There have been plenty of protests about Pine Gap, way back in cold war days when there was an active actual Peace Movement. Maybe we all just grew older and gave up, in the face of government indifference to people's opinions, together with the end of the cold war.
And as someone else pointed out in this thread, it is not a case of "either-or".
Personally, I would kick both of them out.
The bilateral trade advantage seems to go down the drain when it suits them (like now) so I would rather the CCP didn't have a controlling interest in access to our ports and air-space.
Hehe, if you think property is sacrosanct, good on you, that puts you squarely in the 99% cattle class with the rest of us. Tell that one to anyone from any people who's some how survived Eminent Domain, or perhaps go to chat with a Oz based diplomat from Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Venezuela, or better yet a headman of the Wakkawakka about the value of a contract or common law rights. Frankly, considering the foundations of "white" Australia, I think the Chinese are idiots to trust their investments to the protection of the state, but what exactly did they buy them with, US Fed notes of deposit, which are also a fiction.
There have been plenty of protests about Pine Gap, way back in cold war days when there was an active actual Peace Movement. Maybe we all just grew older and gave up, in the face of government indifference to people's opinions, together with the end of the cold war.
And as someone else pointed out in this thread, it is not a case of "either-or".
Personally, I would kick both of them out.
The bilateral trade advantage seems to go down the drain when it suits them (like now) so I would rather the CCP didn't have a controlling interest in access to our ports and air-space.
Hehe, if you think property is sacrosanct, good on you, that puts you squarely in the 99% cattle class with the rest of us. Tell that one to anyone from any people who's some how survived Eminent Domain, or perhaps go to chat with a Oz based diplomat from Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Venezuela, or better yet a headman of the Wakkawakka about the value of a contract or common law rights. Frankly, considering the foundations of "white" Australia, I think the Chinese are idiots to trust their investments to the protection of the state, but what exactly did they buy them with, US Fed notes of deposit, which are also a fiction.