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'Trump is checking out of Asia': What Australia should do about it

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      Indonesia is going to have a large economy through sheer weight of numbers, if nothing else. It already has over 260,000,000 people, which is about 10 times the size of Australia. It's a member of...

      Indonesia is going to have a large economy through sheer weight of numbers, if nothing else. It already has over 260,000,000 people, which is about 10 times the size of Australia. It's a member of the G20, it has the largest economy in South-East Asia, and one of the fastest-growing economies in the area. Even if it does hit a rough spot in the near future, it still has a lot of potential for growth.

      And, for Australia's purposes, Indonesia is a good mid-sized power for us to align ourselves with, for mutual support against China.