India and Australia
It occurs to me that Australia and India are natural partners.
Culturally, what we share as countries is:
An English heritage
Language, although Indians actually use it properly while Australians treat it like an op-shop item you can cut up and wear sideways.
An inherent love of hypocrisy. India perfected it at scale, Australia perfected it through laziness. Different routes, same destination.
A belief that governments should solve every problem and a fundamental disbelief that governments can ever do anything well. Both countries have this cognitive dissonance nailed, like sports fans who hate their own team but never miss a game.
Cricket, the biggie.
Arguably both countries love Indian food
A fundamental belief in politeness to strangers, although neither country follows through quite as consistently as it likes to think.
Both countries are still running on Victorian-era bureaucracy held together with duct tape and optimism, and both pretend they aren’t.
It makes so much more sense than Australia working with China. China unfortunately wants to make up for years of being bullied, by being bullies. That doesn’t suit the Australian mentality and the Chinese will never understand why.
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