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Originally Posted by Stuart van Onselen
AGN, are you saying that Oz does not have very close economic ties with the Asia-Pacific countries? There's more ways than just physical distance to define "part of the world".
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No, not at all - we have close economic ties with both China & Japan. However, Geonuc did not generalise 'Asia-Pacific' countries and nor did he indicate 'part of the world'; he specified China & Japan and stated that they were in 'our
region of the world' - a word that has geographical connotations.
Both China & Japan are considerably more geographically distant from Australia than the US is from most of Europe. We also have close economic links with both the UK and the US - maybe I need to consider them in our region of the world as well?
(BTW - I am teasing here, people. Don't take it seriously!)