RCEP, the world’s biggest trade agreement

Re:RCEP, the world’s biggest trade agreement by disown on Monday November 16, 2020 @12:34AM (#25108426)

Australia has never been and will never be a sovereign nation. It used to be part of the british empire and is now part of the american led anglo-protectorate. They are part of the anglo world and I can't ever see us letting them leave.

Sovereign nations don't have foreign occupation forces. Japan and SK are occupied client/vassal/satellite states. We can call them allies if we want to save face, but if china or russia had occupation forces there, we'd call them vassals or satellites or client. Ultimately that's what they are.

We'd never call warsaw-pact nations sovereign states, wonder why we call japan or sk sovereign states?

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Re:RCEP, the world’s biggest trade agreement by aussieguy1234 on Monday November 16, 2020 @07:00AM (#25110645)

Let's go back before the British arrived. There were many (and still are) many sovereign indigenous nations in what's now known as Australia

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Re:RCEP, the world’s biggest trade agreement by disown on Monday November 16, 2020 @12:06PM (#25114080)

> There were many (and still are) many sovereign indigenous nations in what's now known as Australia

There are no sovereign indigenous nations in australia. You will not find them as members in the UN, you will not find them on maps, they cannot form any sovereign treaties with other nations, etc.

The idea of "sovereign indigenous nations" is just virtue signaling. Maybe one day they will be free and sovereign nations, but I seriously doubt it.

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