Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. A superior military air force could, in effect, control all of Western Australias resources in the Pilbara and the North West Shelf gas reserves.. Subscribe to ADM Premium. The importance of outposts and the enhanced capabilities they offer can be seen through Britain in the Falkland Islands/Islas Malvinas, the US in Guam, Diego Garcia and the United Arab Emirates. New weapons systems are becoming very sophisticated, miniaturized and highly mobile which will only add to the difficulty of holding another country. We have been and unfortunately probably will continue to sell it to them. War and the arming for war is the defining rationale behind the (dominant) Western Economies. 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. Australia must be willing to invade the Solomon Islands and topple its government if that's what is necessary to stop a proposed security pact between China and the Pacific nation going ahead . 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. 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. Nevertheless, being a minister of parliament does demand a level of tact and discretion that was obviously lacking on the night in question and there has been some repercussions, but other than hurt feelings not much more seems to have eventuated an apology was forthcoming and all appears smooth again. The Chinese are already quietly invading us in droves, buying up huge amounts of property and investment. It is unlikely that the PLA will risk using its ageing strategic bomber force as a long-range offensive asset against Australia. Chuck in a few bucks and see just how far it goes! great commentary, thankyou for your input one and all. Simply unbelievable that our parliament is now dominated by self serving [insert adjective]. This was followed by a further dictum from his colleague Senator Jacqui Lambie speaking about the potential of a Chinese invasion and whats more, she has refused to withdraw her comment. Reduction of our options, in order to protect a Foreign Interest and our consideration of the other options open to us, is most likely. So, I agree with your conclusion.. Great program on the War To End All Wars circa 1914-18 on ABC tonight. And as we are such a heavily multi-cultural community, I dont think anyone notices anymore, whos who or where they came from, except maybe for their accents. Thats the bizarre claim used in a political advert from the United Australia Party. Similarly, China can regularise and intensify cyber-attacks on Australian key assets to cause more disruption and inflict more damage. For Russia, China and India this looks like a win/win. 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. God help our descendents. 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. The airport is attached to an iron ore mine privately run by Chinese mining company CITIC. Maybe her comment was not as stupid as everybody thought at the time. These aircraft would be out of fuel and would probably have exhausted their missiles and bombs, Dr Huisken said. Adding to that, some of these hubs house core elements of critical infrastructure, including major defence installations (among them bases and headquarters). The evidence-base for this outcome is also in the history of the West. There is however, more to all of these events in terms of them being simply categorized as overt acts of violence that have a focused outcome namely territorial acquisition through force and it is within this spectrum that Senator Lambie alludes to, that can be given a perspective. It is at this point that the historical element as well as the dangers for other actors particularly Australia in the A-P region and the invasion scenario to which Lambie alludes can be introduced. The maximum upload file size: 2 MB. particularly June Bullivant. There ya go. It is pertinent to ask what will drive such an outcome. Another Century of War? He questionedwhatthey would do after landing in Pilbara. 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. They just borrow from a world voracious for dollars. Britain robustly expanded beyond its own borders often usurping other nation-states, frequently through violence and colonisation in order to gain what it needed. [5] Andrew Browne. 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. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/jacqui-lambie-refuses-to-apologise-for-warning-of-chinese-invasion/story-fn59niix-1227038207396. 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? Domestic harmony is also part of the PRCs aim. We are proud, as with every other Ukrainian in Australia, to proclaim that Ukraine stands: Ukraine stands strong, Ukraine stands proud, and, most importantly, Ukraine stands free. 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. News By Simon Green Assistant Editor (Digital) 15:20, 15 FEB 2019 Updated 20:17, 15 FEB 2019 Video Loading United Australia Party leader warns of Chinese takeover Gosh and golly. Australians must never forget how the 14 conditions delivered to Australia by China would change this nation forever. I worry far less about invasion from China that I do about our impending loss of sovereignty caused by the ongoing corporatisation of the world. You can donate through PayPal or credit card via the button below, or donate via bank transfer: Your email address will not be published. China has been quick to capitalise on this with gaining deeper connections with Indonesia. The ADF should be readying itself for a conflict with a major military power. Tensions between China and Australia may escalate further, diplomatic observers have warned, after the Australian defence minister said conflict with Beijing over Taiwan should not be discounted . http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674055445. In the first instance an Asian nation has never presented such a symbolic threat to Western hegemony; and secondly, never has an Asian nation had the actual potential to follow through in a sustained/long tern way with military force. Don't miss a thing! The question of fuel deposits, which has to be replenished regularly, remains. I just wonder why the author thinks that Americas debt would be a protective factor in preventing a conflict with China. Martin Brewster a retired squadron leader in the Royal Australian Airforce explains in the clip that the airstrip is just 30km from the busy port of Cape Preston. "It may only need to establish a blockade which, with the world's largest coast guard, 10,000 ton' maritime . The question of what type of war the ADF should be prepared to fight represents one of the ongoing points of debate in Canberra and beyond. The island of about 25 million people, backed by the US and Japan, broke away from the mainland in 1949 when the losers of its civil war fled Mao Zedong's brutal communist regime. In the context of the Chinese hypothetical invasion threat, two problem factors can be identified: the fighting force and the question of endurance. China is our largest trading partner, but we insult it by hewing to the US political line, forsaking our own strategic interests. WILD: An Australian politician has made a bizarre claim about a small airstrip in the desert, IMPORTANT: The video pointed out the airstrip's proximity to the port of Cape Preston. Trillions of dollars would be dumped on the global market in a very short time, which would lower the dollars foreign exchange value in a disruptive rather than advantageous way, raise domestic US interest rates and make it vastly harder for them to bully the rest of the world economically or militarily. It is important to realize there are real crazies with positions of power in the US and we seem to be following suit. We are at no immediate risk of invasion nobody in the region has anything like the force projection capability required to put tens of thousands of set of boots anywhere of strategic value on our land mass, let alone sustain the supply chain long enough to sustain even a brief campaign. 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. 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 . Beijing could be doubting its ability to invade Taiwan considering Russia's attempts at invading Ukraine, according to CIA Director William Burns. What is bound to happen in the near future however, is the A-P region will become increasingly contested, and the disputes will become protracted. Is Australia really in danger of being invaded? Something went wrong, please try again later. Drop file here. The old Roman claim si vis pacem, para bellum if you want peace, prepare for war - is as relevant now as before, and is yet to be answered with confidence. 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. The heretofore hidden fears that reside alongside the mercantile arena of profit and the food bowl debates within the Asia-Pacific (A-P) have evolved into the public arena. Sheesh if only they had known the brakes were off and the war machine would just keep rolling along. [7] See Francis Fukuyama. Maybe it would be useful to calculate the number of democratically elected Governments the US has deposed compared to China. I thought, Censorship is never innocent, made worse for its strained good intentions. 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Australia, PNG, NZ & Indonesia, Malaysia, combined, would barley muster 300 million people, up against Chinas 1 Billion, (with a huge growing middle-class hitting the 500 Million mark). Doing that will improve the security outlook here by a great measure. Secondly, China deploys a long-range strike capability (conventional and unconventional), which allows it to target Australia. Recently the Obama administration has gone to great lengths to reassure Australia it is committed to keeping a geo-strategic and political presence in the region with a recent visit by Secretary of State Kerry and a reiteration of wanting to rebalance Asia. What the hell have we done? By Alan Dupont. What am I missing? 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. 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