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My head hurts :(

What neighbors and how?

You will find an interesting assessment of the FTA by Dr. John Lee (is an adjunct associate professor at the University of Sydney, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington DC, and a Director of the Kokoda Foundation defence and security think-tank in Canberra.)...

The Russians are a democracy, the Chinese are communist.

The amount of actual land they buy is infinitesimal in the scheme of things. What is more concerning is their move to lock up the entire supply chain. While everyone's bemoaning the land grab they're quietly buying up the processing plants. I don't really have a problem with the Chinese...

Your trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. Nothing broad about the definition at all. The FTA as it stands, and what we know about it so far, is simply improved access under better terms. That access has existed for some time. Even that looks like pretty slim pickings for a decades...

That's not geopolitical. Geopolitical events involve territory, spatial factors, etc. Events in the South China Sea are geopolitical. Trade agreements are not geopolitical events. Geopolitics is a method of foreign policy analysis which seeks to understand, explain, and predict international...

Fail to see how it's geopolitical...explain..

The FTA is reportedly worth $18B over 10 years... 1.8B/yr. Compare that to total exports of $600B+/yr currently. Abbott described this as a 'game changer'... What's likely to happen is that China will continue to buy up the entire supply chain or at the very least continue to acquire the...

Rudd was a muppet but he had a reasonable understanding of how things were done in China. They were starting to get somewhere as the China story unraveled. For expediency's sake Abbott has forgone all the progress built up over the last decade of negotiations.

Nothing of value but the concern is what AU gave up to get it done. Abbott was widely condemned for signalling he wanted this thing done ASAP after several years of tough negotiations by NLP and LNP governments. The TPP agreement under negotiation now is the one of more concern.