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Re:China hacked Norway's Visma to steal client secrets by Sabinus on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @06:53PM (#19101478)
Afraid of losing a large market. It's the same with Australia. OECD countries need to band together to respond to countries abusing global trade.
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Re:China hacked Norway's Visma to steal client secrets by Gustomaximus on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @07:50PM (#19101899)
EU is large enough they could do this alone. Or team up with US and really have some firepower.

Things like this is the point of the EU, not creating swaths of regulations about how much or little banannas can be bent.

A place like Australia (alone) could never stand up to China. They would be too willing to make an example of a small country that crosses them. China trade comes with huge amounts of political pride and convenience. Even if Australia joined forces with a larger block we risk being g made an example of like that general saying he would sink an Australian ship to send a message to the US.

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Re:China hacked Norway's Visma to steal client secrets by rbg246 on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @08:54PM (#19102225)
Australia is part of ANZUS, which means if China attacked Australia, the US would be obligated to intervene

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANZUS

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Re:China hacked Norway's Visma to steal client secrets by Gustomaximus on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @09:45PM (#19102506)
Obliged by ANZUS, but would they really?

I feel in the past countries would stick to their commitment for the bigger picture. Now, not so sure. I wonder if they would weigh pros and cons and decide to withdraw or not.

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Re:China hacked Norway's Visma to steal client secrets by rbg246 on Thursday February 07, 2019 @03:49AM (#19103928)
If it aligned with their national interests, yes and generally US and Australian interests do align
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Re:China hacked Norway's Visma to steal client secrets by simula67 on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @09:49PM (#19102526)
That link says that the treaty is non-binding
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Re:China hacked Norway's Visma to steal client secrets by thisgoodlife on Thursday February 07, 2019 @05:15AM (#19104229)
Trump would ask Australia to pay for the intervention.
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Re:China hacked Norway's Visma to steal client secrets by sonnyblarney on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @07:57PM (#19101935)
"OECD countries need to band together to respond to countries abusing global trade."

Funny enough this was what the WTO was supposed to be for.

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