The Inevitability of a War

Mark Wilson says we're best off adopting the Men'sies view of ANZUS or even orcas for that matter. We don't want to make ourselves a target because as long as our proverbial points to the ground, we will never change America's view about primacy," he says. Kevin Rudd's appointment, I think, was very good from that point of view. He can lead some of those hawkish Republicans, 18 of them in the House of Representatives, apparently support Taiwanese independence - which is a prescription for war. But if the worst thing that faces Taiwan would be what prevails in Hong Kong today, then we haven't got a cause for war.