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Chinese Warships Circle Australia and Leave It Feeling ‘Near-Naked’
NYT ^ | 03 12 2025 | Victoria Kim

Posted on 03/16/2025 8:44:05 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

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Chinese warships re-enter Australia's exclusive maritime zone, operating east of Tasmania

1 posted on 03/16/2025 8:44:05 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

And you can’t prevent them from coming back.


2 posted on 03/16/2025 8:50:15 AM PDT by ComputerGuy ( )
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To: yesthatjallen

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.


3 posted on 03/16/2025 8:50:49 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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To: yesthatjallen

Did they have nets behind them?


4 posted on 03/16/2025 8:52:20 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: ComputerGuy

Lack political will won’t win wars.


5 posted on 03/16/2025 8:52:57 AM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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To: yesthatjallen

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.


6 posted on 03/16/2025 8:53:16 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( )
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To: yesthatjallen

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.


7 posted on 03/16/2025 8:53:28 AM PDT by allendale
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To: yesthatjallen

Since they are a bunch of social control freaks down there, I suggest they learn a smattering of conversational mandarin.


8 posted on 03/16/2025 9:00:43 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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...the Chinese are obsessed with Australia. They loathe that it is now populated and governed by Europeans.

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.

9 posted on 03/16/2025 9:06:47 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: yesthatjallen

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.


10 posted on 03/16/2025 9:07:51 AM PDT by Wuli (qq)
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To: yesthatjallen

I dont get chinas interest id the land down under... whats the attraction? do the aussies have a natural resource??


11 posted on 03/16/2025 9:09:06 AM PDT by sit-rep
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To: allendale

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?


12 posted on 03/16/2025 9:11:59 AM PDT by georgia peach (georgia peach)
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To: yesthatjallen

Do they have more trannies? They need more trannies, immigrants and homosexuals- because we all know diversity is strength


13 posted on 03/16/2025 9:14:26 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: All

How many Chinese people live in Australia?


14 posted on 03/16/2025 9:15:05 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Communists and Socialists - both on the Left.


15 posted on 03/16/2025 9:15:13 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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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.


16 posted on 03/16/2025 9:15:43 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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I’m sure there are more than a few submarines shadowing them


17 posted on 03/16/2025 9:20:55 AM PDT by Rural_Michigan
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“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.”


18 posted on 03/16/2025 9:27:45 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

“Near Naked” is right! Have you seen the Sheilas on the beaches down there? I’ve seen more cotten in an Asprin bottle!


19 posted on 03/16/2025 9:29:09 AM PDT by Torahman (Remember the Maccabees )
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To: Torahman

Gives cottontails a new meaning.


20 posted on 03/16/2025 9:31:53 AM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce.)
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