Australia is in China’s sights
The details come to us from CNN reporter Nectar Gan in an article republished on MSN titled “
Live-fire drills by ‘extremely capable’ Chinese warships rattle New Zealand and Australia.” To wit:
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A Chinese Navy formation held two live-fire exercises in the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand on Friday and Saturday, prompting passenger planes to change course mid-flight and rattling officials in both countries. The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy ships, consisting of a frigate, a cruiser and a replenishment vessel, had been sailing down the coast of Australia since mid-February, according to the Australian Defense Force.”
Needless to say, the event caused quite a kerfuffle in Australia and New Zealand. As Peter Hartcher, international and political editor for
The Sydney Morning Herald,
bluntly put it, “It’s a political act of intimidation. It is a pointed outreach … This is the point we have been exposed as vulnerable, and it’s partly because of our own failure.”
Meanwhile, unsurprisingly, Chinese ambassador to Australia Xiao Qian rather undiplomatically told ABC News that “
I don’t see there is any reason why the Chinese side should feel sorry about that, or even to think about to apologise for that.”
According to
the Pentagon’s latest annual report on the Chinese military, the PLAN is the world’s largest naval force, with a fleet of more than 370 surface ships and submarines. Meanwhile, the
World Directory of Modern Military Warships (WDMMW) actually credits 405 fleet units to the PLAN but
still ranks it second behind the U.S. Navy out of forty national naval powers.
For the basis of comparison, the
Royal Australian Navy ranks smack dab in the middle of WDMMW’s top forty list at twentieth,
with a paltry thirty-five ships in the fleet.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/war-and-c...aland-with-live-fire-naval-drills/ar-AA1AbRk1
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The Australians just sit there doing nothing like a bump on a log because they CAN’T do anything. Utterly cucked by the filthy and backwards turd world Chinks.