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Shock as flotilla of three Chinese warships arrive for 'secret' visit to Sydney - just days after
Daily Mail ^ | Published: 21:33 EDT, 2 June 2019 | Updated: 07:37 EDT, 3 June 2019 | Kylie Stevens For Daily Mail Australia and Danyal Hussain For Mailonline

Posted on 06/04/2019 2:37:56 AM PDT by Zhang Fei

Three Chinese warships with 700 sailors on board will spend the next four days docked in Sydney Harbour on an unannounced visit.

The 'secret visit' comes just days after it was revealed that a Chinese warship had confronted an Australian vessel in the South China Sea, with Australian helicopter pilots targeted with lasers.

Footage emerged of the warships' arrival into Sydney on Monday morning with sailors lined up on the ships in combat uniform, with some carrying guns.

The appearance of the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLA- N) frigate, an auxiliary replenishment ship, and an amphibious vessel docked at Garden Island, comes amid heightened concern about Beijing's growing clout and military muscle flexing.

Since coming to power, President Xi Jinping has invested heavily in the People's Liberation Army Navy - in a bid to project Chinese influence across the Pacific and beyond.

Tensions have been high in the South China Sea, a major global shipping thoroughfare and a major source of untapped oil and gas reserves, which China claims almost all of.

It has in the past hit out at the US and its allies over naval operations in the area and has been turning reefs and islets into islands, installing military facilities on them.

The ships have since docked at the Royal Australian Navy base in Potts Point in a visit that was recently approved by the federal government.

Curious members of the public later boarded the vessels for a closer inspection.

A Department of Defence spokeswoman told Daily Mail Australia the routine port visit was one of many port visits to Australia by foreign military vessels facilitated each year.

'This PLA-N visit is part of an extended deployment for the PLA-N Task Force which recently completed anti-piracy operations in the Gulf of Aden,' the spokeswoman said.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: australia; china; maga; maritime; redchina; trump
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To: Zhang Fei
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21 posted on 06/04/2019 4:24:18 AM PDT by Mark17 (With Jesus, there is more wealth in my soul, than acres of diamonds and mountains of gold.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

“The biggest mistake that the world’s industrialized nations made in the 80s and 90s was to open their ports to Chinese made goods.”

Remember, Hillary was on the Board of Directors of Walmart for many years prior to Walmart funding Bill’s presidential primary run.

And Charlie Trie and the 30 Chinese Nationals who donated big time to Bill’s reelection and were never prosecuted!


22 posted on 06/04/2019 4:25:38 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: tired&retired

It went (way) beyond Clinton.

Trump is the FIRST AMERICAN leader, the first one, ever, to be for America. In my humble opinion.

For thirty years, everyone has been selling us out, as fast as they possibly can.

Everyone.


23 posted on 06/04/2019 4:31:43 AM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: cba123
Don’t know your point in that post.

Namely that there has always been an uneasy, sometimes even violent anti-Chinese sentiment, based on the Chinese undercutting of American prices, and other "dirty tricks," as expressed in the poem.

24 posted on 06/04/2019 4:35:13 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

Chinese can be exactly the same.

Maybe even more unified.


25 posted on 06/04/2019 4:38:02 AM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: rbg81

“...most of those ChiCom’s $$$ are “invested” by buying up Californication houses (thousands and thousands of all-cash purchases)”

Have the Chinese not heard of the fault line? Or is this a toehold?


26 posted on 06/04/2019 4:38:34 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: Clutch Martin; rbg81
“...most of those ChiCom’s $$$ are “invested” by buying up Californication houses (thousands and thousands of all-cash purchases)”
Have the Chinese not heard of the fault line? Or is this a toehold?

The Japanese made that same mistake back in the 80s.

27 posted on 06/04/2019 4:45:10 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: Zhang Fei

What in the hell are the Aussies drinking?


28 posted on 06/04/2019 4:47:39 AM PDT by kenmcg (tHE WHOLE)
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To: Zhang Fei

If one of these were sunk it may be another sinking of the U.S.S.Maine in Havana harbour.
Good times.


29 posted on 06/04/2019 4:59:10 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ( Molon Labe' baby, Molon Labe)
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To: Zhang Fei
...and has been turning reefs and islets into islands, installing military facilities on them.

Uh-oh, better send Greenpeace there to intervene. All of them.

30 posted on 06/04/2019 5:23:49 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: Moltke

I thought the Japanese were the sneaky ones. Loral and the Clintons were always out there waiting to profit. Now the Germans are buying Russian gas.


31 posted on 06/04/2019 5:45:18 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: CondorFlight
"our debt payments to China pay for the entire Chinese military budget."

The grim reality.
32 posted on 06/04/2019 5:51:09 AM PDT by indthkr
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To: Zhang Fei

History is repeating itself.

More and more the China of today seems like the Japan of the 1930’s.

It’s eery.

We have been down this path before.


33 posted on 06/04/2019 5:51:50 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: Gay State Conservative

Who approved “Most Favored Nation” treatment for China ?
I think it was a guy who loved cigars...


34 posted on 06/04/2019 5:59:23 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: ifinnegan

Australian civilians may wish they had all those “evil” semi-auto A-s-s-ault rifles back in their hands soon.

NZ next?


35 posted on 06/04/2019 6:43:07 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Three days in FB prison for this...'What was "IT"? A DNA XX or a DNA XY?')
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To: Zhang Fei
Well soon China won't have the money to sail the high seas as Trump is doing to them what Reagan did to Russia. If the Chicoms are using their own steel in those warships they won't be afloat very long. 😆
36 posted on 06/04/2019 7:07:04 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: rbg81

Not sure. They do like cheap labor tho


37 posted on 06/04/2019 7:31:53 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: ifinnegan

Howard and Downer accurately described what the ANZUS Treaty says - it only takes effect if there is an attack on the metropolitan territory or in the Pacific on one of the partners.

It doesn’t apply in any other circumstance.

That is why the only time it has been invoked was after September 11 because in that case there was an attack on the metropolitan territory of the United States.

But that does not mean Australia would not to the aid of the US as an ally in the case of war with China.

ANZUS did not apply in Vietnam, or in the Gulf War of 1991, or in the Iraq War of 2003. Australia still provided support to the US as an ally in all those cases.

ANZUS does not define the entire alliance between Australia and the US - it exists to deal with one specific circumstance - an attack on the partners.


38 posted on 06/04/2019 7:32:32 AM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: naturalman1975

Nonsense.

It was latter weaseling due to ChiCom influence, attempts to placate the communist regime.


39 posted on 06/04/2019 7:41:06 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: naturalman1975

Have you read Silent Invasion yet?


40 posted on 06/04/2019 7:42:06 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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