AUKUS war hawks and misatheist megacultists and their impact on our economy

These outcomes and their causes are unequivocally stupid and completely unnecessary - and all on behalf of insane servitude to the US military industrial machine. Paul Keating was right. The Taiwan situation is not our business or responsibility.

There is no scenario in which the Taiwan-China conflict is a less dangerous scenario with the US and allies involved. The US is driven by its MIC geoeconomic feedback loop and by the desire to establish an ongoing intelligence listening post on its geoeconomic and geopolitical competitor's doorstep by effectively stealing the technology park that is Taiwan.

Not to mention that Western megacultists and capitalists have been painfully wrong about socialism with Chinese characteristics. The brilliant Han keep stubbornly overperforming (I am not for a moment assuming that the sociopolitical landscape within China is homogeneous and simple and involves no lines of division. China is a huge chunk of humanity).

'Invasion' or no invasion of Taiwan by China: Xi has every reason to limit any damage to a minimum. Taiwan is not just an errant territory to Xi and the CPC, but is a jewel in their tech crown. Not to mention that Xi's MO towards all Chinese people has never been violent, and certainly not genocidal.

And of course - no: Xinjiang is not a counterexample. Claims to that effect are overblown and nearly vacuous. Compared to the US response the Islamic megacult in the Middle East (and Australia's problems with the structural abuse of First Nations people in the Northern Territory), Xi and the CPC have been gentle. Especially given the nature of the Islamic terror in Xinjiang and Yunnan and the memetic narratives that motivate it.

#AUKUS is already presenting obvious problems that were easily foreseeable. We need to stop being led around by the nose by the US-UK-European MIC and foreign state actors that are driven by the economics and geopolitics of the MIC geoeconomic and geostrategic feedback loop.

(In control systems theory and Norbert Wiener's original cybernetics, a feedback system is one where outputs drive inputs until the system reaches an overflow or unstable condition. Control systems theory commonly applied in nuclear reactor and steel smelter designs: anywhere there is a big container of hot stuff with substances flowing in and out. Control systems theory and general systems theory can be applied in modelling other types of dynamical systems as well, including economic and geoeconomic systems.)

We should replace AUKUS with a treaty with China, The United States, New Zealand, and Australia. We can then have both Chinese and US bases here, and the increased regional security that entails. Both the US and China will be required by us to have appropriate and sensible diplomatic relations and we can reward them with regional benefits for good international behaviour, as well as mediating their relationship on a neutral basis (neutral in the sense that we ensure that we do not favour either party except where they are better behaved as a state actor.) After all - Australia is an entire continent stretching from The Indian Ocean to The Pacific Rim.

Readings

Foster, J. (2005). From simplistic to complex systems in economics. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 29(6), 873-892.

Kirchner, S. (2021). A geoeconomic alliance: the potential and limits of economic statecraft.

Liu, S., & Forrest, J. Y. L. (2010). Grey systems: theory and applications. Springer Science & Business Media.

Martin, R., & Sunley, P. (2007). Complexity thinking and evolutionary economic geography. Journal of economic geography, 7(5), 573-601.

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