Australia’s defence minister Richard Marles has called on China to explain why it needs to have “such an extraordinary military build-up”.
On Sunday morning, Marles asserted that “what we have seen from China is the single biggest increase in military capability and build up in conventional sense, by any country since the end of the Second World War”.
It is not just the size of the military build-up that concerns other countries, he told reporters.
“It’s the fact that it is happening without strategic reassurance. It’s happening without a clear strategic intent on the part of China… what we want to see is strategic transparency and strategic reassurance be provided by China, and an understanding of why it is needed to have such an extraordinary military build-up.”
Australian navy keeps fucking around in the South China, deliberately trying to antagonise China because the US told them to. No Western news coverage of this at all.
The US keeps trying to use the Taiwan situation as a wedge issue, keeping dozens of warships stationed in the area, because they desperately want another proxy war. No Western news coverage of this.
China does anything at all in response to all this deliberate antagonisation, even if it’s something as minor as, telling an Australian ship to go away, or moving PLA troops around in response to the Americans. Western news media makes a huge amount of noise about how China is doing all these for no reason and in response to nothing, and how they must be stopped with a military intervention.
“fucking around in the South China” = sailing in international waters as defined by the UNCLOS, to which China is a signatory
“US keeps trying to use the Taiwan situation as a wedge issue” = maintaining the status quo in the face of repeated, overt invasion threats
“desperately want a proxy war” = can’t allow an oligo-fascist state to seize control of the single-path source of chips that enable modern life
“no western news coverage of this” = I don’t look at the news