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y'all can just flip to china and they'll treat you really nice to try and placate future potential allies
at least... for like a decade or two
Nah we just signed a big pact with the US and UK and now we're buying all their hand me down helicopters and shit.
China's still one of your major trading partners, though.
They are but things are definitely getting hot with China. There's also been some issues with trade and diplomacy since our ex PM publicly called for an investigation into the origins of covid. China did not respond well to that and our previous government's approach to diplomacy didn't help. At one point China actually wasn't answering calls from us.
We are walking a very fine line because we absolutely depend on trade with China but we've also entered in an alliance for the explicit purpose of preparing for a potential conflict with China. There's absolutely no reality where we side with China over America. We would destroy our economy before we back out of our alliance with the US. We have followed them into every war since ww2.
Oh, yeah I know you wouldn't. You're in kind of a tricky situation but I think that spat over covid sort of tested boundaries for you.
I'm in Aotearoa, obviously we have a similar problem. Culturally we would go where you go, but on the other hand we didn't follow the US into Iraq. China are by far our biggest trading partner, and also those of us with a long memory were disillusioned by how our allies treated us over the Rainbow Warrior terrorist attack so there's probably not the same level of confidence.