Using laws to ban competitors is just economic warfare thats all. Its got nothing to do with "national security", thats just the reason they give us normies. You should be safe in Australia since they actually need to be friends with China.
> You should be safe in Australia since they actually need to be friends with China.
As a non-Australian, I enjoyed very much reading about Australia in a book by Tim Marshall titled "The Power of Geography". I didn't quite realize just how vulnerable they become with China's ambitions and expanse in the South Pacific due to their reliance on vital sea lanes for trade with its Asian partners. After reading that book, I can appreciate your comment much more.
Economic safety can be guaranteed in many ways. It's not economic safety that these moves are for. It's for blocking anyone from preventing them from maximizing the value the Western oligarchs extract from both their own citizens and the entire world.
What? Every country has the right to freely decide which companies are permitted to operate under its jurisdiction, and exercising that right isn’t “warfare” of any kind.
I think the country that talks the most how the market regulates itself and needs no state intervention isn't the most qualified to put tariffs and block other countries from trade. And yet here we are…