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While we earn substantially from Chinese students, for instance, most of them don't become ambassadors of goodwill on their return. Their level of engagement with the Australian host culture is often minimal.
Tourism also tends to involve limited meaningful contact, though it can lead to people pursuing deeper ties longer term.
But Ding Dou, a Beijing University professor, who described Australia and China as "economic friends, strategically distant", said he had "a strong sense that China does not have too much interest in Australia now".
Originally posted by DarthMuerte
Interesting. I thought China was buying all of your mines and sending immigrants by the boatload. Are you sure that you are not inline to become a prefecture?
To the Honourable The Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives This petition of concerned citizens draws to the attention of the House: The Australian government is negotiating a Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement (TPPA) with the US, New Zealand, Chile, Peru, Brunei, Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam. But the agenda is being set by giant US corporations. They see many Australian health, social, cultural and environmental policies are barriers to trade which should be removed. They want to use the negotiations to undermine the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme and charge higher prices for medicines, to give special rights for corporations to sue governments, to remove labelling of genetically modified food, to undermine local jobs and fair employment conditions for government contracts, and to weaken policies for Australian content in film, television and digital media. They also oppose including enforceable labour rights and environmental protections in the agreement. We therefore ask the House not to support any agreement which undermines any of the above listed policies, to support the inclusion of enforceable labour rights and environmental protections in the agreement, and to support publication of the text of the agreement for public and parliamentary debate before it is ratified.
Originally posted by sonnny1
reply to post by Germanicus
Wrong.
While we earn substantially from Chinese students, for instance, most of them don't become ambassadors of goodwill on their return. Their level of engagement with the Australian host culture is often minimal.
Tourism also tends to involve limited meaningful contact, though it can lead to people pursuing deeper ties longer term.
But Ding Dou, a Beijing University professor, who described Australia and China as "economic friends, strategically distant", said he had "a strong sense that China does not have too much interest in Australia now".
China"has a daydream that Australia will walk away from the US and build a close relationship with China". But mostly it is awake to the remoteness of that prospect. "If the China-US relationship becomes fractious, the China-Australia relationship gets worse."
After 40 years the China-Australia relationship is underachieving
Sorry,you're wrong.
India showed a negative growth of -9.1% during March 2011–2012, according to the latest Knight Frank Prime Global Cities Index,
China’s exports and imports both grew considerably more slowly than expected last month, the Chinese government announced on Thursday, in one of the clearest signals yet of lingering and possibly worsening weakness in the world’s second biggest economy.
Originally posted by Germanicus
the United states is doomed. Its too late now.
Originally posted by seeker1963
reply to post by Germanicus
Yep! Blame the Imperialist United States for your countries problems right?? How about blaming those citizens in your own country for allowing you government to allow this to happen? (To the rest of you from Australia, I am not directing this to you, but Germanicus has a history of blaming Americans for allowing our government to get away with doing what they do, so I am taking this opportunity to ask him why he, being an Australian, is blaming Americans for HIS government selling him out!)
Were you not the one the other day that said it was the people of America that allowed our government to do what it is doing throughout the world???? That we as Americans were responsible because we elected them???? Wait a minute! Did we elect your officials into office???
Well instead of blaming America for your problems, let me ask you why you aren't blaming your government in Australia for allowing it to happen????? Your a hypocrit!!!!! Plain and simple! You want to call out Americans for allowing our government to do things, but when YOUR government does things you don't like, why don't I see you blaming yourself or other Australians???????
Oh, never mind, I understand! It is much easier to blame others than to look at yourself in the mirror????
Oh, BTW! Don't send me a U2U threatening me pal! I would much rather meet you face to face!
Originally posted by seeker1963
reply to post by Germanicus
Yep! Blame the Imperialist United States for your countries problems right?? How about blaming those citizens in your own country for allowing you government to allow this to happen? (To the rest of you from Australia, I am not directing this to you, but Germanicus has a history of blaming Americans for allowing our government to get away with doing what they do, so I am taking this opportunity to ask him why he, being an Australian, is blaming Americans for HIS government selling him out!)
Were you not the one the other day that said it was the people of America that allowed our government to do what it is doing throughout the world???? That we as Americans were responsible because we elected them???? Wait a minute! Did we elect your officials into office???
Well instead of blaming America for your problems, let me ask you why you aren't blaming your government in Australia for allowing it to happen????? Your a hypocrit!!!!! Plain and simple! You want to call out Americans for allowing our government to do things, but when YOUR government does things you don't like, why don't I see you blaming yourself or other Australians???????
Oh, never mind, I understand! It is much easier to blame others than to look at yourself in the mirror????
Oh, BTW! Don't send me a U2U threatening me pal! I would much rather meet you face to face!