61% of Australians favor sending navy to prevent Chinese blockade of Taiwan: Lowy Institute poll | Taiwan News | 2023-06-21 13:35:00
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64% of respondents favor 'Australia sending arms and military supplies to the Taiwanese government' | 2023-06-21 13:35:00
  • Rogue_General@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    There’s that magic number 40% again. Special people, that 40%… same percentage of Americans who approve of Trump too.

    Glad the majority has a backbone though.

  • Roadkill@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    61% of Australians don’t realise that our Navy will have no meaningful impact.

    Would be better of banning exports of coal and iron ore to China, but that would hurt the megga proffits of our mining magnates and we can’t have that.

    • jrs100000@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Maybe not on their own, but even in a support roll they can free up US, Japanese and Korean assets. And its often better to keep supply chains open so you have something to cut off later if needed. The whole goal here is to prevent or delay conflict by making a potential attack too costly to risk.