Great Britain is not an Island

[CountArach]

Ausrailia may try to become part of Asia but it never will be seen as that by the other members of that region.

Never is a long time - we have just come out of 12 years of a Government which made every effort to have us portrayed as the bad guy of the region. We have now elected a Government which is much more pro-Asia (The Prime Minister even speaks fluent Mandarin).

Economically it will trade with Asia but culturally it will never be Asian and when one is trying to carve a place in an pan Asian community that element of non aisianess will be an problem.

See Pape's post.

In effect the other asian countries will see oz as western they will feel ok trading with oz but not much more than that.

How can you be certain? We haven't tried anything else.