Så kender vi Kina igen.

Frihandelsaftale Kina/Australien.

China urges Australia to observe its promise of not taking sides on disputes of territorial sovereignty "to avoid damage to the co-operative relations between the two countries".

Det ville jeg nu tage ret afslappet, hvis jeg var australier.

Dels forsvinder råstofsalget ganske af sig selv, dels vil en virkeliggørelse af truslerne om boykot af Australske fødevarer bare drive Kina tættere på USA, hvilket Kina ikke vil. Vi kan se, at prisen på oksekød stiger - til tider panisk af 2 grunde:

• Prisen på foder stiger - læg mærke til soyabønner.
  
• Prisen på mælk og mælkeprodukter stiger, hvorfor man ikke slagter køerne.
  

Her er Australien en rimelig leverandør og pristrykker af oksekød, hvor - så vidt jeg ved - ikke så lidt kommer fra løsdrift, hvorfor hverken mælkepriser eller foderudgifter er nogen speciel faktor i prisudviklingen.
Lammekød nogenlunde det samme.

Det dybere problem er, at det tager 3 år at lave en bøf. Når der så er mælkemangel - mere. I løsdrift så kan man bare lade dem vokse til priserne bliver bedre - hvis der er græs og vand nok.

Canberra Times

"The Americans sometimes want to put pressure on us so they ask their friends to put pressure on us. When they do, you should sit down and think about it." The US, the Chinese speaker said, frequently changed its approach to Asia policy, and "Australians need to realise the Americans change what they say without thinking about other people's interests."
In other words, if it were merely an American lapdog, Australia could end up alienating China only to be abandoned by its US master.

The third said the conception of America as the strategic ally and China as the primary economic partner was wrong-headed; China and the US were both important to regional security. If Australia wanted a strategic partnership with China, it had to include both security and economic aspects.

The fifth sought to relegate Australia's US alliance to history. It was "a product of the Cold War," he said. And although China would not normally offer its view on Australia's alliances, it now was affecting China's "core interests, its sovereignty and its territorial interests".

This is a tough critique, claiming that Australia's US alliance infringes on China's sovereignty.

And the responses? The Australians were on the defensive. Some firmly defended the US alliance. Some assured that Australia acted in its own interests, not America's. One challenged the Chinese to explain what they were doing to ease the tensions. Some tried to change the subject.

På australsk: "Piss off!"

Det fantastiske er, at Kina så totalt ude af føling med sårbarheden af deres situation. Utrolig primitiv reaktion.

Det må de selv om, det er dem, der får tæsk! Sådan en Task Force, den slår man sig på.

Biden talte onsdag i Folkets Store Hal i Beijing, hvor han blandt andet roste præsident Xi Jinping for at være åbenhjertig og ærlig.

Han har i forbavsende grad mindet om en små spruthysteriske.

Cowpen er en Ticonderoga-klasse krydser.

Hmmm..... dem er der 22 af.
Hangarskibe er der 10 af. 2 stk. pr. hangarskib synes i overkanten.

Det væsentlige er nok, at det ikke var Antietam eller Shiloh - de har nemlig hjemhavn i Yokosuka, som Washington; men Nimitz var i Pearl Harbor den 5/12-13 ...........hmmmm.