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Insider REVEALS: Australia Prepares War With China To Rescue US Hegemony | Prof. Hugh White

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What’s Down-Under up to in Geopolitics? Will you be safe there from the looming Third World War there? Well, not exactly. Turns out, Canberra has no better idea than to offer itself on a silver platter as a loyal servant to US military ambitions. Is Australia risking everything for the sake of US empire? Today I'm talking to Dr. Hugh White, an emeritus Professor of Strategic Studies at Australian National University. Professor White has researched and published for decades on Australia’s strategic and defence policy, Asia-Pacific security issues, and global strategic affairs. Among other positions, he has served as an intelligence analyst with the Office of National Assessments, and as a senior official in the Department of Defence. Read more of Professor White's analysis at the Quarterly Essays : https://www.quarterlyessay.com.au/ess...
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Picking a fight with your largest trading partner and source of income, just to preserve another country's hegemony, is the height of idiocy.
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As an Australian veteran, it's LUDICROUS to think we have an issue with China. Sydney has a proud Chinatown from colonial days. We've had excellent trade with China. We have been effectively disarmed and underfunded for decades. We have a bare minimum defence force... not an offensive force. If Ukraine is the norm, Australians can expect to be thrown into a meat grinder. The wealth in superannuation and land ownership will then be appropriated and laws shaped for global agendas.
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Describing the US as a benign hegemon who use Armed Force OCCASIONALLY is so far from reality that we have to question the credibility and knowledge of this Dr. White. If he is one of the "best" analysts in Australia, and worked for the Australian DoD, no wonder then Australia is in dire straits.
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When the bully realizes his power is diminishing, he becomes terrified of suffering the same treatment
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I applaud you for not losing your posture Pascal. The historical revisionism was overwhelming at times.
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“It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal.” ― Henry Kissinger
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That the US is a benign power is one of the most ignorant things I have heard. During the Cold War alone, the US carried out 70 regime changes around the world, often with disastrous consequences for the targeted states. Essentially, they opposed left-wing popular forces from below, and replaced them with right-wing autocratic regimes. This is also about the implementation of neoliberalism. For the US, even its own citizens are an enemy, and you see the differences increasing, and poverty increasing as a result of neoliberalism. Look at the US today, supposedly the world's most prosperous country, yet it tops so many negative statistics when it comes to its own citizens and infrastructure.
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Hugh White does not speak for all Australians. China is not a threat. US is a threat to regional peace.
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Pascal's skeptical raised eyebrow at some of Prof. White's comments spoke volumes. Even I as an American profoundly disagree with Prof. Hugh White that the US global hegemony is largely "benign". There is ample evidence that the American hegemony has been a malignant influence that both covertly and overtly routinely imposes regime change around the world. I also disagree with Prof. White that it is easy to imagine Russia invading its Balkan neighbors. If Russia is not provoked into taking extreme action, Russia has no reason to invade its neighbors. Prof. White's wariness of a rising India and to a lesser extent Indonesia strikes me as paranoia. Prof. White displays a very pro-European colonial mindset that has whitewashed the horrible impact of European/US colonialism, and fears the rise of the "natives" of the region who do not share a transplanted European mindset.
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A country that's physically in Asia A country whose biggest customer is China A country whose trade relationship with China is highly complementary, not competitive A country with so many Chinese students A country with so many Chinese tourists A country with so many brilliant ethnic chinese contributing to the economy A land that's only ever been militarily attacked by the Europeans and Japanese, never China. Yet.....
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To refer American hegemony as benign tells us a lot about Anglo Saxon delusion. India and China have been great Asian powers for thousands of years and have never imposed on military power on neighbours like 'australia'
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Only a while Anglo-Saxon country like Australia would consider America a "benign hegemony" ... Just ask Philippines, Vietnam, Korea, Iraq, Syria, Libya . while it's dangerous to be America's enemy, to be a friend can be lethal, just ask Ukraine.
