Russell Coker wrote:
I never said that we could only associate with English speaking countries. Merely that it's a lot easier for the majority of Australians who only speak English.
Try reading articles about Spanish politics through Google Translate some time. I've tried it and it's difficult, unpleasant, and gives the impression of being inaccurate.
Well I can read Spanish (badly), and I block google, but I know what you mean. Did you have trouble following, say, the invasion of Afhganistan because you didn't speak Dari *or* Farsi? You don't HAVE TO rely on google when there are still multilingual human beings. Of course they have their own agenda, but then so does Google.
So I was like: "hang on, yes, we interact with the US, but not ONLY them. China drives our economic policies and Indonesia drives our military policies".
Name the last 3 occasions that we went to war to support Indonesia.
To *support* them? Oh, I was thinking of... something else.
The TPP was not foisted upon us by China. While the US has stopped pushing it, that's where it appears to have originated.
Erm, I don't think so. The TPP began as an expansion of the TPSEP signed by Brunei, Chile, New Zealand and Singapore in 2005. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership