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    You can't sell shit to dead people. Why would China want to kill off all of those customers?

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    You can't sell shit to dead people. Why would China want to kill off all of those customers?
    . . . right . . . because a few customers less for some $50 trinket will make the difference, sabang.


    For someone who has lived in the area you really don't know the mentality.

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    For someone who has lived in the area you really don't know the mentality.
    Lived HK 12.5 years, married to a HK Chinese wife, speak slightly atrocious Cantonese, even lived with a Chinese family (the inlaws) for a while but... don't know their mentality. Yeh sure. Guess we need armchair experts like donald trump for that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    It has everything to do with it- it was parrotting mike pompeousarse' invective that kicked off this mess in the first place. Now the pollies, pressured of course by business lobbies, are scrambling to find a solution.
    So how does it feel to be bitchslapped, Dept'y Sheriff? Uncle Sam gonna come riding to your rescue, fair damsel in distress? Thanks for costing us billions.
    Typical chinky-style bullshit to try and deflect away from the truth. "Chinky bullying is because of USA blah blah blah" fuck off, it's because Australia said it wants a proper investigation of the chinkies coverup of the Wuhan Virus.

    It is all coming out now, and they are doing their best to silence any critics and try and blame everyone else but themselves.

    Not to mention slyly buying up all the worlds PPE at the time so everyone else suffered.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    Lived HK 12.5 years, married to a HK Chinese wife, speak slightly atrocious Cantonese, even lived with a Chinese family (the inlaws) for a while but... don't know their mentality. Yeh sure. Guess we need armchair experts like donald trump for that.
    So that's where you learned to bullshit.

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    "Chinky bullying is because of USA blah blah blah"
    More specifically, chinky bullying is because of some dumbarsed aussie politicians parroting that outgoing, belligerent USA dumbarse pompousarse. Obviously magnified by the Murdoch media- which really seems to have it in for Australia. That is what kicked it off anyway, although there were several other grievances too. Such as Huawei.

    Yeh, that will do. Anyway, counting the cost now, just as I said would happen. Still counting....

    On the bright side, some bargain wines to be had, just in the lead up to Xmas season.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    More specifically, chinky bullying is because of some dumbarsed aussie politicians parroting that outgoing, belligerent USA dumbarse pompousarse. Obviously magnified by the Murdoch media- which really seems to have it in for Australia. That is what kicked it off anyway, although there were several other grievances too. Such as Huawei.

    Yeh, that will do. Anyway, counting the cost now, just as I said would happen. Still counting....

    On the bright side, some bargain wines to be had, just in the lead up to Xmas season.
    The chinkies will bully anyone if they can't bribe them.

    It's their modus operandus.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Looper View Post
    Australia V China
    Interesting thread. Been watching it daily. General observation is Austrailia is punching way above it's weight class. China is an "800-pound gorilla". A person, organization or nation so powerful that it can act without regard to the rights of others or the law.

    So my Aussie mates. Grin and bear it.
    "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect,"

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    modus operandus.
    Who's he ?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Norton View Post
    Interesting thread. Been watching it daily. General observation is Austrailia is punching way above it's weight class. China is an "800-pound gorilla". A person, organization or nation so powerful that it can act without regard to the rights of others or the law.

    So my Aussie mates. Grin and bear it.
    Correct, Australia can't do it on their own. Needs a concerted effort.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Norton View Post
    So my Aussie mates. Grin and bear it.
    Absolutely

    Denmark is on the receiving end these days.

    Has offered asylum to Hong Kong dissidents, and then we know what happens.

    I think that the chinese outbursts will be mostly ignored


    The difference being, that we are NOT exporting "all" our goods to one customer

    Not too bright those aussies

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    Correct, Australia can't do it on their own.
    if we got our leaders heads out of murdochs arse and knocked them on the head we could be starting our own green steel empire using hydrogen from wind and solar in north west aust

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    Quote Originally Posted by baldrick View Post
    if we got our leaders heads out of murdochs arse and knocked them on the head we could be starting our own green steel empire using hydrogen from wind and solar in north west aust
    But you're selling your coal not using it.

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    So my Aussie mates. Grin and bear it.

    Well, it's not all bad. A lobster & champagne Christmas coming up! Prices for lobster are the lowest they've been in decades. If Australia wants to bring it's prices down, I'm quite happy to enjoy the fruits of the lucky country- while it lasts. Not a bad spot to be in SA either- HQ of the lobster, oyster & wine industry in Oz! I guess their stupidity is my Christmas cheer.




    Cheap lobsters on offer for Christmas tables as prices plummet due to China import ban


    Cheap lobsters on offer for Christmas tables as prices plummet due to China import ban - ABC News

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    The good thing is if the chinkies keep running around doing this to everyone it will encourage the victims to get together.

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    The good thing is if the chinkies keep running around doing this to everyone it will encourage the victims to get together.
    I'm afraid money talks more than even you do

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    A lobster & champagne Christmas coming up!
    The silver lining. Envy you Sab. No lobster n champagne up here for Christmas. Somtom and Spy I think.

    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    Correct, Australia can't do it on their own. Needs a concerted effort.
    Yep. 5, 200 lb gorillas will do nicely.

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    I have always maintained that Australia has everything to become totally self sufficient but mistakes have been made over the last 4 decades.

    These mistakes, mainly the shutting down and relocation of its engineering and manufacturing industries, needs to be reversed and when that happens fuck China.

    I would also suggest that Australia become a serious nuclear power and build their military to protect what every other country, mainly China, covet.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Norton View Post
    The silver lining. Envy you Sab. No lobster n champagne up here for Christmas. Somtom and Spy I think.
    In lovely New Zealand prices have gone up . . . with the 'reasoning' that there's little foreign labor so production is lower, fewer exports = ergo sum: prices must go up.

    Orchards here are geared for export - second grade products are sold locally. We're now at NZD$4.50/kg of apples. Roughly 1,-/apple.

    Prices of seafood here are absurd

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    We've got problems getting our veges picked- no backpackers. So vege prices are up- but seafood way down and wine being moderately discounted, at least in SA.
    So it's oysters, tuna sashimi & steak, & lobster for Xmas- and just a few veges. Oh, and wine of course. Shouldn't complain, Scotty from marketing just handed me a christmas gift.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    Shouldn't complain, Scotty from marketing just handed me a christmas gift.
    A 4 pack of Fosters or a tub of Vegemite?

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    Quote Originally Posted by helge View Post
    I'm afraid money talks more than even you do
    Precisely my point you fucking moron.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    We've got problems getting our veges picked- no backpackers.
    I think most of them used to be picked by trafficked slaves - shipped in by unscrupulous companies under subsidized visa systems and nickle and dimed to poverty wages while complicit bureaucrats dreamed about going up grades as they fulfilled their quotas

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    Quote Originally Posted by baldrick View Post
    I think most of them used to be picked by trafficked slaves - shipped in by unscrupulous companies under subsidized visa systems and nickle and dimed to poverty wages while complicit bureaucrats dreamed about going up grades as they fulfilled their quotas
    Is that like the dead UK winkle pickers or whatever?

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