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The problem of this world is that some Western countries refused to share the world with other races as equal.
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I am the son of a veteran who served in Malaysia, twice in Vietnam and in 1975 retired as a Warrant Officer Class 1. For those who don't know a WO1 is the highest rank obtainable by an enlisted (not an officer) serviceman. In his final years he served in Canberra. As I grew older, he told me many things. He told me how both of those conflicts were instigated by the USA and how we were used. He died with deep regret. He was sickened by how the Australian government bows to the USA government and that they have done us no favours. When he joined the Army, he understood that he would be called upon to kill others to "protect our way of life", and he did so. Over the many years to follow he watched as one Australian government after another eroded all that "our way of life" stood for. For anyone worried about China being a threat, why? Take an open-minded look at their cities, standard of living (affordable food, affordable housing, health care), and their advanced technology (cars, AI, robotics). Compare this with "all the way with the USA", we have unaffordable living, high food prices, unaffordable home prices, we're paying more for health care, and the list goes on. And if we're worried about our democracy, we have a 2-party preferred system, that is not real choice or real change as they are both owned by Big Corps and do their bidding. I'm sorry but this is an old joke that's played on the people, fear. We are a country that's got a wealth of natural resources, and that money is going somewhere and it's not to Australia or its people.
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One wonders where Prof. White has gotten his degree, as he ignores some facts, and has a very skewed, Western, and neocolonial way of assessing Australia's situation To just illustrate this, look at the perpetual, unilateral and unjust [read: illegal] wars and [regime change] military operations the US [and NATO member States] have been waging since WWII, in countries like: 1945–1948: South Korea 1945–1949: China 1946: Iran 1947–1949: Greece 1948: Costa Rica 1948: Italy 1948–1954: Phillippines 1949–1953: Albania 1949: Syria 1950–1953: Burma and China [Korean war] 1952: Egypt 1952: Guatemala 1952–1953: Iran 1954: Guatemala 1956–1957: Syria 1957–1959: Indonesia 1958: Lebanon 1958: Panama 1959–1963: South Vietnam 1959–1962: Cuba 1959: Haiti 1960–1964: Vietnam 1960–1965: Congo-Leopoldville 1960: Laos 1961: Cuba 1961: Dominican Republic 1961–1964: Brazil 1962: Cuba 1963: Ecuador 1963: Iraq 1964: Panama 1965–1967: Indonesia 1965–1975: Vietnam 1966: Ghana 1966–1967: Guatemala 1970: Cambodia 1970–1973: Chile 1971: Bolivia 1971: Laos 1974–1991: Ethiopia 1975–1991: Angola 1975–1999: East Timor 1976: Argentina 1979–1992: Afghanistan 1980: Iran 1980–1989: Poland 1981: Libya 1981–1982: Chad 1981–1990: Nicaragua 1981–1992: El Salvador 1982–1992: Lebanon 1983: Grenada 1983–1989: Honduras 1984: Iran 1986: Libya 1986: Bolivia 1987–1988: Iran 1989–1994: Panama 1989: Libya 1989: Philippenes 1989: Paraguay 1989–1990: Panama 1990: Liberia 1991: Iraq 1991: Haiti 1992–1994: Somalia 1992–1996: Iraq 1994–1995: Haiti 1996–1997: Zaire 1997: Liberia 1998: Sudan 1998: Afghanistan 1998: Iraq 2000: FR Yugoslavia 2001–2021: Afghanistan 2003–present: Iraq 2005: Kyrgyzstan 2006–2007: Palestinian Territories 2005–2009: Syria 2011: Libya 2012–present: Syria 2014–present: Yemen 2014–present: Ukraine 2023–present: Somalia 2023–present: Palestinian Territories 2023–present: Sudan This list is all but benign, even to most, who aren't a professor
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As an Australian, our Government will gladly turn us into Ukraine 2.0
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No, I am not at all worried about China. I'm an Australian.
