“Since the Thai VT-4 going to Japan caused problems, lets add China and Korea to the same tree as Japan.”
three East Asian countries have not been on good terms since long ago, and will certainly cause problems ;-;
This is a very bad idea for so many reasons.
In the case of Australia going with China?
China is our primary concern as a national security threat. That’s pretty political, one of the many many reasons this idea is bad. This post is really just a demonstration of ignorance of geopolitics for some goal that doesn’t line up with any of your claims. This is before we even consider the geopolitical strife between the Asian nations that is only recently cooling.
There is no good outcome to this.
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…is also that certain nations still think they would be relevant - whilst the have zero (conventional) combat power in a theoretical conflict.
If geopolitics would play an actual role very strong regional powers like Turkey or India would have their own tech trees - and Nato without the US would be a combined tree.
I mean you can google the number of “ready for combat” MBTs and actual combat troops of the combined Nato powers in Europe to understand that there is a huge gap between what the think they can do and what they are actually capable of doing.
Whilst this looks comprehensible - a security threat in the classic sense is either based on military supremacy of one party/nation (and their willingness to use it) or their economic relevance/dependencies/trade relationships.
So even as Australia has vast natural resources it makes no economic sense for any power to invest a hell of money in order to conquer these resources and to occupy the country in order to exploit these resources.
We have several examples that even countries with unlimited funding (based on obscure financial practices) have issues with the occupation costs and/or the political pressure of their population.
So it is way cheaper to buy the stuff you need. Or to buy the land with the resources. Or to do both.
150 years ago the duration of armed conflicts / wars was limited as available funds to pay and feed soldiers were the decisive factor.
Have a good one!
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