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.”
Maybe step one of the protest is to stop buying from China
Don’t be silly. Big corporations would lose profits. We can’t have that! /s
They’re…asking a country about this? What, do they expect China to say “we’re preparing to invade Taiwan in 2026”? This is just fishing for bullshit answers so politicians can pretend like they buy it and ignore actually dealing with the military buildup by taking action.
Isn’t it obvious? President Xi publicly ordered the Chinese military to be ready to invade Taiwan by 2026.
I’ll tell you why, they see how close Russia is to being defeated and they’re going to move in to take the territories in the East pretty much like Japan did with French Indochina once France was defeated in WW2
It’s quite simple the US is seen as politically willed at the moment so it’s time to take a bite and see how much they can swallow.
I don’t think there’s much of a mystery to solve here. Basically every country or territory along China’s maritime borders is forming or deepening ties with the U.S. military, buying weapons systems, and even building new bases. A full-blown war between nuclear powers is pretty unthinkable but just a blockade would seriously harm China’s economy.
Of course, everyone talks about just wanting to protect shipping lanes and their territorial sovereignty and shit like that. Peace through strength. Maybe that ultimately turns out to be how it goes. But wars have broken out over some pretty dumb shit that escalated.
“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”
WTF? The USA alone outspends most of the world combined in this area but somehow China is the threat? This guy should at least remove the american balls he’s gargling before spouting something like that
America overthrew the Australian government last time they did that. The balls remain firmly in place.
For all you folk who aren’t big history nerds and didn’t know that the US overthrew the government of AUSTRALIA, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional_crisis
It’s really interesting
I had no idea. Thanks for sharing
I wouldn’t be surprised if a near-peer could outscale the US with maybe a quarter of the investment since most of that is going straight into the pockets of the arms industry.
Why is there any mystery here. They said they intend on ending their civil war and have shown no indication whatsoever that such a statement is only rhetorical or posturing. Taiwan has never tried to be independent of China. It still claims sovereignty over all of China.
If the US Confederates had retreated to Cuba and others had intervened on their behalf, while the Confederates still claimed dominion over a part of the USA, you can bet your ass the US would invade Cuba as soon as they had the opportunity. We can all decry the whole thing, but it is their conflict. If anything, we should be evacuating anyone and anything that needs to leave and capitulating without further involvement. Like if your neighbor and their spouse are arguing, stay out of it for the benefit of everyone. This is not some mate getting abused that needs help. This involves two bloody parties where all sides have done monstrous things and that needs to get resolved one way or another. Both can’t claim dominion over all. The past cannot be bowdlerized for convenience or exploitation for profit of western criminal capitalist abuse. No one needs to fight or die, but a resolution must be found.
Edit: Wow Lemmy is remarkably stupid to the point of incompetent ineptitude at basic fundamental history. Like wtf am I doing here in a room with this insane nonsense.
Except to actually make that a proper analogy, the confederacy would gave had to take over nearly all of the US, and the union would be in Cuba. In which case, yeah fuck those confederate bitches.
Also at this point it doesn’t matter. Taiwan is more or less internationally recognized as an independent country so they can both sit the fuck down.
