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Why the fuck is Australia so desperate to pick a fight with China?(www.google.com)

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Seriously, our two big-boy best friends have always been China and the US. Now tensions are really coming to a head we’re going to side with the failed state of the US? I don’t understand anything about foreign policy.

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Because in 1975 CIA and MI6 couped Australia for attempting an independent foreign policy

Sovereignty ended for Oz that day

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/23/gough-whitlam-1975-coup-ended-australian-independence

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