PLA Navy news, pics and videos
- Thread starter Jeff Head
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Great.
Let me quote one of the sentences:
Thanks for providing a precedent, Australia!
China should also conduct her own "regional presence deployment" by sailing PLAN warships into the Solomon Sea on a regular basis, and position their warships right in between the Solomon Islands and Australia. Better still if the PLAN warships could do friendly port visits to Honaira.
This should send a "You better don't touch my little brother Solomon. Remember that my eyes are always on you!" message to Canberra.
Or even better, China should also sail her PLAN warships right through the Coral Sea and Tasman Sea, then make port visits to New Zealand. This is considering that out of the Five Eyes, New Zealand is still the most China-friendly among all other Sinophobic members.
Such port visits to Wellington can also give an up-yours to Canberra, which is convenient as Australia had just rejected China's 4 fundemental demands for repairing Sino-Australian relations.
Mid transition as in , during this period it might be chaotic then when the final intention has been realized .
I agree with you , that any thing right now is speculation , but during the transition from the type 07 to 21 it will be even harder to guess , cause during the same clip they might cut in the clip from pre transition with clips post transition there for creating the feeling of 3 uniforms were used on the ship at the same time.
Keeping PLAN crew fed and happy...
Even the Solomon Islands are 2,000km away from Australia, and the Aussies act like the Chinese are stepping onto their front porch.
Better tit-for-tat for China would be to sail through the Bass Strait between Tasmania and Victoria, then they'll know what it feels like for China to have foreign warships yo-yoing up and down the Taiwan Strait -
A few hilarious excerpts -
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If Australia can own 200-kilometre-wide Bass Strait, why can't China own the Taiwan Strait?
Actually, most of Bass Strait doesn't belong to Australia. China could send an aircraft carrier with a bunch of destroyers through it, if it liked, because a global agreement on maritime territory says so.
If we sent so much as a navy dinghy through the Taiwan Strait, we could probably expect another round of trade sanctions from Beijing.
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But all this cuts both ways. If we can go close to China, China can come close to us.
The huffing and puffing we see in the media when a Chinese warship approaches Australia is sheer nonsense. Such vessels have a perfect right to be there.
Peter Dutton made a hypocrites of us when he objected to the arrival of Chinese intelligence ship Haiwangxing off WA just before the election. As defence minister at the time, he called this an "aggressive act" - just the sort of language that China uses when telling other countries to clear off.
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A Chinese ship would, in fact, be quite entitled to sit off the end of the runway of our main fighter base, RAAF Williamtown, at Newcastle, happily collecting radio signals.
But I bet we wouldn't try doing that off a Chinese airbase.
Don't understand why this is that big of a deal? Australia is doing something that's legal and china is following them. It's not any different than china circling around Japan and getting followed by the Japanese.
If china wants to assert itself, 055 and spy ship can take long deployment around Australia and have helicopters look for Australian submarines. There is no reason that china cannot do it's own freedom of navigation operations.
I've paid good money for worse looking Chinese buffets than that.