{"id":159548,"date":"2026-10-30T21:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T21:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159548"},"modified":"2026-10-30T21:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T21:30:08","slug":"the-flaw-in-australias-china-threat-thesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159548","title":{"rendered":"The flaw in Australia\u2019s \u2018China threat\u2019 thesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAustralia\u2019s preparations for a possible conflict with China reflect \u201ca relatively superficial understanding\u201d, argues prominent economist John Edwards. Europe, Canada, Indonesia, Malaysia and India, he notes, are not preparing for such a conflict. Why should Australia?<br \/>\nEdwards, a former senior economic adviser to former Labor prime minister Paul Keating, makes the observation in a Lowy Institute paper released in October and in a newspaper interview.<br \/>\nInstead, he sees US-China rivalry as a&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/asia-opinion\/article\/3372519\/flaw-australias-china-threat-thesis\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAustralia\u2019s preparations for a possible conflict with China reflect \u201ca relatively superficial understanding\u201d, argues prominent economist John Edwards. Europe, Canada, Indonesia, Malaysia and India,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159548"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}