Want to know what life under Chinese Communist rule would be like? Take a look at the differences between Halloween in Sydney and Shanghai.
To the untrained eye, last week’s American high holiday would have looked roughly identical in both Sydney and Shanghai.
Forget hypotheticals about wars in Taiwan, there’s really only one threshold question: does it matter if the Chinese Communist Party runs the world?It might feel equally preposterous and scary, but given world domination is the express intention ofit’s absolutely worth contemplating. Unlike a US-China conflict, globalisation with Chinese characteristics cannot be avoided.
But having lived through Chinese bullying, Australians needn’t imagine what “trouble making” looks like.Thankfully, Australia bravely held firm against Xi’s diplomatic and economic tantrum. But let’s not kid ourselves. Australia could defend its sovereignty because China wasn’t the world’s preeminent economic and military superpower. Not yet, anyway.
At some point during accommodation, you stop being sovereign. And if you’re wondering how Xi would treat Australians without any constraints, look at how he handles his own people.Some analysts almost gleefully point to a coming “multipolar” world as inherently good. While driven by frustrations with far-from-perfect US leadership, this idea of big dogs having their own neighbourhoods to patrol should worry Australia.
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