Posted on 09/17/2021 5:16:43 PM PDT by American Number 181269513
A newspaper run by the Chinese Communist Party says that Australia is now “a potential target for a nuclear strike” after launching the AUKUS pact with the US and UK to build nuclear-powered submarines.
The Global Times, which is controlled by the party, issued the warning as the trilateral security deal — set up to counter China — caused outrage in France, which was not invited to participate, and unease in New Zealand, which opposes nuclear energy.
The propaganda outlet published an article titled, “Nuke sub deal could make Australia potential nuclear war target.”
The article said: “Chinese military experts warned that [AUKUS] will potentially make Australia a target of a nuclear strike if a nuclear war breaks out even when Washington said it won’t arm Canberra with nuclear weapons, because it’s easy for the US to equip Australia with nuclear weapons and submarine-launched ballistic missiles when Australia has the submarines.”
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian — notorious for falsely suggesting that the US military released COVID-19 in Wuhan, China — said AUKUS “seriously damages regional peace and stability, intensifies the arms race, and undermines the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.”
Zhao said, “China will pay close attention to the development of the AUKUS deal. Relevant countries should abandon their Cold War and zero-sum game mentality; otherwise, they will lift a rock that drops on their own feet.”
The AUKUS initiative received unexpectedly strong reaction this week from France, which owns island territories in the Pacific and Indian oceans. French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told France Info radio, “It is really a stab in the back.”
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China would make good use of Australia’s interior.
>Dont look at the bright light, if you hear a loud BOOM
Pretty sure you would see the light before the BOOM
Isn't Vegemite mined out of some hole in the Outback? It tastes like it.
So neighborly. The Chi-Coms are just such neighborly folk ..
Their existing alliance with the US.
Aussies, South Korea, Japan, and Tiawan should do a joint annoucement that they are going to have a nuclear weapons sharing program and to produce 250 fission weapons and 100 fusion weapons as defence against Chinese nuclear threats. TODAY.
Agreed.
Seconded. Just do it? What is China going to do? Blow you up? They are going to if you do nothing anyways, no?
Duck and cover worked to alay fears in my generation.
You gotta buy an abandoned missile silo now. If you worked it right you might even get a spare missile from the Norks!
In which case Siberia is right there with something like 40% of the worlds oi, lots of minerals and resources as well as a very long land boarder with China
But that right, the Russians would actually use their nukes
More the reason to buy a whole bunch of “Boomers” with nuclear teeth, very sharp, destructive teeth!!
“ >Dont look at the bright light, if you hear a loud BOOM
Pretty sure you would see the light before the BOOM”
Or maybe the dog just knocked over a table lamp.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian — notorious for falsely suggesting that the US military released COVID-19 in Wuhan, China — said AUKUS “seriously damages regional peace and stability, intensifies the arms race, and undermines the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.”
Brainless Joe's handlers know that Macron's name is **** in the US right now because of his COVID fascism. And, they're probably looking at the eventuality of France's turning his party out of power in 2022.
Do not believe all the crap you are being told about Australia in America.
I honestly don’t understand why conservative Americans think the left wing media is any more honest about other countries than it is about America.
Ghurkas are Nepalese.
can you say Three Gorges Dam?
Boom!!
F-you China
One: Australia is at least a bit more hospitable in a number of ways.
Two: Australia would be a bit less difficult to defeat.
The Aussies need to tell the ChiComs “we have little birds that can whisper in certain ears and poof! Three Gorges Dam is gone.”
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