Posted on 12/16/2015 12:20:53 PM PST by naturalman1975
A Chinese state-owned newspaper has sent a thinly veiled threat to Australia after an RAAF plane was detected patrolling above the South China Sea.
The ominous Global Times editorial appeared to warn Australia its planes could be shot down if they continue their surveillance flights of the region, reports ABC.
The article comes after the pilot of an RAAF P-3 Orion aircraft patrolling above the area was detected telling the Chinese navy via radio communications they were 'exercising international freedom of navigation rights.'
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Australia's response to Chinese statement - next month, we're sending a Royal Australian Navy frigate to exercise right of passage through the same area.
Watch for China to make a move to take over Taiwan before Odumbass is out of office
ESPECIALLY if it looks like Trump will win.
Another instance of D’Souza’s observation of socialist governments being almost indistinguishable from organized crime.
I just woke up a bit ago, had a dream of a large plane with both engines on fire.
It would be a shame if a Sub was detected of the Australian coast, then never heard from again and it happened to be Chinese.
They let a front group for the PLA lease the Port of Darwin for 99 years, and this is the thanks they get.
China’s move against Taiwan would be painful, especially if they’re coastal cities were now a combat zone ... it would shut-down China’s export economy ...
And this country probably produces the single largest share of consumer goods here from sea to shining sea.
You mean we could re-open factories in America, hiring Americans?
Sounds like a very good plan.
Also pretty hard to hide. They don’t have the amphibious capabilities. They’d have to pull some Red Dawn kind of air assault, combined with missile and air strikes. The movement/preparation would have to be fairly large and obvious.
And wouldn’t it be a shame if one of China’s shiny new ships ended up at the bottom of the ocean...
If China shoots-down an RAAF plane — nothing will happen. Australia will scream a bit, but that will be it.
We financed China’s modernization almost single handed.
Man are we going to pay a dear price.
If some misfortune just happens to befall an Australian aircraft then it would not surprise me if China’s aircraft carrier were to become their newest submarine.
I was initially thinking the same thing, but the Baltic Dry Index hit a record low. This tracks shipping and doesn't bode well for China exports. China's leadership may have real problems internally if their economy is tanking.
So the real question is what does their growing military want to do about Taiwan. When the people are mad you better have the military on your side.
These filthy Chinks need a smack down.
As for Obama...the Chinese know everything there is to know about him and his mentor,Bill Ayers.They have no fear of him.
I've visited China several times...the first time in 1980,the most recent two years ago.On my first visit to Guangzhou I saw drab,Soviet style buildings and a rush hour featuring a few government limos,a few buses and 750,000 bicycles.Two years ago I saw huge glass and steel skyscrapers and bumper-to-bumper traffic jams.
The biggest mistake the industrialized,advanced nations made in the 80's/90's/00's was to open their ports to Chinese made junk.A backward nation like China shouldn't have been allowed to become an economic powerhouse.The civilized world is now seeing the consequences of that error...both in the South China Sea and elsewhere.
Australia's a country of 30 million.China's a nation of 1,200 million.Any chance that *that's* why Australia would do no more than scream?
Not to put too fine a point on it - but a lot of what Australia would do would depend on whether or not we could rely on the United States to honour a treaty that has been in place for over sixty years - and which Australia honoured on 12th September 2001.
Each Party recognizes that an armed attack in the Pacific Area on any of the Parties would be dangerous to its own peace and safety and declares that it would act to meet the common danger in accordance with its constitutional processes.
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For the purpose of Article IV, an armed attack on any of the Parties is deemed to include an armed attack on the metropolitan territory of any of the Parties, or on the island territories under its jurisdiction in the Pacific or on its armed forces, public vessels or aircraft in the Pacific.
Australia can't win a war against China. And I don't think anybody would be likely to go to war over a single aircraft being shot down anyway (see the situation involving Russia and Turkey). But our aircraft are flying over the South China Sea, largely because we're supporting US actions there in asserting freedom of movement. There's a certain expectation of support in return if it comes down to it.
My gut tells me that you know that Obama has almost as much contempt for Australia as he has for Britain.Despite claims to the contrary he *did* return to the British ambassador a bust of Churchill that had been in the Oval Office for decades.And I'll bet that you at least *suspect* that Hillary has a similar contempt for Australia.
That contempt is easily explained.John F Kennedy,in one of his most famous speeches (which is easily found on youtube) declared that under his Presidency the US would "support *any* friend,oppose *any* foe".But our democrat Party has changed since then.The JFKs of that party were long ago purged by the Bill Ayers wing...a wing born as the result of the teachings of one Saul Alinsky.
In short,sadly,given that about 50% of our electorate supports today's democrat Party about the most that Australia can expect from us if one of their aircraft is shot down by the Chinese is a strongly worded letter to the Chinese Under Assistant Cultural Attache from our Deputy Assistant Whatever.
And FYI...most *Americans* don't have the first clue who Bill Ayers and Saul Alinsky are so it would be understandable if *you* didn't.If you have some free time google them.It'll make your blood boil.
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