Off the coast of China…

“These deployments demonstrate Australia’s commitment to a global rules-based order as part of an international pressure campaign on North Korea to denuclearise.”

  • Muad'Dibber@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    Rules-based-order is such a patronizing and paternalistic phrase for the US to come up with. The age of colonizer countries making rules is over.

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    1 year ago

    Even if there wasn’t a single Chinese navy ship in the region, our newspapers would all find some reason to mention how evilbad China is when talking about this and how the time the first officer on the ship stubbed his toe it was because of evil China toe stubbing rays.