No, baiting a nuclear-armed power into a shooting war is insane. Like it or, the US has pursued a policy of "strategic ambiguity" for half a century. We do not have a defense treaty with Taiwan like we have with Japan or the NATO countries. Which puts it in the same basket as Ukraine. I do not condone wars of aggression, of course, but trying to stop China (or Russia) from invading one of their neighbors would lead to a nuclear exchange. How can anyone seriously contemplate that?
Agreed. In addition to Cassandra's points, the entire economy of Western Australia would collapse and Australia would go into recession if we don't supply them with their coal and iron ore.
We are killing the pig on coal with China at the moment after they tried to cancel our coal exports only to drive up the price through the roof and we sold it elsewhere. Now they are paying triple per tonne for it.
Gooses.
Poll
