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Originally Posted by Targan
It would put my country in a truly awful position too - we'd have to choose between losing our economic prosperity (China's demand for raw materials is the only thing sparing Australia from the global economic downturn that's affecting every other western economy) or turning our backs on the strongest and closest military ally we've ever had.
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That's actually a false choice. In any Sino-American war there would be an economic blockade of China. If Australia tried to sit it out as a 'neutral', and continue to supply war-critical materials to China, Australia would be subjected to the effects of the blockade. In effect, Australia would become at war with the US. That's not a situation that I think anyone down under would choose.
Plus, after a crashed global economy, Australia couldn't expect to escape economically unscathed even if she somehow miraculously avoided anything bad happening to her from choosing the wrong (Chinese) side.
Any Sino-American war would be very bad for the whole world, and especially catastrophic for all Pacific Rim nations.