Anthony Albanese has signalled Australia is unlikely to support Taiwan’s entry into one of the biggest free-trading blocs just days after meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping.
A bipartisan committee called in February for Australia to back Taiwan’s request to join the 11-nation Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for trans-Pacific Partnership.
But the Prime Minister suggested at the APEC Summit in Thailand that Taiwan did not qualify for entry to the massive trading bloc…
“And of course the CPTPP is a relationship between nation states that are recognised. Taiwan is represented here [at APEC] … as an economy. And there is bipartisan support for the One China policy. We support the status quo on Taiwan.
“We don’t want to see any unilateral action, which alters that status quo.”
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Well, that didn’t take long. Albo is Xi’s bitch. Belt and Road here we come.
Gee, didn’t take long for Xi to get payback for support in the recent election, I wonder what he is doing to support the hunchback
Imagine how little a tiny, insignificant country like Australia is worth to our allies? A lot less than $20 billion I would think.
If Xi gets bolshie, don’t expect the US to spill blood for us, unless there is a really significant strategic reason for them to step in.
Perplexed
Pine Gap.
@jupes
I’d reckon we’ve already been Belted and we’ve been pretty much rail Roaded but more to come.
and a couple of other reasons.
Doesn’t saying Taiwan isn’t a real nation make Albo a Putinist?
ROFL
It’s kind of silly … Taiwan is gonna trade anyhow … three quarters of the computer equipment in Australia is made in Taiwan right now.
This is not about trade, it’s about who gets to take a cut of the trade … and remember: Ya Need Protection, never know what might happen!
Exactly Tel.
Nice little advanced computer chip making facility you’ve got there.
Be a shame if something happened to it…
There has never, to my knowledge, been a suggestion that Taiwanese products are not available to Emperor CCP.
Logic? Just recently CL has questioned persistently the merit of supporting Ukraine in its defence of Russian invasion. Yet here it seems Taiwan’s sovereignty demands urgent promotion, though as yet no invasion evident. Do we give up when the shooting starts CL?
Yes logic, Yank. Ukraine is a corrupt shithole that doesn’t produce anything we need and Taiwan is a modern, democratic, first world nation on whom we are dependent for computer technology.
@yank
Hi Kristina Marie Kerscher Keneally
Boambee John and NFA,
Pine Gap et al have been important for awhile but I would think they have redundancies or could build such facilities elsewhere. Maybe Guam or Diego Garcia?
If it comes to the crunch, Pine Gap is intercepting signals and North West Cape is probably just giving the final ‘unload’ orders to the Boomers. In which case we are really inconsequential.
PS. I don’t claim to be an authority on those bases. I do remember a history lecturer I had once saying NW Cape was a sub communications base and was set up to relay the launch orders.
I’m still not sure the Yanks would spill blood for them.
It is an interesting game of what if though.
Exmouth is ‘interesting’ but…
Strange that you prioritise questioning CL, Yank, rather than the prime minister of Australia who has the same conundrum that you assert, in reverse yet the actual power to do something about it.
Albo is a craven coward.
That’s unfair to craven’s.
You are a tiny bit out of date … although presumably that demonstrates your life is more entertaining that my own.
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2022/10/06/2003786523
That’s nothing to do with Australia … it’s a Biden regime policy and they started it a month ago.
It will delay the Chinese chip industry for a few years but not much longer than that.
LOL Tel
Not actually, just more a reflection of the number of CCP ‘admirers’ that the Taiwanese have outed and prosecuted over the years let alone the purported number of mainland ‘entrepreneurs’ that base themselves in Taiwan.
NFA says:
18 November, 2022 at 8:30 pm
Exmouth is ‘interesting’ but…
I did a quick search. We might be talking about the same thing. The Harold E. Holt Base.
I used to work with an IT contractor who said that he used to do contracting for the military. He reckons we don’t know the half of what things are in the middle of Oz.
Could have just been BS but you never know.
Another cowardly Prime Minister; this one with a whine in his voice.
It’s probable Taiwan is not surprised at all by the Albanese statement.
Many would take in the evening news and feel good that Australia is spending on the Ukraine mess. Others ask – are we so wealthy?
The alternative was that Albanese do a Pelosi.
Petros: you clearly don’t know much about Ukraine or Taiwan. It’s also clear that you really don’t want to defend any principle.
Sure, sure.
Hi Kristina Marie Kerscher Keneally