo buddy up in Japan.

[Mav]

In an alternative universe, this problem would never have developed as the Trans-Pacific Partnership was essentially a geo-political play by the USA to create a politico-economic bloc capable of resisting China. It did so by giving Pacific nations good economic deals which would have strengthened the bond with the USA.

That brilliant strategist Trump didn't like it b/c the USA wasn't screwing the other countries so that it won bigly. Oh, and he didn't like it because of the global conspiracy (Soros and the Jews).

After ripping up the TPP, he then set about alienating any allies and insisting he'd only do deals which made the USA (or his cronies, at least) richer. And now we're complaining that Pacific Island nations are being lured by economic deals with China that the USA should have been able to trump easily.

[capcom]

https://au.yahoo.com/news/china-wants-10...39983.html
China just continuing its push into the Pacific while Joe and Albo buddy up in Japan.

Climate change is far more important EB  :   

[Mav]

No, we want to remain in control of the world at least until it becomes uninhabitable.

[ElwoodBlues1]

China playing games with one of their fighter jets putting one of our RAAF surveillance planes at risk by discharging debris after cutting our plane off and flying too close in front which could have brought our plane down.
They are clearly spoiling for an incident to trigger something more major and I'd be forgetting about kissing and making up with them like Albo and Penny Wong want to do and taking a more hardline approach
and tooling up our military more.
We are trying to buddy up to Indonesia with a trip planned by Albo and Penny to get them onside, but I wouldnt trust the Indonesians either even though they are no fans of the Chinese.
Get the feeling the USA have abandoned Taiwan and I'm uncomfortable with being able to trust them for full support and we need to look after ourselves more.