"The week Australia stood up to China and global giants (Facebook, Apple, Amazon)"
A startling thing to watch, (just like with the fall of the Berlin wall, 9/11 and then 2008) --how the world's geopolitical map is reconfiguring (or, some might argue, it's merely accelerating previous trends)
----So far you read a lot of anger against China from most Western press. But for a somehow softer stance from Italy (who just saw the EU turn their back on them) and Serbia (China and Russia being among the few countries that opposed Western support of pro-Albanian separatists).
I thought that this article was good -- it outlines one country's new strategy for this Brave New World.
How does Australia navigate the geo-strategic environment of the post-coronavirus world?
The corona crisis is accelerating history.
---Beijing is now using covid19 crisis as an opportunity to accelerate its plans for reshaping the world.
It's the same attitude the world has seen from the US tech titans, most prominently Google and Facebook, but also including Apple and Amazon. The four have pioneered "a new kind of corporate extremism" that no other US company could have got away with.
--- Australia this week calmly made four China-related moves that defied Beijing. Strikingly, in some of the key initiatives, Australia led the world.
Starting with the move for an independent review mechanism to examine the development of this pandemic and the crisis that is occurring internationally." Trump has blamed China for the pandemic, but the idea of an independent inquiry was Australia's own initiative.
Then Australia had decided to impose a mandatory code of conduct on these corporations because efforts to negotiate a voluntary code were going nowhere.
- This week's decisions to defy the authoritarian superpower, China, and America's biggest companies, represent a remarkable moment in Australia's national self-assertion. We see a new boldness and independence from a country that has long been considered an economic dependency of China's and a "deputy sheriff" of America's.
Third was the South China Sea.
--Under cover of COVID, Beijing is pressing its claims against its neighbours' territories harder and faster. In the face of this, Australia had sent a frigate to join three US Navy ships in exercises near an area where Malaysian, Vietnamese and Chinese claims clash.
-- Australia "should prepare for the crisis after the crisis". The Morrison government knows full well that another made-in-China crisis is on its way.
Fourth: Australia proposeat the G-20 this week an independent scientific inquiry into wet markets for wild animals. These have generated six pandemics in recent decades. It was time to do something about it instead of just waiting for the seventh.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...-china-and-global-giants-20200424-p54n3c.html
A startling thing to watch, (just like with the fall of the Berlin wall, 9/11 and then 2008) --how the world's geopolitical map is reconfiguring (or, some might argue, it's merely accelerating previous trends)
----So far you read a lot of anger against China from most Western press. But for a somehow softer stance from Italy (who just saw the EU turn their back on them) and Serbia (China and Russia being among the few countries that opposed Western support of pro-Albanian separatists).
I thought that this article was good -- it outlines one country's new strategy for this Brave New World.
How does Australia navigate the geo-strategic environment of the post-coronavirus world?
The corona crisis is accelerating history.
---Beijing is now using covid19 crisis as an opportunity to accelerate its plans for reshaping the world.
It's the same attitude the world has seen from the US tech titans, most prominently Google and Facebook, but also including Apple and Amazon. The four have pioneered "a new kind of corporate extremism" that no other US company could have got away with.
--- Australia this week calmly made four China-related moves that defied Beijing. Strikingly, in some of the key initiatives, Australia led the world.
Starting with the move for an independent review mechanism to examine the development of this pandemic and the crisis that is occurring internationally." Trump has blamed China for the pandemic, but the idea of an independent inquiry was Australia's own initiative.
Then Australia had decided to impose a mandatory code of conduct on these corporations because efforts to negotiate a voluntary code were going nowhere.
- This week's decisions to defy the authoritarian superpower, China, and America's biggest companies, represent a remarkable moment in Australia's national self-assertion. We see a new boldness and independence from a country that has long been considered an economic dependency of China's and a "deputy sheriff" of America's.
Third was the South China Sea.
--Under cover of COVID, Beijing is pressing its claims against its neighbours' territories harder and faster. In the face of this, Australia had sent a frigate to join three US Navy ships in exercises near an area where Malaysian, Vietnamese and Chinese claims clash.
-- Australia "should prepare for the crisis after the crisis". The Morrison government knows full well that another made-in-China crisis is on its way.
Fourth: Australia proposeat the G-20 this week an independent scientific inquiry into wet markets for wild animals. These have generated six pandemics in recent decades. It was time to do something about it instead of just waiting for the seventh.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...-china-and-global-giants-20200424-p54n3c.html
