To: sinsofsolarempirefan; SeekAndFind; Vaquero
It isn't going to happen. Australia and to a lesser extent New Zealand see themselves as more part of Asia than anything and the UK provides an increasingly smaller share of their trade
- For Australia the UK trade of 2% is dwarved by China's 29% and even india at 4.4% is larger: each import countrys percentage of total Australian exports.
- China: US$68 billion (29.6% of total Australian exports)
- Japan: $23.6 billion (10.3%)
- South Korea: $12.5 billion (5.5%)
- India: $10.2 billion (4.4%)
- Hong Kong: $9.1 billion (4%)
- United States: $8.6 billion (3.8%)
- New Zealand: $6.9 billion (3%)
- Taiwan: $6.2 billion (2.7%)
- Indonesia: $4.9 billion (2.1%)
- United Kingdom: $4.6 billion (2%)
- Singapore: $3.6 billion (1.6%)
- Vietnam: $3.5 billion (1.5%)
- Malaysia: $3.5 billion (1.5%)
- Thailand: $3.1 billion (1.3%)
- Netherlands: $1.8 billion (0.8%)
- As for New Zealand it ranks higher but still swarved by China
11 posted on
03/13/2018 6:38:44 AM PDT by
Cronos
(Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
To: Cronos
I think the whole purpose behind the bloc is that it wants to foster a renewed sense of community between the countries, something that’s been lost since WWII!
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