cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/16322892

While the US and EU are putting up barriers to Chinese cars, Australians are buying them at record levels

  • eatthecake@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Probably because we don’t make cars, or anything else. We dig stuff up, send it to China and buy it back in the form of goods.

      • jonne@infosec.pub
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        6 months ago

        It is a colony. The King of England can just fire the Prime Minister any time he likes.

        • tal
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          6 months ago

          The governor-general of Australia doesn’t actually work for the King these days.

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          6 months ago

          No he can’t. Australia, like Canada where I live, is simply a Commonwealth nation. As such Britain has absolutely zero control over politics or who leads the nation.

        • bfg9k@lemmy.world
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          6 months ago

          That’s what guns are for in the US. Hunting, recreational sport, and keeping the King of England out of your face. It’s all in the Constitution

          (/s if it’s not blatantly obvious)