Their is a greater chance of Having a War with Japan again then ever having one with China. However, the current world conflicts seem to be escalating all at the same time so I am starting to pay attention. With regard to soft power China is critically aware of the political ramifications of Australias poorly thought through foreign policies, and in particular the rage that these have created throughout Indonesia. In short, Senator Lambies outburst is largely accurate, premature perhaps, but based on British and American preponderance, accurate nevertheless. Youll like it even more knowing that your donation will help us to keep up the good fight. Another Century of War? Its attempts to economically coerce Australia into its geopolitical orbit should disturb. Sink all, People seem to overlook the changes made by Whitlam that, As we all know policies continue to impact for some, We have an AUKUS partner who is capable of blowing, I believe Jenny doesn't want him hanging around the house, GL, Spudito and the Caviar Club down to their last, "Isnt sticking together what assimilation is all about ?" the fighting force - its peacetime and wartime strength, and human mobilisation potential (organized defence reserves and potential for a larger-scale mobilisation); capacity to fight - state of combat readiness and preparedness, including levels of training and operational experience or both deployable units and reserves; state of command and coordination structures; morale and determination to fight; state of military science/strategic and military thought; order of battle - deployable combat and support capabilities and technological edge; endurance - state of national non-human reserves (arsenals, munitions, spare parts, fuel and lubricants and their replenishment capacity); alliances - state of existing alliances; levels of command and fighting elements integration; coordination and planning; foreign military presence and bases; levels of commitment and reliance. We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. Moreover, China has continued to exercise its perceived regional rights with relative impunity; and the PRC recently rejected a US proposal to decrease tensions over the disputed territories,[14] and these are further signs the days of absolute control for the US are over. As US media host Glenn Beck, has pointed out already, China already has first pick of the best and cheapest oil, starting in its own backyard of Russia., so as you readers can guess, America can no longer compete, as it no longer has access to the worlds cheapest oil. Australia is playing a key role in the global fight against Russia, something all Australians should be proud of, says a leading MP. Great article, and I had a nice chuckle at some of the sentiments of those who took the time to comment. It responded with an unprecedented wave of . After all its our back yard. I agree wholeheartedly Trevor, though I cant see things changing unless Australia disengages from the US and makes its own waywe will be drawn into a conflict at the behest of the US, if only to test Chinas repose and manoeuvrings. Note that preparation is NOT the same as Shannon Brandao on LinkedIn: U.S., UK and Australia carry out China-focused air drills Selling more and more of our assets (mineral companies and FREEHOLD farming land) is moving the country to a checkmate position with China controling its assets. Links to YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and other services inserted in the comment text will be automatically embedded. With all of the above-mentioned commentary, and in particular because Monk has drawn into the mix an historical pivot, there is a need to examine these issues further to highlight where the fear comes from, and where it has its roots. On April 25, the symbolic date of Anzac Day, when Australia honors its war dead, newly appointed Defense Minister Peter Dutton said a conflict with China over Taiwan shouldn't "be discounted,". China is a completely different because it has a pax-Sino in mind not unlike the pax-Britannica of the 1800s and it has embarked upon this in earnest from the mid-1990s and it has a centurys long plan. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/jacqui-lambie-refuses-to-apologise-for-warning-of-chinese-invasion/story-fn59niix-1227038207396. Offensive strike can be interpreted as a series of limited or larger scale prolonged long-distance kinetic and cyber offensive actions, conducted remotely. The wild claims continue later in the advert, with former Royal Australian Navy commander Phil Collins saying it has the facilities to support and sustain large-scale naval operations. If a more solid outcome and strategic footprint air- and sea-bases in Indonesia is enabled by the PRC beyond the current military outposts of Pakistan and Myanmar the danger/s for Australia exponentially increase and an invasion would be more likely. Reported suspensions would cut Australian exports by up to $6 billion. Daily Star Online has contacted United Australia Party for comment. War is a fools game and China knows it. In the meantime China will continue to invade Australia from an economic perspective and this will have a triad attached: to enable China to exert influence on regional strategic partnerships; to establish China and A-P multilateral deals that actively encourage the use of the Renminbi (sometimes called the Yuan), as a source of collateral; and to pro-actively downgrade Australia-US military