Ex- PM Malcolm Turnbull urges Canberra not to ‘buckle under pressure’ from Beijing:
Australia should not “buckle under pressure” from an onslaught of trade actions from Beijing and change its stance on controversial bilateral issues with China, according to former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull.
The comments* are many and pretty much 100% anti-Turnbull, anti Australia, along the lines of “Australia is US poodle”, “Australia is pathetic, biting the hand that feeds it” and so on.... mostly simplistic and ill-informed, but there you have the essence of modern global relations.
*Many of the commenters being members of the “Wumao” brigade, I’m sure.
RELATED: Australia’s Power Index Ranking. For those in the comments disparaging Australia’s place in the region and the world. We are a solid middle ranking power and strong in the region. Australia is up there, on that index, just shy of Japan and South Korea, ahead of most in ASEAN. It’s on par with Israel, and no one messes with the “little Satan”. That site also has a fun-to-play imaginary coalition builder. It’s sobering that China basically doesn’t need any coalition, to be stronger than any one we could build, without the US, which heads the index, ahead of China and Russia.