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Anglos are telling you they arent finished conquering the world
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No. we are not worrying about China threatening Australia, as they won’t as long as we don’t threaten them. We should be seeking to strengthen our ties and work with them to do some of that high technology manufacturing here, using our resources. We can’t rely on America for anything these days, that much is clear!
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Your guest appears to be living in an alternative reality. He cites the US is an example of a benign hegemon, except for Cuba - is he blithely consigning to insignificance the likes of Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and all the countries overthrown via coup and colour revolution? Ignoring its long history of true benignity, he assumes China would wield its power as ruthlessly and piratically as the US does. He comes with a boatload of colonial baggage.
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American hegemony is benign? That's just ludicrous.
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Did he say the USA went out of its way to avoid escalation over Ukraine? It shows how one loses objectivity when they confine themselves to one intellectual circle (or bubble as they say now days). He defiantly needs to get out more to improve his understanding of Australia's geopolitical landscape. Pascal looks like he could blow a fuse any moment.
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Vassal states in declining empires do not do well !!!
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How can Professor White consider US as a benign hegemon in the Western Hemisphere! He mentioned Cuba, but ignored Chile (Pinochet), Colombia, Multiple coups in Central America, etc. Perhaps he should read William Blum.
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This guest does a good job revealing the basic paranoia behind warmongers’ thinking
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Prof White has rather modest standards if he's holding up US behavior in the Western Hemisphere as the standard for benign hegemony. Every country in that hemisphere has been interfered with, subverted and invaded and continues to be subject to this behavior. China has never behaved like that in Asia. You could not ask for a longer record of non-Anglo Saxon behavior. If that isn't enough for Australians the problem lies with them.
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"US is relatively benign", this guy is delusional and ignorant of history.
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The professor is out of his tree. For goodness sake, the strategic position of China has been defensive ever since it built the Great Wall to keep the Mongols (and others) OUT. China’s current defence build up is the direct result of increasing US military (and other) provocations and is an entirely defensive and understandable reaction. One has to ask the question ‘what has China done to warrant even the suggestion of a military confrontation let alone talk of the use of nuclear weapons in such a conflict - WW3 in short?’ The academic claptrap coming from the professor clearly shows that he can’t provide an answer because there is no reason. It’s plain insanity. The Chinese export business cooperation and development- the US conflict, confrontation, coercion and containment. Time for Australia to stand up and assert its sovereignty by embracing a win-win relationship with China and renouncing US hegemonic violence. From a former Australian defence force member and long time (25 year) resident of China
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I'm Australian this Hugh White is very imperialist. Even what he said about Russia-Ukraine shows his ignorance. China doesnt want hegemony like the USA it does not seek nor impose a rules based order system. This guy should educate himself. Shameful. You should interview Dr Warwick Powell from Queensland he's a long time expert on China and BRICS. i couldnt listen to this whole interview, so flawed and misinformed. Thats the problem with Australia and its leaders as well. Ignorance and still imperialist and racist at heart, as its still a colonial remnant. A few ofour previous leaders like Paul Keating and Kevin Rudd were more educated and know Asia Pacific well, without colonial arrogance. USA is a benign hegemony?? joke of the century! Wake up mate! white supremacist in everything he says..
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In short, China is upsetting the hegemony of the Anglo Saxon countries 😂
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Defining the US as the 'most benign hegemon' is quite laughable. At least if we go for the dictionary definition of bening.
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What a load of blithering nonsense.I pity the students that you teach mate.This country is unrecognizable since early nineties.Instead of trading and prospering from vast resources this country has we choose to defend U.S. interests.
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Australia will do whatever Captain Yankee says. When has this country ever really been sovereign? If we're not following the British into wars, then we're following the Americans.
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Or just join Brics, keep trading with its neighbours and make money. Australia should just be neutral. I feel like it's that simple, China-Taiwan conflict is not Australia's problem.
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Seeing as China is our biggest economic partner, we ought to join BRICS asap. China is our friend.
