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Posted August 06, 2014 09:40 · last edited August 06, 2014 09:41

This is off topic but Australia and other Asian SE nations would probably prefer to split from Middle East to create and East and West Asia.  The current confederation doesn't really work because it covers too big an area and there is constant fighting between the traditional Korean and Japanese power houses and the new money in the Gulf over who controls the confederation.    

If that happened it would make sense geographically to combine East Asia and OFC. The issue is that the East Asians have no interest, and there is no benefit, to taking on OFC which contributes nothing other than costs (putting it harshly).  Plus there is no real road map to splitting the confederation in this way.  The West Asian confederation would be very rich but would be weak on the pitch.

This comes up in the Aussie media from time to time but it's basically a bit of a pipe dream.  If Aussie, Japan, China and Korea got together they may be able to make it happen.  But there's no real impetus to split that way as yet.  Mike Cockerill writes about it, you can look it up in the SMH archive.

Personally I think there is 0% chance of OFC and AFC merging as they currently work.  Way too big an area and nothing to be gained for AFC other than an additional half spot.

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james dean edited August 06, 2014 09:41

This is off topic but Australia and other Asian SE nations would probably prefer to split from Middle East to create and East and West Asia.  The current confederation doesn't really work because it covers too big an area and there is constant fighting between the traditional Korean and Japanese power houses and the new money in the Gulf over who controls the confederation.    

If that happened it would make sense geographically to combine East Asia and OFC. The issue is that the East Asians have no interest, and there is no benefit, to taking on OFC which contributes nothing other than costs (putting it harshly).  Plus there is no real road map to splitting the confederation in this way.  The West Asian confederation would be very rich but would be weak on the pitch.

This comes up in the Aussie media from time to time but it's basically a bit of a pipe dream.  If Aussie, Japan, China and Korea got together they may be able to make it happen.  But there's no real impetus to split that way as yet.  Mike Cockerill writes about it, you can look it up in the SMH archive