This is another reason why you can’t trust the Liberal Party. Their current Federal President and former Prime Minister has written an article asking if Australia is ready for a war with China over Taiwan. What goes on between China and Taiwan has nothing to do with Australia and even if it did what exactly does Abbot think Australia could possibly do about it? Apart from a short stint where it was ruled by the Japanese, Taiwan was ruled by the Qing dynasty for over two hundred years. The majority of Taiwans population are Han Chinese who are descendants of the Chinese who fled China after its Civil War in the 1940’s. Taiwan is closer to China than Tasmania is to mainland Australia. Clearly no one wants to see war break out but rather a peaceful resolution to tensions. The only thing Australia can do is call for peaceful discussions between them. Abbot has form in this area as being a reckless warmonger. Last year he was calling for Australian peacekeeping forces to be sent to Ukraine. He is also still defending the Iraq War. Seriously this guy needs to be gagged. He’s an embarrassment to Australia and his belligerent rhetoric a threat to national security. Our children shouldn’t be sent to a meat grinder to satisfy the perverted ideological fantasies of neo-conservatives. Australia needs to stay out of foreign wars and focus on building our own defences here in Australia, including nation building Infrastructure and a manufacturing industry capable of supplying armaments etc in the unfortunate event we were to ever end up in a war. We can’t even finish off the Snowy Hydro 2 or inland rail projects. The idea we should waste billions and our destroy our trade industry with China is pure madness. And I should add One Nation is no better in this regard. Pauline Hanson congratulating Netanyahu and Trump for starting a war with Iran and then supporting our Navy ships getting involved also shows that she is nothing more than a globalist puppet who doesn’t have the guts to stand up to the military industrial complex either. It’s time to put Australia First and Foreign Wars last. Sign up to Peoplefirstparty.au for peace and prosperity. ••••••••••••••• “Is Australia ready for the war over Taiwan that Kevin Rudd has said has a one-in-three chance of happening within three years? The invasion that would almost certainly mean that all our exports to China stop, that all our imports from China stop, that our export income and our fuel supplies almost immediately dry up, and—quite possibly—that there are missile strikes on Australia itself against which we currently have almost no air defences whatsoever.”