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.
Because in 1975 CIA and MI6 couped Australia for attempting an independent foreign policy
Sovereignty ended for Oz that day
Not just a right-wing government, but a government that is trapped between it’s white nationalist voter base and it’s dying coal export industry.
The Australians are dealing with many of the same ecological and economic pressures present in the US right now. And their reaction is much the same. Blood and Soil Nationalism is becoming a proxy for The American/Australian Dream of middle class first world decadency.
America wants it to.
CIA controls Australia, partly because that baby is right underneath central asia
So we’re doing the sunk cost fallacy but for a whole nation? All this sunlight must be wrecking our racist brains.
We denounced the British because they wouldn’t let us be racist enough. (not even joking). Although Australia was one of the first western countries to establish a relationship with China, from Wikipedia:
As opposition leader, Gough Whitlam visited China in 1971 (before Henry Kissinger’s historic visit on behalf of the United States), and in December 1972, after Whitlam’s victory in that year’s federal election, Australia established diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China, and Australia ceased to recognise the Republic of China government of Chiang Kai-shek in Taiwan. Although Whitlam’s decision was informed by warming relations between China and the West generally, especially the United States,
Australian diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic predated that of the United States by seven years.
We denounced the British because they wouldn’t let us be racist enough.
Source? Sounds interesting.
It was called The White Australia Policy, pretty bad blight on Australian history. It was like the first thing we went against the British on… don’t have a specific source on it atm but here’s wiki:
The British government in London was not pleased with legislation that discriminated against certain subjects of its Empire, but decided not to disallow the laws that were passed.
Unfortunately the early labour movement was quite involved in this :( because of cheap foreign labour, although without capitalism there wouldn’t beside strong material causes of racism to begin with.