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Australia is suffering loneliness needlessly ... Lee Kwan Yew highlighted the way out for Australia eons ago when he was Singapore PM: don't act like the sole Anglo Saxon pillar in Asia, but an important Asian power in Asia! But no, that's just not acceptable for Australian "sense and sensibilities" ...
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Time for an independent Australian foreign and defence policy. Unfortunately, we are currently owned by the Americans.
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If I had to choose sides. Id pick the country that is most responsible for our high standards of living in Australia. The country that has an excess of affordable housing. The country that has educated and lifted out of poverty hundreds of millions of it's people. Who's leaders got there by doing the hard yards at a small, local level learning their trade. Who do you think that is?
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Why is everyone so paranoid about China or Russia for that matter, a danger to your national security? The only country I would worry about is America! All you have to do is look at the history of the country.
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What I’ve learned from University and later working for the Australian health system is that these ‘Professors’ are often wrong, ignorant and have no idea of reality.
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What this gentleman is really trying to say is Australia must and always remain a loyal lackey of America
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Aus would be fools to side with the West when you're isolated in Asia. Australia is Asia , make friends, build relationships.
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"Oh no China might come and take us, and built high speed trains, and pull people out of poverty, what horror!... 😂
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All that rambling doesn't hide the prof's failure to accept that Australia needs to live in Asia. Being uncomfortable living in Asia dominated by Asian countries says much about Prof White's being stuck in the old Anglo colonial mindset.
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US “benign” hegemony in Central and South America and the Caribbean…? What is this man talking about? He only remembers Cuba? What about Haiti, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chile, Venezuela… the list is endless…. and now current threats to Panama???
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wow , a true underestimation of US violence across the world Hugh . cant really take his opinion seriously, i was expecting more ...shame.
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Hugh White needs to learn history. China was the world power before Great Britain could build a decent sea-worthy ship. Its generals sailed around the world in warships TWICE yet never colonised any country.
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Australia is trying to play it both ways, as a major trade partner to China & by allowing a major increase in US military build-up in Northern Australia. Will this strategy work? Perhaps in the short-term, but lets not forget BRICS' growing appeal in SE Asia. Australia should embrace its geoeconomic position in Asia & realise the geopolitical liability on-shore US forces & installations pose to Australian security.
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Australia feel alone because it has consciously isolated itself from the region.
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'Benign western hegemony' Professor? Sorry, can't listen to any more if this. Even Pascal raised his eyebrows at the Russian threat to the Baltic States. 8 mins in, and I'm done listening to this man. 😡
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Great interview. Thanks Pascal. You stripped it down to the bone. Basically, if, if if, ...if Asians, be it Chinese or Indonesians, become like us Europeans, we should be afraid of them. And we Europeans can't even understand that not everyone is as imperialistically crazy as the Anglo-Saxons and the rest of the Europeans. Priceless.
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I’m Australian, this use of ‘us’ and ‘we’ language is obnoxious to say the least. With due respect, Prof. does not represent me or many people I know. This longing to be a Europe proper is imperialist and outdated. Having said that, pretty sure our Indigenous peoples got along with our neighbours just fine. For 60 000 years even. I don’t know a single Australian who thinks the US is a positive influence on our region and is up at night worrying about China. What we do worry about is the power of people with thoroughly short sighted and neo-colonial views to segregate us even further from our regional neighbours. Clearly there is a deep disconnect between Australian people and our political class. Sound familiar?
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Once a colonialist, always a colonialist. Thankfully, both Russia and China sit on the side of anti-colonialism.
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Stop talking about threat and war. Start talking about reaching hands and peace. NOT PEACE BY WAR!
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The politicians in Australia should ask themselves what is good for Australia and what do the people want for their future. Subservience is not a good answer but sovereignty is good.
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New Zealand (my home country) and Australia, need to accept they are south pacific nations with indigenous populations and Asian neighbors and get the Union Jacks off their flags and join BRICS.
