Australia: In the Gun Sights of China By James Reed

Unnamed China experts, quoted in The Australian, have said that Australia’s plan to build nuclear-powered submarines with the United States and UK, would put Australia on China’s military radar, literally. Rather than go into the specifics, let us focus on the defence ideology where these experts are coming from. One logical implication of the claim, if accepted (which means that the nuclear subs are not considered a deterrent in themselves), is that Australia at present is not in communist China’s gun sights. Yet, that claim is false. Cyber attacks from China occur daily, most of which are countered. Australia has Pine Gap, which puts us on the communist Chinese radar from the beginning. Other defence experts see Pine Gap getting a nuclear strike in the event of a US/China war. So, Australia is already on China’s radar.

Finally, China has world conquest ambitions, and if the US is disposed of, there is no reason to suppose that multicult Australia, rich in mineral resources, would not face inevitable invasion. Why, the Japanese are concerned about an invasion of their nation by China. The Australian chattering class do not consider such questions, as decades of multiculturalist Leftist propaganda and brainwashing, have blunted their critical faculties.  And, unnatural selection, the political culling of conservative intellectuals, has produced an academy with much lower IQs anyway.

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“Chinese experts have warned that Australia has “officially put itself on Beijing’s defence radar” with its $368bn plan to build nuclear powered submarines with the United States and United Kingdom.

Government-linked academics and military officials said Australia’s mammoth defence acquisition was putting the country on the “frontline” of America and China’s strategic competition, which they said would worsen Canberra’s already strained relationship with its biggest trading partner.

The warnings come as China’s Foreign Ministry continues an already 18-month long campaign against the three-country submarine deal, arguing the AUKUS deal will undermine the international non-proliferation system and stoke an arms race in the Indo-Pacific.

Chen Hong, president of the Chinese Association of Australian Studies and director of the Australian Studies Centre at East China Normal University, said the AUKUS arrangement was a “time bomb for peace and stability in the region”.

“Continuing promoting the alliance means that Australia will officially put itself on Beijing’s defence radar,” Professor Chen told China’s nationalistic tabloid the Global Times.

Chinese military expert Song Zhongping told the party-state masthead that Australia had become a “de facto offshoot of the US nuclear submarine fleet”, which elevated risks for Australian forces.

“The US wants to make Australia its frontline military base in the Indo-Pacific region and let its allies foot the bill,” Mr Song said.

China’s Foreign Ministry — with the support of its strategic partner Russia — has repeatedly said the deal is in violation of the international non-proliferation regime, a claim that has been rejected by the International Atomic Energy Agency.”