Australia faces no credible military threat from China. The real danger lies in uncritical alignment with US strategy, fear-driven rhetoric and the steady erosion of national sovereignty.

The only potential China threat we face is acting as a proxy for the US.

On cue the Five Eyes and our intelligence agencies with the encouragement, particularly the Murdoch media, propagandise about the China threat. The China hawks have not been able to provide any credible evidence for this threat. But they keep repeating the fear mongering China threat.

We are being led in our anti-China hysteria by the United States which is not concerned that China will attack us, or even the United States, but is concerned that its world hegemony is being challenged.

That is why the US is persistently goading China into conflict and possible war. And we follow along.

What the United States really resents about China is that it is successful after almost two centuries of poverty and humiliation.

China has certainly changed but the problem is the US refuses to change and accept the fact that it’s no longer the sole hegemon.

Both major US parties have a common view about the ‘China threat’ and heavily influenced if not controlled by the military/industrial complex supported by a compliant media. We follow like a patsy.

The United States is by any measure the most aggressive and violent country in the world and will not accept a multi-polar world where countries large and small can live in peace together. The US has a dogmatic and self- righteous view that it is ‘exceptional’, a ‘chosen people’ and should set global rules for everyone.

It parrots endlessly about ‘a rules based international order’ to replace the UN order. That is really code for US hegemony and domination. And to top up its cynicism, the US then cherry picks the rules that it decides to support.

The US is a dangerous ally, as Malcom Fraser warned us many years ago.

With the complicity of our Ministers, senior public officials and journalists our national sovereignty is being seriously eroded. Our military is being fused with the US.

In the 19th and 20th Century we were drawn into United Kingdom’s Imperial wars. We are now drawn into the United States’ imperial wars. We allow others to control our thinking and behaviour.

Our ‘leaders’, like Richard Marles, have been on an American drip feed for so long they have an instinctive Washington mind set.

As China reasserts its historic world role there is no doubt that Chinese influence and footprint is growing in our region, but there is no evidence whatsoever that we are under........

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