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I stopped listening to Professor White after a few minutes. He has bought into the white Anglo Saxon delusions about Russia bad, China not far behind and the US good. Very disappointing analysis.
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I'm surprised Hugh White is your interviewee. He's closely associated with ASPI, the US backed Australian think tank that spearheaded anti-China rhetorics on Uyghurs, Covid and totalitarianism. In 2019, he debated with Mearsheimer whether Australia should take the side of US or China in the geopolitical rivalry. He was 'supposed' to argue for China. However, his arguments are so weak and hesitant, conceding much grounds to Mearsheimer that the debate could only be seen as farcical, set up to convince Australians on the pro-US narrative. May I suggest John Lander, a former Australian Ambassador to China who has a more pro-Aussie independent minded view.
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Hugh White's "benign" igorance is as dangerous to Australia's discourse as the US's "benign" hegemony has been to the global majority.
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We Aussies have ample reason to feel ashamed and disturbed that Rupert Murdoch has had such a significant perverse role in keeping Australians uninformed, ignorant of global events, brainwashed against imaginary enemies of 'Empire', & obedient to powers that ought-not-be!
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too much imperialist thinking is a threat to academia! Australia can do better than get tangled in US/Western anxiety over China.
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I’m Australian and I don’t agree with his opinion, this is just a throwback to colonial times. China has every right to advance its economy. The west encouraged globalism. Now it’s hear they don’t like the fact that China and India and advancing economically. China has gone to war with nobody, which is more that can be said for Anglo-Saxon countries.
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Ive never heard such ridiculous nonsense of Australia ever waring with China or any other regional country. Respecting ones neighbours is paramount to peaceful and prosperous longevity !
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I would say Australia proved itself to be more than capable of morphing into Authoritarianism all on its own during the pandemic. We didn’t need any help from China. It’s great you have a guest like this on Pascal, as he has a very different view to your usual guests. Shows you have integrity and openness. Thank you 👏 It also reveals the cognitive dissonance and reality of the impact of decades of propaganda in Australia. I’m grateful for platforms such as yourself, that provide a different view, helping those who are curious to understand the world with a little depth, and try to unshackle our minds and work out for ourselves what we believe in, rather than just accepting the ‘consensus’
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Australia has this greatly exaggerated view of its own importance in the world. From China's viewpoint Australia's main importance is as an apparently limitless source of iron ore and coking coal. From the US point of view Australia is in a strategic geographical location, filling a small hole in their vast spread of military bases.
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I really can't see how the USA has made Australia safer in fact I think the opposite 😢
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If Australia feels alone its because we havn't bothered to cultivate meaningful relationships with our neighbours. As Warwick Powell has said "we seek security from Asia not in Asia" . Australia is like a child clinging to its mothers skirt. 😢
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Building nuclear submarines to threaten your largest trading partner, what a joke !
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We Australians can't carry on believing that we are going to thrive in future as an isolated Eurocentric rump in our region of the world. Yet here we are, still hitched to the clearly dysfunctional superpower of the USA, all the while benefitting most from our close trade links with China. We also give up on our former, admirable ambition to better understand our neighbours in Indonesia, the next major power in SE Asia - language studies of Indonesian have withered on the vine. Our leaders have the vision of myopic bats!
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consumed by paranoia the roots from its colonial past
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Judging by the comments, Australian people don't share Professor White's view. The question is who is trying to push this narrative on Australian public.
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In thousands of years China has not been aggressive against any country as far as I can see, so why would they be aggressive now unless attacked?
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Time to separate from America
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The trouble is Australians don’t understand the US will abandon us eventually if it appears to be in their interest. This is how geopolitics is done. That psychic shock will cripple that generation if it happens. We are not ready and we need to be wised up to the realities.
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"Fairly benign"... What world is he living in? I like Pascal's reaction... 😄😄
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This guy is a great example of how it doesn't matter how intelligent you are... 'garbage in, garbage out.'
