Posted on 03/16/2025 8:44:05 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
For nearly a month, Australian forces were on alert as a flotilla of Chinese navy ships made an unannounced voyage around the continent. The ships sailed in and out of Australia’s exclusive economic zone. They fired live shots near commercial airspace, forcing dozens of civilian flights to reroute. They sailed past Perth in Western Australia, days after a visiting U.S. nuclear submarine docked at a nearby naval base.
Finally, last weekend, the Chinese ships headed north toward Indonesia.
Australian officials repeatedly assured the public that the Chinese ships’ presence and actions were perfectly legitimate under international law. But the voyage was the farthest south the Chinese military had ever come, and was deeply uncomfortable for Australia.
It has forced the nation to take a hard look at its own aging fleet, its heavy military dependence on a faraway ally, the United States, and the increasing muscularity of its biggest trading partner, China.
There was nothing about the deployment of the three Chinese vessels — a cruiser, a frigate and a replenishment tanker — that was technically impressive or strategically significant. China’s formidable navy has long demonstrated the vast distances it can cover and the capabilities of its premier ships.
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Chinese warships re-enter Australia's exclusive maritime zone, operating east of Tasmania
And you can’t prevent them from coming back.
Another breathless alarm about China, from people who love profit making with China at the expense of their own people. Just like DC…
And like DC, the answer is always more weapons and more domestic surveillance.
Did they have nets behind them?
Lack political will won’t win wars.
The article certainly brags about modern Chinese ships doing what Europeans did in the age of sail 250 years ago.
The Australians need to fix their totalitarian government problem if they want America to think they are worth defending.
Chinese scholars are baffled that somehow the huge treasure house of nearly vacant Australia lay at its feet and was never found and colonized even in the era of the treasure ships. If the US covets Greenland, the Chinese are obsessed with Australia. They loathe that it is now populated and governed by Europeans.
Since they are a bunch of social control freaks down there, I suggest they learn a smattering of conversational mandarin.
Although I am predisposed to buy such racist predilections among the Chinese, I would like to see contextual citation to clear indications of such in the specific case of Australia.
We have spent so much on wars and never enough on preparing for war. The CCP has a superior navy, making ours seem more like an overstretched flotilla.
We should not in this era make enemies of our Asian allies - Japan, South Korea and The Philippines. They will be at the front line of any war China starts, and we still have 53,000 troops on Okinawa.
I dont get chinas interest id the land down under... whats the attraction? do the aussies have a natural resource??
Australia’s top two sources of income, minerals and students, are both from China. If China decided to take the minerals who would stop them? Europe, the US, an unarmed populace?
Do they have more trannies? They need more trannies, immigrants and homosexuals- because we all know diversity is strength
How many Chinese people live in Australia?
Communists and Socialists - both on the Left.
Australia feels “near naked” because it has not invested a sufficient amount in its Navy and alliances. China’s exercise is just a symptom. You can only live in fantasyland for so long before reality kicks in.
I’m sure there are more than a few submarines shadowing them
“Australia is expanding its northern military bases, with U.S. support, to counter China’s growing threat. Critics quip it’s become the “51st state.””
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/08/24/us-military-base-australia-china/
August 24, 2024
“Deep in the outback, a flurry of construction by Australia and the United States is transforming this once quiet military installation into a potential launchpad in case of conflict with China.
Runways are being expanded and strengthened to accommodate the allies’ biggest airplanes, including American B-52 bombers. A pair of massive fuel depots is rising side by side to supply U.S. and Australian fighter jets. And two earth-covered bunkers have been built for U.S. munitions.”
“Near Naked” is right! Have you seen the Sheilas on the beaches down there? I’ve seen more cotten in an Asprin bottle!
Gives cottontails a new meaning.
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