commitments and partnerships. This factor, in the first instance is where there are ongoing and developing difficulties. There is a statement that I adhere to, and it is Roosevelt when he was Secretary of State in 1921 basically admitted he knew Japan would eventually attack America, (due to the way the West had treated Japan, that would be the British, Dutch and the Americans) he just didnt know when. From this point it is obvious that if China were able to establish a greater military presence in Indonesia exercising control over Australia would be more able to be achieved although this would more likely be the strangulation of access to shipping- and air-traffic in the region, regardless of whether it is military or mercantile, as this tactic would essentially render Australia fiscally and militarily decapitated in the region. He said despite widespread panic at the time, and post-war mythologising, even in World War II we were in no serious danger of occupation. Invasions by the Soviets into Chechnya, the United States of America (US) into Iraq, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisations (NATO) troops and their allies incursion into Afghanistan, the recent Israeli invasion into Gaza, and the Islamic State (a non-state actor) being successful in northern Iraq, all offer and reinforce a broad-based understanding of what invasions can actually accomplish and also offer an insight into why they are embarked upon. The question that can now be asked and the one that returns to the core of this article, is will this result in an invasion of Australia? Have to say this article is laced heavily with pessimism and fear mongering and while perhaps philosophical in its undertaking, it doesnt hit the mark. Now, try to find out where all our Gold and other more precious commodities have been going and then why our Conservative US backed Governments have sold out our Reserves? A significant part of the reason the rise of China, and the subsequent actions of the PRC government have become so chilling, and the reason the invasion word was used by Senator Lambie, is twofold. Military Invasion alert after China crosses line. More to the point could we one day become disillusioned with the US and form a stronger alliance with China, India, Brazil and Asia. In March, Adm. Philip Davidson, the head of US Indo-Pacific Command at. And that was when I was a child !! The ADFs combat experience in campaigns fought in the Middle East and Afghanistan is valuable, but would it help to fight against a high tempo campaign near-peer adversary? I just wonder why the author thinks that Americas debt would be a protective factor in preventing a conflict with China. (Defence Department: Leading Seaman Daniel Goodman) 'War would impoverish us all' One thing is for sure, China does not need to invade Australia. After the next decade for Australia all will not be so secure. The four major challenges Australia faces in 2022 There are major challenges the world will have to face this year over and above COVID-19, the first being the management of the rise of China. Its TERRORISM people. Try again. I think we are in for a few surprises as the old economic and political models falter and global warming becomes a real issue. Based on history, a war is in the making. Over time China is seeking to take its rightful place in a globalized world. This has been done with unconditional fiscal contributions (loans). Malcolm Davis, a senior analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), said that in the case of war breaking out between China and Taiwan, Australia would be pulled into the conflict by the US. War and the arming for war is the defining rationale behind the (dominant) Western Economies. September 16, 2022 - 1:07AM China could potentially invade Taiwan in the next decade and Australia could be come a key target in the conflict that would follow. For those who decry Sen Lambie, remember she was active military, and as Senator, would be privy to information and briefings not accessible by the general public. Peace is said to be Wars opposite and everwhile the arming for war denies peace any opportunity of reality except in the mind of man. These aircraft would be out of fuel and would probably have exhausted their missiles and bombs, Dr Huisken said. For peace to come about either locally or globally, a major reappraisal of Language and all the edifices of modern life are called into question. The Amnesia Express had a good line in a lyric of a song about defining the difference of Peace to the present state of readiness to war. But the nation is not in a good place. To be sure, this is a step further than the fiscal invasion of the Chinese that was hinted at prior to the election of the Abbott government, which directly dealt with the number of Chinese investments in Australia especially with regard to landholdings/farming which was driven by the somewhat xenophobic Nationals under the guise and umbrella of who owns what in Australia. Free market squabbling aside, and the prejudices inherent within this argument about the marketplace, the issue that needs to be examined is whether there is a modicum of truth in what Lambie has stated. In that effort, China "really got a bloody nose, it was not a very successful operation," director of the Asia program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States Bonnie Glaser said. It is unlikely that the PLA will risk using its ageing strategic bomber force as a long-range offensive