China watch.

Awesome. Cheap cherries will be in our supermarket soon.

Australia needs to ‘try harder’ on trade front amid tensions with China: expert.

www.news.com.au/world/asia/australia-needs-to-try-harder-on-trade-front-amid-tensions-with-china-expert/news-story/c2fa39d42305e5fd10fcfa41fc8c0964

China recruits ‘hundreds’ of Australian academics and scientists to suspicious program.

www.news.com.au/finance/work/china-recruits-hundreds-of-australian-academics-and-scientists-to-suspicious-program/news-story/1187c10d6573570301b416d5fdeff03f

At some point there will be an accident during this gamesmanship ... and then half the planet (in population terms) will find itself killing each other.

All thanks to one or more Authoritarians wanting to demonstrate they have the larger penis..

I've said this for ages. A war won't be started intentionally. I mean, the build up is and the inevitable stoush will have been planned by those with an interest. But the actual physical hostilities will probably be started by someone sneezing, or mistaking a smoke plume from a camp fire for something more.

That's what happens when people are on edge for months at a time.

Australia is screwed lol
For food we would be alright, but most other things that require manufacturing we are done for. Just look at the empty shelves of Kmart during the height of covid because they couldn't get their stock delivered or unloaded due to wharfie union slowdowns.

Good. I think it's the right stance to take. If you want to conduct fair diplomacy you don't make demands to even SPEAK to the other party. That's not diplomacy, that'd dictatorship. Naw buddy. Not today.

I agree.
How much of what we import from China is really necessary? If necessary, is it impossible to be gotten elsewhere? 
I'm sure there are examples, but I can't think of anything in that category.

Examples of what we don't need from them are far easier to come by.
Most of what we import is garbage. New mobile phone/tv/whatever, whilst the old one is still working. New furniture whilst the perfectly good old stuff is dumped on the street. Generic plastic crap toys to distract our kids indoors rather than playing with them ourselves. The full list of this crap would be mammoth.

Mate take a look at South Africa and Rhodesia back in the 60's, 70's and 80's when they were getting smashed with international sanctions! Their homeland industries boomed and quite simply they became more self-sufficient, smarter, less vulnerable and economically more resilient! There is so much fat built into this country we won't be going broke anytime soon except maybe for all the faarktard multinationals that chew us up and spit us out when it suits them! The only thing we really need to worry about are our bottom feeder politicians trying to sell us out via the backdoor!  Despite Gubberment fifth columnist intervention we will do pretty well after the painful transitionary period. Garage sales, barter groups, local markets will boom and shit if not it will all be tax free money the Politifilth never see!  The downsizing of the Public Service will be massive and only "real" jobs with real purpose and real value as in like the real ones that real people work in will remain................AWESOME!