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.
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Any ship’s captain in the U.S. Navy would have been relieved of command if his vessel got rust like that ChiCom barge in the photo.
But yes, the Aussies should notify Beijing that Chinese military ships in their ports is a bit much and that unless it’s an emergency, please stay the h*** out!
[But that does not mean Australia would not to the aid of the US as an ally in the case of war with China.]
Attempting to show strength, the Chinese show 2 things:
1. Weakness. 1 Frigate, 1 Supply ship and 1 Amphib ship.
———That is a great way to project force /sarc
———No air defense of any range and easy kills of the Chinese marines on that amphib ship.
2. China’s lack of logistic chain in its own backyard. They are beginning to put together a blue water navy but have few allies that would give them harbor in time of war.
[Nonsense.
It was latter weaseling due to ChiCom influence, attempts to placate the communist regime.]
If you let in 3 PLAN ships into your port and hour later you want to let in 3 more.
All Free Traitors™ care about is $$$$$$$$$$$.
[Attempting to show strength, the Chinese show 2 things:]
Oh, the threat is real, no doubt.
China has relegated Russia, to a mere nuisance threat imo.
The next war will be a standoff war and NavalAir war in the South China Sea.
However, I doubt they will have more than 2 carriers ready to operate effectively, by 2030. They have a lot of work to do in naval-air-sea operations and in carrier takeoff and landings during weather and night operations.
[However, I doubt they will have more than 2 carriers ready to operate effectively, by 2030. They have a lot of work to do in naval-air-sea operations and in carrier takeoff and landings during weather and night operations.]
Secret visit? I heard about this upcoming visit a few weeks ago from an Australian friend.
“Australia teeters on the brink of being a ChiCom vassal state.”
I get this nagging feeling that the ChiComs view the Australia Outback as some sort of future Asiatic lebenstraum area.
When I recently visited Sydney, I thought I was in China, it’s pretty much now an “Asian” city.
16 years ago, then PRC “president” Hu Jintao gave a speech to the Australian parliament where he claimed Australia as Chinese territory.
“Back in the 1420s, the expeditionary fleets of China’s Ming Dynasty reached Australian shores.
For centuries, the Chinese sailed across vast seas and settled down in what they called Southern Land, or today’s Australia.”
That’s the exact same reasoning they used to claim Tibet, Xinjiang, all the South China seas etc...
[16 years ago, then PRC “president” Hu Jintao gave a speech to the Australian parliament where he claimed Australia as Chinese territory.
“Back in the 1420s, the expeditionary fleets of China’s Ming Dynasty reached Australian shores.
For centuries, the Chinese sailed across vast seas and settled down in what they called Southern Land, or today’s Australia.”
That’s the exact same reasoning they used to claim Tibet, Xinjiang, all the South China seas etc...]
Fool. The question very soon will be if the US should save Australia from the Chinese. Why would China fight the US, when the land and resources they need is wide open to the south.
Yeah well, that story is repeated no doubt on millions of planets in this Galaxy. It is even repeated in numerous civilizations on this planet. The Chinese stand no chance. They are no doubt, newborns.
Some day, as ChiCom landing craft are hitting the beaches around Darwin, many Australians are going to realize that giving up most of their guns was a very bad idea.
天下
Zhang Yimou went from To Live to full on ChiCom propagandist.
[Some day, as ChiCom landing craft are hitting the beaches around Darwin, many Australians are going to realize that giving up most of their guns was a very bad idea.]
Genghis Khan, probably the greatest conquerer ever, never had a problem with guerilla warfare, even though the lands he conquered included Afghanistan. Why? Because his army simply slaughter all civilians, including their babies, who dare to fight against them.
In the Vietnam war, the Americans struggled against the Vietcongs. When China fought Vietnam, China simply romped through North Vietnam (north of Hanoi), transport removable factories/infrastructure back to China while destroying those that they cannot bring back. One crack Vietnamese division that was rushed back from Cambodia wisely decided to settle into prepared defensive positions near Hanoi instead of reinforcing the surrounded troops north of Hanoi. Why didn’t China has problem with Vietcong guerilla fighters?
When I first visited China in the 1990s, a retired veteran bitterly told me that his Major was killed by a ~6 year old Vietnamese kid holding a secret pistol when he was giving out food to the kid. Apparently, this is not an isolated incident. Very soon, they enacted Genghis Khan’s strategy. North Vietnamese villagers encountered were simply labeled as “civilian militia”, treated as combatants and showed no mercy. PLA never encounter anymore guerilla problems because there were no civilians left to provide the guerilla with information, shelter and food!
In the 1980s, there is no internet and no international reporter who has access to report on this. Chinese body counts, which included “civilian militia combatants”, concluded that enemy casualties were in excess of 10 times PLA losses.]
Lot of rust on em.
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