In an editorial on Feb. 22, titled “Fighting digital goliaths”, The Jakarta Post wrote that Indonesia could learn from Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who had opted for a confrontational approach in dealing with economic superpower China and two United States tech behemoths for the sake of national interest. ”Hopefully, there will be win-win solutions to the disputes,” the editorial says, meaning all are the winners of the war. The level of satisfaction is definitely different, but for sure, no one has suffered a fatal loss in the war. Morrison now has a legitimate reason to claim a victory in his (first) war against the American goliaths. The next war — against China — is much more complicated with deadlier consequences for Australia and for Morrison in person than in the first war. No leader has dared to declare an open conf...