asset against Australia. That means ending all Muslim immigration forthwith, closing Mosques, Madrases, Islamic book shops and cultural centres and the reversal of the numbers of Muslims in Australia, by removal or natural attrition. War is inevitable. The implications for Australia beyond 2025 onwards are not as assured and this will be due to the fact that as China continues to rise the US will continue to decline and therefore, the US will have become a significantly lesser threat. Something went wrong, please try again later. [9] Ezra Vogel. How did it satisfy the demands of its ever-growing middle-classes? And the gold and silver theyve vacuumed up in recent years rise in value more than enough to offset their depreciating Treasury bonds. Free registration to the ADM Headlines email newsletter: Stay informed with the latest in the business of defence. Long March Out of China. The Australian, Melbourne: Murdoch Media, 19 August, 2014, 9. The evidence-base for this outcome is also in the history of the West. Too many moving targets to make any sure fire predictions. We have been and unfortunately probably will continue to sell it to them. Dr Strobe Driver reports. Among them are the following (but not necessarily in this exact order): The ADF is a highly trained and combat experienced battle force, which continuously invests in acquiring advanced military capabilities that enable it to operate across all current and emerging battle domains. This is a well written, well constructed article, but I find the premise on which it is based implausible. "Our judgement at least is that (China's . Kaye Lee, Nail hit firmly on the head. Be afraid and whatever you do, support your government!!! You can upload: image, , video, , spreadsheet, interactive, text, archive, , . Returning to the initial centrepiece of Lambies argument and notion of whether Australia is in danger of being invaded in the traditional sense of the term. These are clear examples of preponderance and to believe China is not on a similar pathway modelled on British and American history is to deliberately ignore the evidence. The US, their nemesis in the Great Game, is diminished. Hence, it can attack Australia by means of a sophisticated cyber offensive campaign, even without a formal declaration of hostile intent. China has moved in a truly global direction and is on a pathway that was triggered, and then further stimulated, by Premier Deng Xiaoping who started the process in the mid-1980s. Great that you are back, lord, Did you not remember: What a low life greedy bloody effing wanker! Tensions between Australia and its biggest trading partner, China, drastically deteriorated last year when Prime Minister Scott Morrison called for an independent inquiry into the origins of. Although detailed information about national stockpiles of munitions, critical spares, and fuel is not wholly open-source it is logical to expect that the ADF holds sufficient resources to engage in high tempo large scale operations for a certain period of time. China knows America is getting weaker by the day, owns most of the US debt and will demand America to pay back the debt or China will cripple America economically (no more cheap loans). No Australian Government can or could begin this journey to peace as all the present shitstems operations are to fuel war cause war is big business. The evidence is Americas slow reaction to commenting on and having a greater involvement in the South China Sea tensions in a more immediate manner which is in direct contrast to its role in the Cold War years. China could invade Taiwan later this year, top Navy officer warns By Caitlin Doornbos October 21, 2022 12:14pm Updated 0 of 58 secondsVolume 0% 00:00 00:58 China could invade Taiwan as. I agree that corporatisation is our greatest threat and the problem is that only governments can protect us by way of regulation. Chinese support- and/or operated-bases are in their infancy and this will be the case for at least another decade and therefore an invasion would not be strategically viable. These past weeks have seen Clive Palmer MP berate the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) government and other (Chinese) that have had business dealings with him. Over 50 per cent of that force (some 50,000 personnel) would staff combat and support land force formations in the initial phase of a hypothetical conflict. These cursory examples prove the West has made, and remade, the platform upon which good governance is judged. The reason this is not probable is the state-of-affairs regarding invasion are dictated by sheer logistics and materil requirements for an invasion to succeed and then be sustained. This is the real war. Enter your email address to subscribe to The AIMN and receive notifications of new posts by email. [3] http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-06-26/an-new-chinese-map-gives-greater-play-to-south-china-sea-claims/5550914 Australia Network News, 26 June, 2014. [12] This illustrates the US is keen to keep one step ahead of China in the region. China has stepped up presence on Australia's South Pacific neighbours former US Navy intelligence commander described bold plans as expansionist Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and Kiribati ditch. What am I missing? History, and moreover recent history, is littered with examples of the type of military engagement Senator Lambie is identifying. Australia also has rare earths and God knows what PNG has