Australia China tensions.

[5pins]

It seems the two are not playing nicely. Probably just posturing but still...

'Retaliatory punishment': Chinese paper calls for strike on 'Australian soil'

China should consider “long-range strikes” if war with the West eventuates, according to an editorial in the country’s pro-government newspaper which threatened potential Chinese bombing of "Australian soil".

Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief of Chinese Communist Party’s mouthpiece, The Global Times, wrote in an editorial Friday he believes China should prepare "to impose retaliatory punishment against Australia" if it interferes with the county's actions in the Taiwan Strait.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/retaliator...075142797.html

[Greg]

the country’s pro-government newspaper


Are any other types allowed ?

[Bergeron]

China is developing an airstrip originally built by the U.S. on a Pacific island nation located exactly on the Great Circle Route from U.S. to Australia.

The alliance against China cannot become too strong, too coordinated, too quickly.

[RevolverRob]

Wonder if the Kiwis are rethinking their bullshit about China and the US from last month?

[Joe in PNG]

Wonder if the Kiwis are rethinking their bullshit about China and the US from last month?

Probably not, and they probably won't until it's too late. Their PM is too far woke.

[Joe in PNG]

China is developing an airstrip originally built by the U.S. on a Pacific island nation located exactly on the Great Circle Route from U.S. to Australia.

The alliance against China cannot become too strong, too coordinated, too quickly.

They've also proposed a "commercial city development" and "fishing port" on Daru island on the Torres strait.

[Bergeron]

Nature abhors a vacuum. Where the allies are not, the Communists will be.

[HeavyDuty]

China is developing an airstrip originally built by the U.S. on a Pacific island nation located exactly on the Great Circle Route from U.S. to Australia.

The alliance against China cannot become too strong, too coordinated, too quickly.

Who the hell gave that up?

[Bergeron]

A couple of links:

Kiribati and Kanton.html

Kiribati-Airstrip Upgrades

When the war comes, we will have to fight tooth and nail to get into the theatre.

To circle back to the Original Post, China has fully invested in ballistic and cruise missiles. Every nation that exists under that umbrella will experience coercion proportionate to the CCP's perception of an ability to strike a them with such weapons. Our own Missile Defense Agency could be a real diplomatic aid against Chinese near-abroad power, and we should lean on the "defensive-moral" nature of our systems in any endeavor to keep the Commies bottled up tight in the First Island Chain.

[Joe in PNG]

To circle back to the Original Post, China has fully invested in ballistic and cruise missiles. Every nation that exists under that umbrella will experience coercion proportionate to the CCP's perception of an ability to strike a them with such weapons. Our own Missile Defense Agency could be a real diplomatic aid against Chinese near-abroad power, and we should lean on the "defensive-moral" nature of our systems in any endeavor to keep the Commies bottled up tight in the First Island Chain.

Don't worry- I'm sure Biden is up to the challenge!