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I was seriously worried about the audio quality, and then I realized that there were war drums sounding every time he opened his mouth.
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Thanks for this glimpse of the completely delusional thinking of the Aussie establishment. Your headline says it all.
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I doubt the countries that have experienced American hegemony would agree that it is benign.
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I think that AUKUS is only positively seen by politicians, the public is not very excited about it.
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All of Asia has lived with a powerful China for thousands of years with very few problems!
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What a brainless warmonger.😢
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Reminds me of that Aussie comedy skit with a bunch of military general debating how to develop a strategy to protect Australia's economic interests with their biggest trade partner, China from military aggression... from China. It's a real tricky one, I hope they figure it out one day!
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1. The US doesn't need Australia to rescue it from anything. 2. By this logic, Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam, Korea, Germany and the Afrikan Bores didn't threaten Australia either. So Australia shouldn't go to war ever...
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Really stupid attitude to believe that the Anglo-Saxon heritage is something great to preserve forever.
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Penny Wong is not acting in the interests of the Australian public. She's just talking the talk long enough to become the ANU Chancellor.
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The thunder from down under will be a blunder
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In England there is an old saying that 'many a true word is spoken in jest'. Kissinger is reported as having said, presumably in jest, "being an enemy of the US is dangerous. Being a friend of the US is fatal."
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Australia needs to grow up and be truly independent as a nation; not a dwarf for USA, not China , nor Britain.
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This is my first and last time I view anything by this Professor from down-under. As a 'professor' he is so lopsided it is unbelievable! Therefore I don't want to waste my precious time to hear till the end.
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Why are all leaders insane?
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We have very few decent analysts in Australia. Unfortunately it seems Hugh is not one of them.
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As an Australian who has a spouse from Chile, I take issue with the idea that the USA is a benign hegemon, even in the western hemisphere. Latin America has suffered over 100 invasions by the US, with 100s of thousands killed.
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Australia will not be another Ukraine . We respect our friendship with China .
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Bogey man here, bogey man there, bogey man everywhere 😂😂😂
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Some people are still living the END of History Fukuyama style. To think that only the US EMPIRE can be the hegemon is like thinking that the Roman Empire would never end. You can not stop history
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My head tweeked to one side when he made the remarks about Russia threatening the Baltic states too. Makes me wonder if he really knows what is going on. Still has a lot of bias against "non western" powers.
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Pascal does a great job of completely ignoring his guest's idiocy regarding Russia.
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My whole family will leave Australia if Australia breaks war.
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Thank god right at the start he shows us not to waste our time listening to him. His claim that Russia is likely to attack the Baltic states is patent nonsense.
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He does not know even the Ukranian issue. It hurts to listen him about Russia threatening Baltic states. Its a plane LIE!
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The issue with Australia’s internal debates about security, is that they only discuss these with the Americans. They never deign to discuss these issues with Asian powers. Anglo Australians feel isolated because they prefer it that way, as it resonates with US attitudes to the rest of the world.
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No war! This should go to the people for referendum. I swear. The vast majority of us do not want war!
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So Albo, Dutton and thier buercrats will be on front lines, its their war not australian peoples😂😂😂
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where did you stumble onto this bloke? If that is who is advising our politicians we have little hope
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Not sure Russia invading a Baltic nation doesn’t need a feat of imagination. There is nothing there and Russia is plenty big already. What they going to invade for: an Estonian tree?
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This is rubbish
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Public opinion has evolved over the decades as many more Australians have visited China for a holiday. They view China more positively now.
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🌹🇷🇺🇨🇳🇫🇮👍 Regards from Finland, the tiny land but great alien leaders like Mr. Stubb, Mr. Niinistö, Ms. Valtonen und Hernn Adlercroitz. We are ruined, all is lost including peace, prosperity, foreign trade, schools, healthcare...
