Comment on As China prepares to invade Taiwan, a reality check: sitting on the sidelines won’t help Australia
Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Australia’s security, including maritime trade, would be directly threatened.
Maritime trade with whom?
Maritime trade with whom, motherfucker‽
Consent manufacturing machine go brrrrrr
There’s also the insinuation China would interfere with our trade in the region.
Based on what? Nothing.
Oh, unless we do blindly follow the US into another war and cut ourselves off to half our shipping lanes and trade partners.
The media is a joke. Fucking CIA bullshit
BeNotAfraid@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The Malacca Strait is used by most container and vehicle ships coming to Australia from Europe. It’s the main route for shipping from the Indian Ocean trading with Asia. It carries about 80,000 ships a year. Once ships from Australia reach North Asia or pass through the Indonesian archipelago, they enter the busiest shipping lanes in the world. The ships carrying Australia’s bulk commodity exports are a significant presence: it’s estimated they account for 29% of global bulk shipping, however the 8 million containers handled each year at Australia’s ports are less than 1% of the global total. So, absolutely disastrous for Australian trade while leaving the rest of the world largely unaffected.