I have posted this on another thread :
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1533892/posts?page=31
And let me post it here again for your benefit:
"You over estimate Australia's importance as an ally against China and Islam.
I remember the Australian Cricket team was just too scared to even land in Sri Lanka during the cricket world cup due to terrorist threat, when in fact there was nothing really to fear.
Australia may be great allies but they are still limited by their size and power projection. On the Indian Ocean, South China Sea and the Pacific ocean they have none. In their own region they are swamped (and threatened) by a much larger and stronger Indonesia. Let alone India by far, Australia by itself (without American help) is nowhere near equalling Malayasia's economic and military might or the military might of Vietnam. Australia never ever fought a war on its own let alone having the capacity to win wars by itself. It rarely ever had to defend its own borders. It has no experiance whatsoever in fighting Islamic terrorism or Chinese Communism. India has fought both. India's knowledge, experiance, intelligence, military might and expertise against Islam and China may prove to be vital for the US. Australia may provide a strategic base and a launch pad for the US navy or airforce in the region but on its own it may hardly be in a posaition to provide anything beyond a token help.
And most importantly Australia is too far away and too much geostrategically disconnected from the Cental Asian politics to have a stake in it. It may have growing concern over the Chinese economic and military dominance in its own backyard i.e the South East Asian region, but Australia may prefer to conciliate with China which may be economically and politically more beneficial for both rather than directly go down the confrontationist path."
And you always make me laugh whenever you even so much as mention Singapore (the country where I was born). Its a ludicrous idea to even think of (a predominantly Chinese) Singapore as an ally against China.
"And you always make me laugh whenever you even so much as mention Singapore (the country where I was born). Its a ludicrous idea to even think of (a predominantly Chinese) Singapore as an ally against China."
Now I understand all your animosities toward Chinese in general. Can't stand your own country, eh?
So u're saying a predominantly Chinese cultural wise Taiwan is not against China?