When the coronavirus crisis is over, China will be forced to embrace a less ambitious future.
Australia's Globalization Expert
Salvatore Babones Posts
he one bombshell in Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s announcement of billions in new spending really was a bomb: Australia will acquire American AGM-158C Long Range Anti-Ship Missiles (LRASMs).
The party was good while it lasted. But if the government makes good on its promises — and all indications are that, with minor tweaks, it will — then the party is over.
Had the NSC been less cowed by medical advice and more aggressive in policing the border, Australia might have dodged the coronavirus bullet. That we came so close is entirely down to ignoring the medicos, not following their advice.
It may not be noble and it may not be fair, but American individualism has kept the borders (if not the peace) for three-quarters of a century.
The more standards-setting organizations like the ITU are captured by China, the more the rest of the world will simply ignore their rules.
If only China’s leaders could be persuaded that their trajectory is not promising, even for themselves, the world would be a much safer place.
It has become a trope of both Western and Chinese writing about China’s economic resurgence to talk about China resuming its “rightful place” at the center of the global economy.