Monitoring the Impact of Trump on the World

[Super Nova]

Thread to capture Trump's impact of World Politics

[Super Nova]

Let's piss China off before we get in the office. Then tweet about it.

'Utterly unnecessary': Donald Trump slammed for provoking tensions with China"

A diplomatically explosive phone call between president-elect Donald Trump and the president of Taiwan risks provoking a cold war between the United States and China with potentially catastrophic economic and security implications for the region and the world, according to former Australian foreign minister Bob Carr.

The phone call is thought to be the first official direct communication between an American president or president-elect and a Taiwanese leader since the US and China opened diplomatic relations in 1979.

According to a Taiwanese statement, Mr Trump and President Tsai Ing-wen discussed ways to "strengthen [Taiwanese] national defense, allowing the people better lives and a guarantee of security. The two briefly exchanged opinions on the situation in the Asia region".
Beijing regards Taiwan as a renegade province with which it will eventually absorb. This stance has formed the basis for modern western diplomatic relations with China.

Mr Carr, currently the director of the Australia-China Relations Institute at the University of Technology, told Fairfax Media that to unravel this arrangement "would be to tragically inaugurate a cold war between the US and China".

http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/utt ... spartandhp

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do you think he has enough political background to be confronting the CHinese at this stage?

lets face it he isnt known for DIPLOMACY which I would imagine is part and parcel
when dealing with them...there are tensions with CHina lets say he needs to be very careful.

[mantra]

Trump's new defence secretary isn't called "mad dog" for nothing. I can see China already prepping their army. Australia will be piggy in the middle because we've been stupid enough to give China a 99 year lease to Darwin Port - which is America's main access to their Darwin military base. We can look forward to fun and games, but not for our young soldiers.

“I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.”

― George S. McGovern

[IQS.RLOW]

Lefty media has a cry about Trump accepting a call from a democratic elected leader.

Big fucking deal

[skippy]

DONALD Trump’s impending presidency is hitting Australians where it hurts most: interest rates.
First home buyers can expect a tougher, more expensive mortgage market courtesy of the property-developer-cum-leader-of-the-free-world, economists say.
And it’s already begun, with Westpac, St George, Bank of Melbourne, BankSA, Rams, ME and Ubank hiking mortgage interest rates by up to 60 basis points on Monday, and the other major banks expected to follow.

Interst rates in Australia already going up as a result of Trump. Although its hard to believe from such a lefty rag as News.com.
http://www.news.com.au/finance/business ... 8587d076a8

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DONALD Trump’s impending presidency is hitting Australians where it hurts most: interest rates.
First home buyers can expect a tougher, more expensive mortgage market courtesy of the property-developer-cum-leader-of-the-free-world, economists say.
And it’s already begun, with Westpac, St George, Bank of Melbourne, BankSA, Rams, ME and Ubank hiking mortgage interest rates by up to 60 basis points on Monday, and the other major banks expected to follow.

Interst rates in Australia already going up as a result of Trump. Although its hard to believe from such a lefty rag as News.com.
http://www.news.com.au/finance/business ... 8587d076a8

wellaall this while they have been coming down... we didnt blame anyone for that.... strange.

how ever the low interest rates are also being blamed for the sky high prices in Sydney in particular.. every man and his dog are after a piece of Sydney

seems to me the lower the rates the more people are inclined to borrow...and there is a need to pare them back!

I wouldnt be giving trump the credit.. ooops...I would like to think we could work that out for ourselves.

I dont feel sorry for first home buyers at all..

we went without to raise our first home deposit.without one cent of govt help..and we werent allowed to borrrow 100% like they can today...

I think our struggles were harder to be honest...dont get me started on paid maternity leave.

[Black Orchid]

Interest rates need to go up and then housing prices may stop climbing so rapidly, especially in Sydney. After all it is unfettered Chinese investment that has caused the ridiculously inflated Sydney market to begin with. They are not allowed to buy property, demolish it and rebuild but that is happening everywhere anyway. $2.8 Million for a 2 bedroom dump of a duplex which will be pulled down against Council stipulations . They don't care. They will just pay the fine.

Handing over Darwin Port has to be one of our most stupid moves to date and I will never understand why lefties want us bowing and scraping to communist China.

[Black Orchid]

I dont feel sorry for first home buyers at all..

we went without to raise our first home deposit.without one cent of govt help..and we werent allowed to borrrow 100% like they can today...

I think our struggles were harder to be honest...dont get me started on paid maternity leave.

Back then the median house price was around three times the median income. Now the median house price is 300% more but wages have certainly not caught up.

New home owners pay a much higher percentage of their income on house payments than they should and renters are paying increased rental costs reflective of the higher capital and financing costs in turn paid by landlords.

As for Government help, it's a few thousand dollars IF you are eligible against the cost of a property priced at over $1 Million.

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I dont feel sorry for first home buyers at all..

we went without to raise our first home deposit.without one cent of govt help..and we werent allowed to borrrow 100% like they can today...

I think our struggles were harder to be honest...dont get me started on paid maternity leave.

Back then the median house price was around three times the median income. Now the median house price is 300% more but wages have certainly not caught up.

New home owners pay a much higher percentage of their income on house payments than they should and renters are paying increased rental costs reflective of the higher capital and financing costs in turn paid by landlords.

As for Government help, it's a few thousand dollars IF you are eligible against the cost of a property priced at over $1 Million.

they are still getting more than I got...and still they complain they want more..

...we didnt look for a house in the middle of the CBD like they want today...we managed to get something with the bare essentials..no carpet light fitting or curtains..lucky to have door nobs....I read once where a couple with one child were upset because they couldnt afford the 5 bedroom house they had bought..in the posh neighbourhood of course...its got easier and easier yet the problems do not go away..sorry BO but to me they get married... big wedding and the next day want to move into their own home...I was married 12 years before that happened then we waited another 3 with sheets up at the windows...I cant see this generation doing that...... and we didnt have credit cards...

what more can be done for this generation do you think?...