The MSM is missing the boat on this one. China has been threatening Taiwan frequently as they build up their military and we are doing next to nothing about it. But Australia is not being as tight-lipped about the upcoming conflict. On more than one occasion they have warned that a conflict with China is highly likely. So much so in fact that China is now saying they feel a divide growing between the countries.
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,” adding that Australians needed to be “realistic” about tensions around the region.
In another Anzac Day message, the top official at Australia’s powerful Home Affairs department, Mike Pezzullo, told his staff “free nations” were hearing the “drums of war” beating again.
A few days later, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced $580 million in military upgrades. One week on, several newspapers published a confidential briefing by Australia’s Maj. Gen. Adam Findlay to special forces soldiers, in which he said conflict with China was a “high likelihood.”
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China feels Australia is creating a divide between their countries.
“Recently, some Australian Commonwealth Government officials launched a series of measures to disrupt the normal exchanges and cooperation between China and Australia out of Cold War mindset and ideological discrimination,” China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said in a short statement on the decision.
The commission did not say in the statement what specific measures prompted the action.
China’s foreign ministry spokesman, Wang Wenbin, told a daily conference the suspension was a “necessary and legitimate” response to Australia “abusing” the concept of national security to pressure cooperation with China.
“Australia must bear full responsibility,” he said.”
I think it’s more like China doesn’t like that Australia is not falling in line. The Biden Administration sanctioned China over the Uighur Genocide but when questioned about them in a Town Hall, Biden just said we have different social norms as if genocide is somehow ok. Australia also holds China responsible for COVID, they want an investigation, something the whole world should want, which could also be raising the tension as China tries to sweep any culpability under the rug. But if Australia goes to war with China, we are allied with them and may end up joining in. So I hope Biden’s babysitters take note and start building up our armaments.