The Asia + the Antipodes Thread

[Colonel Sun]

[Azrael]

[Endovelico]

[Colonel Sun]

[noddy]

with a hat tip to secular humanism and tribal democracy.

for the first time in the last 100 years, australias 2 party system is suspiciously missing a party.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/nati ... 6027698798

NSW, the biggest state (thusly the most politically dominant one) has completey and utterly rejected the labour/green coalition that is currently the federal government by not voting for any of them in the latest state election.... barely 20% of seats went to the left, and none to the greens.

usually in australia its a fairly even 45/55 split with 40/60 considered a landslide... recently its been getting more wobbly.

the intersting thing is the "unpalatables" each party is carrying to get a magority ... for the liberals its the ultra fundies (no gays, no immigrants) and for the labour its the communists in everything but name that is the greens.

the "thoughtful" (cough) middle class voted the labour/green coalition in as a tonic against the liberal fundies, however they have almost overnight blown all the budget and decided to raise taxes and bring in communist schemes, and the "thoughtfuls" (cough) have run scared back to the liberals, because gay marriage isnt as important as a comfy lifestyle and stable economics.

the green alliance with its anti worker themes and tax everything to death mottos also destroyed the labour parties declared base, the lower middle class workers who can barely survive in the current housing climate .. the last thing they wanted was more taxes and more crawling to government to justify rebates.

on top of this, the labour party shot itself in every magor body part by declaring itself anti gay marriage and immigration (mindboggling!)

if only a right wing person let the gays have civil unions and handled immigration with a bit more nuance, i suspect the labour/green party would never get a vote ever again.

[Colonel Sun]

[noddy]

[Colonel Sun]

People often forget how heartless was 19th century - early 20th century industrialized society.

[Colonel Sun]

[Alph]

[Endovelico]

[Torchwood]

There is some truth in the article but the whole tone is what? How dare China re-colonise Africa! Don't worry, the West will offer no resistance, it's too busy being obsessed with pointless wars in the Middle East.

[Ibrahim]

[Colonel Sun]

[Colonel Sun]

[Torchwood]

There's a simple solution - let the yuan float upwards to its natural level.
Oh wait a minute, that hits all the export oriented factories that the party cronies have their fingers in...

[Azrael]

[Azrael]

[Colonel Sun]

[Colonel Sun]

[Colonel Sun]

Expats in mainland China:

Korea - 120,750
America - 71,439
Japan - 66,159.
Cambodia - 39,776
Vietnam - 36,205
Canada - 19,990
France - 15,807
India - 15,051
Germany - 14,446
Australia - 13,286

[Colonel Sun]

[Ibrahim]

[Colonel Sun]

[Colonel Sun]