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I've had some of these in my survivalist stores since 911.
Posted on 05/29/2021 5:30:43 AM PDT by blam
Following now completed joint war games held by the US, Japan, France and Australia in the East China Sea off the southwest coast of Japan earlier this month, China has lashed out particularly at its large regional neighbor Australia, calling its military “weak” and “insignificant” at a moment the two are locked in a severe trade and diplomatic tit-for-tat dispute.
Beijing voiced specific threats and warnings via its state-run English language mouthpiece Global Times, which recently wrote, “Australia’s military is too weak to be a worthy opponent of China, and if it dares to interfere in a military conflict for example in the Taiwan Straits, its forces will be among the first to be hit.”
“Australia must not think it can hide from China if it provokes,” the report continued with its threats. “Australia is within range of China’s conventional warhead-equipped DF-26 intermediate-range ballistic missile.”
Exercise Jeanne d’Arc 21 – or ARC21, as the Western alliance called it, also featured rare amphibious assault landing drills, which is seen as aimed at challenging China’s expansive claims over regional island-chains and contested reef areas on which it’s built up military installations.
Here’s more from the GT column’s response…
The ongoing joint exercises by Japanese, US, French and Australian troops, claimed to “serve as a deterrent to China,” is only symbolic and of little military significance, as the drill was put together by participants that have different agenda or are too weak, experts said on Wednesday, while slamming Japan’s outdated mindset of rallying alliances for confrontation.
The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) doesn’t even need to make pointed responses to the joint drill since it’s insignificant militarily.
Japan was also focus of China’s media attacks over the exercise as it was warned not to let its historic “militarism come back to life”.
Sobering assessment by @MOFA_Taiwan foreign minister that China is “preparing for war.” To be clear though, Beijing has never stopped preparing for war since 1949. Recent surge in military activities & possibility of domestic upheaval causes for concern. https://t.co/RvUXxSHm6s
— Russell Hsiao (@lcrhsiao) May 26, 2021
Also at a sensitive moment its hosting the summer Olympics is in question, the article called for Tokyo not to get distracted from the more pressing pandemic and health crisis in its midst:
Despite its severe domestic COVID-19 situation, Japan remains stubborn in hooking in “like-minded” countries for joint military exercises, which is an outdated Cold War mindset and will only build divisions and confrontation, Zhang Junshe, a senior research fellow at the PLA Naval Military Studies Research Institute, told the Global Times on Wednesday.
As an invading country defeated in World War II, why is Japan holding offensive exercises like this? Zhang asked. “Japan should learn from history and not let militarism come back to life.”
All of this comes as the United States also this week announced it will send its only Asia-Pacific carrier presence to Mideast waters in order to assist with the Afghanistan withdrawal this summer – a move which Republican Congressional hawks lamented as leaving the US exposed in a “priority theater”.
(snip)
Britain’s new aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth is taking part in a massive NATO exercise in the Mediterranean this week ahead of its eight-month maiden voyage to Asia designed to counter the security challenges posed by the Chinese regime.
Thanks for posting, blam.
China could overrun Australia in a few days.
They should send HMS Prince of Wales along with the larger target, for historical reasons.
Oh my, a warning like this from a country who is in the midst of a very serious demographic crisis and probably other very dire situations we still know little or none about thanks to the CCP and compliant Western media.
SecDef Austin and The Bishop continue to prepare the US Military to have sex with the PLA.
a LOT of war TALK from a slave-murdering country
that released BIOWARFARE against the rest of the planet.
Aliens2 understood. Its safer that way.
Recall, Bill Clinton's treasonous ChinaGate scandal began in late 1996...
From the Sino-Russian Joint Statement of April 23, 1997:
"The two sides [China and Russia] shall, in the spirit of partnership, strive to promote the multipolarization of the world and the establishment of a new international order."
THE HUNGRY BEAR
PART 5: Russia, China 'cooking something up'
By W Joseph Stroupe | Sept 29, 2006
https://web.archive.org/web/20170721060215/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/HI29Ag01.html
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"Joint war games are a logical outcome of the Sino-Russian Friendship and Cooperation Treaty signed in 2001, and reflect the shared worldview and growing economic ties between the two Eastern Hemisphere giants."
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In foreign policy it’s critical to “know thine enemy.” So American policymakers should be aware that Russia and China are inching closer to identifying a common enemy - the United States.
The two would-be superpowers held unprecedented joint military exercises Aug. 18-25. Soothingly named “Peace Mission 2005,” the drills took place on the Shandong peninsula on the Yellow Sea, and included nearly 10,000 troops. Russian long-range bombers, the army, navy, air force, marine, airborne and logistics units from both countries were also involved.
Moscow and Beijing claim the maneuvers were aimed at combating terrorism, extremism and separatism (the last a veiled reference to Taiwan), but it’s clear they were an attempt to counter-balance American military might. ..."
Reporting from Moscow —
Neither Russia nor China has one inch of coastline on the Mediterranean Sea, making it an unlikely and provocative venue for their first joint naval war games.
The 10 days of maneuvers that got underway Monday will include live-fire exercises in the strategic sea connecting Europe, Africa and the Middle East. The point is lost on no one: A powerful new alliance of eastern giants is flexing its muscles in the very backyard of Western Europe — much as China has done on its own in the Pacific.
The war games follow Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Moscow, where he headlined Victory Day celebrations and spent three days making billion-dollar deals with Russian President Vladimir Putin. ...”
https://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-china-russia-joint-naval-maneuvers-20150511-story.html
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The drums are already rolling for the upcoming Russian “Vostok” (east) wargames commencing on September 11. With its focal point in the Trans-Baikal region of eastern Siberia adjoining Chinese Manchuria and Mongolia, this is a nationwide Russian military and societal event.
Touted by Russian minister of defense Sergei Shoigu as “unprecedented in scale, both in terms of area of operations and numbers of military command structure, troops, and forces involved,” Russian state press is declaring that up to three hundred thousand troops and one thousand aircraft will be involved, with the majority from the Eastern and Central Military Districts.
This would be even larger than the near-legendary Zapad-81 maneuvers held in the western USSR during the depths of the Cold War. ...”
What will the UK’s public response be to such a public threat against a Commonwealth country? Australia is still protected by Her Majesty’s nuclear umbrella, right?
Are they just going to sail their new carrier around Asian waters and call it a day?
Not as easy as it appears.
I can’t see the Chinese fleet getting near without a severe mauling. Then there’s miles of deserts and wastelands.
I served in Oz with some great Aussie troops-some of the world’s toughest people. And the RAAF is deploying the Loyal Wingman program.
Moreover, an attack on Australia is an attack on the USA. There’s no threading that needle.
When a society pampers and embraces homosexuality and transgenderism like the Pink-a-Roos do, it’s no wonder that China could take them out in 24 hours.
America isn’t far behind either.
Folks here had better stop taking God’s peace & mercy for granted. We’re on borrowed time.
China and Russia being allies is nonsense. They will be at each other’s throats. They can’t trust each other.
“Moreover, an attack on Australia is an attack on the USA. There’s no threading that needle.”
With Biden and Harris and Austin leading the charge - I see a paralyzed response.
And I’ve seen a pretty decent sampling of our National Guard and Army soldiers. I can outrun most of those fatasses at 44.
The famous arrogant douchemonster ego of the Han rears its fat ugly head. Hubris leads them to disaster every time.
And these guys:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzPdncAE6BM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kev9VNGCLdc
No, China does not have the logistics capabilities to do that.
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