Trade between the nations continued from then on, with Australia providing a range of raw materials, but never at a particularly impressive rate. Then China’s market reforms took off in the 1990s, and with them an unprecedented appetite for coal and ores of all sorts. By the 2010s China was Australia’s biggest trading partner, a hungry buyer not just of bulk materials but of high-end seafood and beefy shiraz.
As an arms deal it is big; at least eight nuclear submarines suggests a contract value in the tens of billions of dollars. As a strategic shift it is bigger. The pact is America’s most dramatic and determined move yet to counter what it and others in the Indo-Pacific region see as a growing threat from China. As Stephen Walt of Harvard University writes, “it is a move designed to discourage or thwart any future Chinese bid for regional hegemony.
To go from a diesel-electric fleet to a nuclear fleet is thus a change of strategy, not just of propulsion. It provides a way to project power from the shipping lanes which feed the all-important Malacca Strait to the waters off Taiwan. Add on the capacity to launch much longer-range missiles—a submarine could deliver missiles to China’s mainland while sitting to the east of the Philippines—and the country has a greatly expanded offensive capacity.
China’s intimidation of other countries which claim parts of the sea, including Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam, has largely been carried out through “grey zone” activities by the coastguard, survey vessels and fleets of Chinese fishing vessels forming “maritime militias”. These activities can be highly effective.
Vietnam and Malaysia have now followed the Philippines in lodging objections to China’s territorial claims with the. Mr Hayton contends that, overall, China’s insular terraforming and flagrant bullying have left it with less influence than it had to begin with.’s members and reshape the role some countries in the group play in regional security.
It can become a target of Chinese nukes.
The problem is that the owner also borrows money from China to pay the crew. How much wealthy dog food will be given to the kangaroo?🦘
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'...has now a base...'?
You write as if this is anything new. Pine Gap has been around since 1970.
The biggest truth that the Chinese learned from the Soviet Union after 1979 is that the role of claws and claws in the military is not as good as smegma, and the ultimate decision power is the economy. No money, you shit! Kneel down.😆
This goes back to the way it was in WWII. Australia was a huge base of operations for US Surface and Sub Forces, and Army/Army Air. My Dad served on a sub tender that was based for a while in Freemantle.
Really? I just learned Australia DOESN'T EVEN OWN its armour (like M1A1 tank), but LEASES them off USA! How dumb is that!! PLUS we never built facilities to repair/refurbish them!!
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They already had a base for operations in Australia - for years. The base is so fully protected in fact, that no Australian can set foot on the property - not even the Prime Minister.
No, it just antagonised China and France making things worse for us.
The cyber war is using drones in Afghanistan !
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