Interesting perception. I’m sure it would surprise most Australians, who perceive themsleves as a very small country on the edge of Asia dominated by China, Japan, and India.
But it seams the leadership thinks different. Maybe the UK media has played up Australian involvement more then needed because it doesnt want the UK public to percieve that the UK is the only backer of wrong US policies
Yes, but still based on pragmatic common and mutual self interest. China and Japan are important trade partners, but we have very little, if anything, else in common with them. Europe..do they even know that the Asia Pacific exits, or know anything about it apart from a few wildly inaccurate sterotypes? And if they did, would they ever be willing to act in its support (remember Bosnia and Kosovo)? South America???
Not sure about Europe but single european countries would act.
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