Sabre rattling
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The first ever training drill between the four nations called Exercise Jeanne d'Arc 21 - or ARC21 - practiced amphibious assaults, urban warfare and anti-aircraft defence - and was met with fury by Beijing.
Australia and its insignificant military will be “first hit” in the event of a war over Taiwan
Australia's military is too weak to be a worthy opponent of China, and if it dares to interfere in a military conflict for example in the Taiwan Straits, its forces will be among the first to be hit.
'Australia must not think it can hide from China if it provokes.
'Australia is within range of China's conventional warhead-equipped DF-26 intermediate-range ballistic missile.'
Over the past year China has slapped more than $20billion worth of arbitrary trade bans and tariffs on Australian exports as an apparent punishment for calling for an independent inquiry into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic - which first appeared in Wuhan in 2019.
Tensions were further strained last month when various figures including the likes of Defence Minister Peter Dutton, Former Defence Minister Christopher Pyne and Home Affairs secretary Michael Pezzullo, all suggested the 'drums of war' in the region are getting louder.
We have a weak leader, a loss of national will, and, seemingly a crew around Biden that’s prone to panic and paralysis. This might seem to Xi Jinping to be a propitious time for China to move onto Taiwan and reclaim it, as has been the communists’ stated goal since 1948.
A miscalculation here will make the pandemic look like the hiccup it was.
Circling Back: It occurs to me that we might get Randy Newman to appeal to Xi’s softer side, and convince him that “he don’t wanna hurt no kangaroo”
