Although it will take at least 20 years for Australia to introduce British and American technology to build submarines, the turmoil caused by diplomacy is still expanding.
On the 17th, as soon as the matter came out, Indonesia publicly issued an opposition and warned that Australia's behavior would bring unnecessary arms race to the surrounding areas, demanding that Australia respect international law.
And Australian Prime Minister Morrison, on the way back to Australia from the United States, planned to stay in Indonesia, presumably to appease indonesia's emotions, and the Indonesian president said sorry, I have something, I want to go to another province, not in the capital, not in the capital. Australia hastened to explain that the Indonesian president left the capital this time without seeing Morrison and had nothing to do with nuclear submarines.
What the Indonesian president thinks, it is actually Australia's turn to explain. Instead, the United States and Britain jumped out and said that there was someone behind Indonesia's move, and who did they say was pointing?
In fact, we go back three months, we should be able to remember something, in June, Australia's "Sydney Morning Herald" but accused Indonesia, saying that Indonesia is too close to China, the Australian government should take action to prevent Indonesia from being controlled by China, to keep Indonesia, Australia's closest friend.
Isn't it a shame to say this? The United States is Australia's closest friend, and now for the sake of the United States, Australia has secretly eloped. Therefore, there are people behind what Britain and the United States say, who else can there be?
Since the Australians themselves said that Indonesia is going to turn to China, and this time they have offended Indonesia, and Britain and the United States have also said that we point out Indonesia, so why should China be polite, we can't let Britain and the United States say it once in vain, point out it, and pull it together, we are willing. Truth be told, China and Indonesia have been moving closer for many years.
Some people will certainly remember the time when Indonesia was anti-China and worry about whether Indonesia can be relied upon. In fact, there are two keys to the transformation of China-Indonesia relations, one is that suharto, who was anti-China, was ousted from power, and later came up as a descendant of Sukarno, Megawati, who is friendly to China, and now no one in Indonesia dares to ignore the mainland.
Another key point is that the reason why Indonesia had such a strong anti-China voice at that time was mainly because Taiwan instigated anti-communism on the one hand, and on the other hand, provided weapons, equipment and personnel to the Indonesian anti-government rebels, which was the Taiwan side that intensified and amplified the contradictions between the local people and the Chinese. In the final analysis, it is Still Taiwan that has committed sins.
After 1998, the proportion of local Chinese leaning toward the mainland accounted for the majority, and this key factor was also solved. And since then, within ASEAN, for a while, Vietnam's voice against China has been the loudest, and it has also competed with Indonesia for ASEAN dominance, at which time China and Indonesia have begun to move towards unity.
Moreover, Indonesia has purchased more and more Chinese weapons and equipment in recent years, and the field of national security has long begun to move closer to China. This time is equivalent to Morrison sent another big gift, we can just ask Indonesia, those new weapons and equipment at the Zhuhai Air Show, is there any heartbeat?
Therefore, Australia may offend the whole of ASEAN this time. Pushing Indonesia to China, I am afraid that not only Morrison, Biden and Johnson have not calculated in advance.