still yet? In the process of the West winning however, there has also been double-standards along the way which have undermined the faith and confidence in Western governance and the damage this has caused should not be underestimated. Such a distribution of both human and physical core infrastructure offers a technologically advanced and militarily superior adversary a multitude of opportunities, ranging from political-military blackmail in times of heightened geopolitical crisis, to limited or large-scale offensive operations in times of war. Whoops that cant be right. Many are asking what lessons China is drawing from Russia's invasion of Ukraine for its own plans to bring Taiwan to heel. The shock of this state-of-affairs resides in Western nation-states and Western European-centric nations Australia and America, and to some extent Japan are included is included in this mix have been privy to, over the past several centuries is watching the slow but sure rise of Western Europe as a force. As Europe became a force it has incrementally been able to dictate its version of what government and governance should comprise of to the rest of the world. The two-minute-long advert suggests that the Chinese government has been working with Australian politicians in buying businesses on the countrys shores. I wont go into the importance of our location to those Interests here. @ stephengb: I cannot hep wondering why discussions about taxation. [5] Andrew Browne. Australia has been warned to expect a Chinese "strategic surprise" in 2022. It is safe to assume that in the event of a large-scale invasion of mainland Australia, the ADFs response capacity would be overstretched beyond any reasonable expectation of waging effective defensive operations. The Chinese are already quietly invading us in droves, buying up huge amounts of property and investment. The most astonishing assertion by one analyst was that "Australia has a fundamental strategic pathology - to support the interests of the U.S. at the expense of our own. Copyright The Australian Independent Media Network 2014-2022 ABN: 44313698183. We also may change the frequency you receive our emails from us in order to keep you up to date and give you the best relevant information possible. When it comes to assessing a countrys fighting potential on a comparative basis, a number of major contributing factors needs to be taken into account. Blunt threats made in Chinese mainstream media, and more recent remarks by an Australian senator- that the ADF is unlikely to last even a few days in a high-end conflict with China - warrant yet another examination of Australias strategic circumstances and the likelihood of an attack on mainland Australia. War with China is just a silly sensationalist drivel. http://www.alternet.org/world/chomsky-americas-obsession-destroys-earths-climate. Nuh still something wrong. [10] Herein lies the problem that Australia in the first instance and the Western world in the second, will have to face: if China is not offered a more prominent of rightful place in the schemata of world strategies/politics a massive disruption will occur as China will react to any moves by other nation-states to retard its progress. AAP/AP/Ritchie B. Tongo. For example, the ADF can ensure command superiority by protecting its own communications, command, control, computers, intelligence and interoperability (C2I4) structures, systems and networks from hostile disruptive operations, while denying an adversary the ability to utilise theirs. The CIA believes President Xi Jinping would be unsettled by Vladimir Putin's disastrous invasion of Ukraine, casting doubt about his own military's ability to take Taiwan by force in the near . For Russia, China and India this looks like a win/win. [2] Hugh White. Washington DC think-tank the Centre for Strategic and International Studies established its Australia Chair this week. Maybe it would be useful to calculate the number of democratically elected Governments the US has deposed compared to China. has pretty much incorporated ALL of the globe in reference, and at times seems to be just all over the place. The End of History and the Last Man. Over 90 per cent of the countrys population is spread along coastal areas, with a majority concentrated in a number of urban hubs located on the Pacific, Southern and Indian Ocean sides of the country. There is a comment that I would like to make and that is the article that I have written from my perspective is grounded in what Prof Peter Singer called where the evidence takes me. I would prefer my article to have a different outcome than a limited invasion of Australia, however as far as my research takes me (and there is more to come) it is based on the British and US model of China exerting its power-base through global military preponderance, especially when it has a comprehensive blue-water navy. If there is a war with China, it will most likely be over its efforts to reunite Taiwan with the mainland. China is Australia's largest trading partner, making up 30 per . The coming state-of-affairs for Australia will be one surviving the numerous upcoming protracted and friction-filled escalations and the ever-greater political and military demands China will inevitably make. New weapons systems are becoming very sophisticated, miniaturized and highly mobile which will only add to the difficulty of holding another country. A sad state of affairs. 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