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we in Australia do not control our foreign or defence policy
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Mutually assured prosperity where diplomacy and respect is the norm not bullying and corrupt deals. How about ditching the bully and telling our neighbours we are in this together? Brics offers more than a dying genocidal empire. And to begin with, stop pointing the finger on behalf of the corrupt and incompetent America at other nations for their own downfall. We all witnessed the lies throughout the years, and for what? Genocide to steal land and resources.
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This Prof. is truly delusional when it comes to Russia.
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Australia has one thing the world wants and will be prepared to take, that thing is! 'Everything'
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Battle of Brisbane was american military vs Australian servicemen. China has never showed aggression to Australia.
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I used to watch RT America. They provide very fair and balanced coverage of all events and all situations unlike this gentleman who has lopsided views on geopolitics. Maybe you should also tell him that if China wanted Australia, she would have easily colonized this continent centuries back. And he should also be reminded that the Japanese that they are currently aligned to is the one and only nation that has ever invaded Australia. China came with shared prosperity in their mind. I think you too were puzzled by his views. But understandable. He has an imperialistic mindset.
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Paul Keating, in his time, as a Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, and , more recently his documentaries, (at his age) to reflect so much importance, regard, Australia, AUKUS, China, the Pacific ...!
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Benign 😂 well we all know we can ignore this guy. Obviously a company man to the core. Sad
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It's amazing that Hugh displays a total absence of ANY understanding of Chinese culture, mindset, nor psychology.
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thats what the US military base are for, its to make sure the colonies stay in line.
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Any business which treat their biggest customer with contempt would have no chance of surviving... yet this is exactly what Australia is doing
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Clearly Professor Whote continues to be rewarded for his support of the US narrative.
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Stopped watching when he referred to the US as a BENIGN hegemon. Laughable. Ridiculous.
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This man has a very appropriate surname
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With what army because most of Australia's population doesn't want to join the miltary, let alone go to a war with our biggest trading partners, we have not ever had a war with China. China has not attacked Australia or threatened it. Yes the liberal national party are causing a fuss. Many people here are not exactly happy with the situation as things stand with the Americans nor trust them after the Julian Assange issue, and not very happy with various British governments as well. I can not see a war with China as an option that is has a positive outcome for Australia and it's populations interest. Mostly just a few think tanks is all that want to milk it.
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And those powerful friends never defended Australia in the past only used Australian people to be in the first lines where those "friends" didn't want to send their soldiers.
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Australia should be Independent, the Switzerland of the Asian region. Instead Australian policy confirms our positions as a pawn of the aggressive USA. A humiliating and dangerous position.
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Interesting how Westerners think: power, challenge, dominance, hegemony, rival ... They are so narcissistic that they cannot and will not understand that other countries and cultures may think and function differently. China has a huge population, and a very large undeveloped population and underdeveloped areas. Providing the same quality of life to all Chinese people is a main objective for China. (China spends far more and invests far more in its citizens than a country like America does ... to provide quality of life to all.) China has been a trading nation for centuries, so trading with the rest of the world is what they are naturally going to do. If they need to invest in infrastructure in other regions in the world, it is to open up areas for trade. China has often had conflicts with neighbours (never mind internal conflicts), hence the development of a strong military. Western aggression (America has a massive military that is used to wage war, to invade and to occupy across the world, not to defend its borders) towards China means that China finds itself with a country that is a threat but not a neighbour, so it is increasingly being pushed to invest more in military (i.e. be ready for war with the West, in case it happens).
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Wow, never seen so many people thinking the guy is just so wrong, and in so many ways, is hope giving.
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A war with China can only be initiated by the Anglo-Saxons, not by the Chinese, who will do everything they can to avoid war. The Anglo-Saxons are by nature colonizers and aggressive all over the world. The Chinese are Confucionists with a completely different mindset, worldview and attitude to international relation's. Unfortunately, Westerners, especially the Anglo-Saxons are stuck in a dominance paradigm, that simply belongs in the 17'th Century. We are now in the 21'st Century and the present reality has not yet been recognized by the so-called Collective West.
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