Survey finds 47% believe Aukus locks Australia in to supporting the US in an armed conflict, while concern about conflict with China has fallen
  • magnetosphere@kbin.social
    9·
    11 months ago

    Only seems fair. Trump would drop the alliance like a hot potato if it was in his own best interest, then he’d use shitty logic and appeals to emotion to convince us that it was in the nation’s best interest. His supporters would mindlessly lap up every bit of it.

  • tygerprints@kbin.social
    147·
    11 months ago

    If trump gets re-elected, my ass is outta here and I’ll spend every last breath I have to have my American citizenship renounced. I will not be associated with a holocaust corrupted nation of evildoers and sick weirdos any longer. I’d sooner live in a gutter in any third world country, which would be a considerable step up morally from what America has now become.

    • Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      131·
      11 months ago

      In 2016, I said half-jokingly that I was moving to Canada if he won. Then he won and now here I am in Canada. Granted, I was a senior in high school when he won and I was already applying to a couple universities in Canada. But definitely was worth it. As many issues as Canada has (cough cough housing crisis), I at least trust it to not descend into fully-fledged fascism any time soon.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    A significant minority of Australians think the country should withdraw from the overall Anzus security alliance with the US if Donald Trump returns to the White House, while just under half of the respondents in a new poll believe the Aukus pact locks Australia in to supporting the US in any armed conflict.

    But after the steady thaw in diplomatic relations between Canberra and Beijing over the past 12 months, and the release of Australia’s defence strategic review in April, 49% say that now.

    A majority of Australian respondents (63%) believe China will become the most economically and militarily influential country in Asia over the coming couple of decades (32% say the US will be the pre-eminent power).

    The new poll findings follow Anthony Albanese’s return from an official visit to Washington and ahead of the prime minister’s trip to Shanghai and Beijing at the end of this week.

    Seven months after Albanese joined Biden and the British prime minister, Rishi Sunak, in San Diego to announce the Aukus plans, there remains uncertainty over congressional approvals needed for them to succeed.

    Asked on Tuesday whether or not he was walking a diplomatic tightrope between the strategic competitors – Washington and Beijing – the prime minister said Australians wanted him “to be direct about our interests”.

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