China watch.

I still have my dads sidchrome socket set from the 60's and broke a socket, came with a lifetime guarantee and went to repco and got a brand new socket under the lifetime warranty, was made in Taiwan though.
Have a Russian made 12 g shotgun and its pretty well made, heavy though. Aussie made Lithgow 22 from 1950's, well made as well.
Buy your solar panels now as they are all assembled in China, cells probably were made somewhere else, but still with all the strife going on, buy NOW. Inverters, most made in China, get yours NOW. Go off grid ASAP.
Buy your short wave radio now as they are made in China as well, unless you make your own as some of us do. Collect dead electronics stuff from the tip and clean up days, its parts will be handy when we cant get any spares.

Tarrifs on imported Chinese goods is an Own goal.

If you want the price of everything we import from China to rise by 300% overnight ... our economy would have a heart attack.  We import a lot more than cheap consumer products from them.  Our Agriculture is VERY dependent on chemicals and synthetic fertilisers from China.  So if ya want all ya tucker to cost twice as much 6 months from now ... happy days.  A lot of stuff for the construction industry also comes from China too.  And don't think wages will rise to cover the cost ... if they do ... we see some crazy ass inflation.  ie Bye-bye savings if you have them.  Hello more Debt to pay for more expensive housing and such.

The one big, foolproof, economic lever we have is iron ore.  They HAVE to get a large proportion of it from us.  They literally cannot re-jig their supplies to replace us with imports from other countries. AND they have to keep their blast furnaces operating non-stop or risk super-expensive shut-downs and re-commisions.   SO ... our Gov just has to raise the bejesus out of the royalties paid by mining companies for each ton of ore they mine.  Those companies pass that cost on to Chinese buyers.  Those Chinese buyers effectively become taxpayers to the Oz Govt.

If we slap tarrifs on their stuff being sold here ... we become tax payers for the CCP.  And I don't like that idea.

China on the brink of military crisis with Taiwan, strategist warns.

www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/military/china-on-the-brink-of-military-crisis-with-taiwan-strategist-warns/news-story/f537ba3a1ee6fa38c03988160ff6df18

Hats off! I'd invest in that & lithium & rare earths and fcuk china. Incidentally FCUK are my favourite brand of T-shirts. That's a sufficient degree of ambiguity to go forward with this post.

Beijing draws 'red line' on Taiwan, Hong Kong and Uighurs, orders Biden to strictly abide by it


www.wnd.com/2021/02/beijing-draws-red-line-taiwan-hong-kong-uighurs-orders-biden-strictly-abide/

Meanwhile CGTN is on free to air television in Australia. It's in mandarin with no subtitles, so as usual it's an effort at 'reminding' expat chinese that they still need to toe the line with beijing, whilst not letting anyone else know what is being said.

It's on SBS which means that your taxes are paying to broadcast CCP propaganda.

Fei, on the news this morning they said that the military coup in Burma was being described in China as a 'cabinet reshuffle'. Is this accurate?

It's an interesting one. Burma is practically the only bordering nation that the CCP hasn't manufactured a territorial dispute with. The Burmese government doesn't control the border provinces anyway. Maybe the CCP is happy with the smuggling that goes on there. Tariff free exports are always viewed well.

A year after it happened in a propaganda obsessed dictatorship that is intent on covering this up. As if there is going to be any usable evidence left of whatever the actual origin was. The way they threw a tantrum at Morisson for wanting an inquiry is a pretty good indicator that the outbreak cause would cast the CCP in a bad light. Can't have them losing face now, can we.