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byChunderDownunder ( 709234 ) writes:
If you really want piss the US off, stop with the currency manipulation. Trump has already started threatening BRICS if they use their own currency(ies) within their own clique, what if you called his bluff?
Price everything in Yuan or euros instead of $US and my ordering of stuff from your country won't be more expensive when the USD to AUD exchange rate changes.
(Sure, I'm an Aussie who is sick of the Canberra sycophancy but after Scott Morrison cluelessly trashed our relationship with China when Mr Trump w
byBeaverCleaver ( 673164 ) writes:
(Sure, I'm an Aussie who is sick of the Canberra sycophancy but after Scott Morrison cluelessly trashed our relationship with China when Mr Trump was last in office, we owe America no favours.)
Thanks to AUKUS, Australia owes the USA $368 billion dollars.
Imagine if that money were spent domestically on schools or hospitals or railways or affordable housing.
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byMacMann ( 7518492 ) writes:
National defense is expensive. Another way to put it was stated by someone smarter than I and someone I cannot recall for proper attribution. It goes something like this....
If you believe winning a war is expensive then imagine the cost of losing a war.
Australia needs submarines with sufficient range to defend its trading routes. These routes extend beyond the range of their current diesel-electric submarines. Without submarines with sufficient range an adversary nation could blockade Australia quite ef
byBeaverCleaver ( 673164 ) writes:
China is Australia's biggest customer. Do countries usually go to war with their biggest customer?
And if there ever *was* an overt war, Australia, population 25M, has zero chance against the Peoples Liberation Army of China, population 1.4 BILLION. A handful of second-hand subs in such a content is a rounding error, even assuming they are ever actually delivered. Before delivery takes place, Australia is first generously financing the rebuilding of US and UK shipyards.
bycmseagle ( 1195671 ) writes:
(Sure, I'm an Aussie who is sick of the Canberra sycophancy but after Scott Morrison cluelessly trashed our relationship with China when Mr Trump was last in office, we owe America no favours.)
Thanks to AUKUS, Australia owes the USA $368 billion dollars.
Imagine if that money were spent domestically on schools or hospitals or railways or affordable housing.
Australia doesn't "owe the USA" the full cost of AUKUS. The figure you cite includes the cost of building out the Australian supply chains and shipbuilding capacity to build the subs (in Adelaide), and then the funding for the Australian navy to operate them through the 2050s. I'll let the Australians decide if that's the most useful form of domestic investment, but they're definitely not writing a check for a quarter $TRN and sending it to the US Treasury.
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