Chinese warships enter Australia’s economic zone, new images of fleet released
- Three Chinese Navy ships have moved into Australia’s economic zone, causing flight diversions.
- The New Zealand Defence Force has released new photos of the fleet as they continue to monitor their movements.
- The Chinese military admitted to conducting “live fire” drills which caused flight path disruptions.
Defence Minister Judith Collins was forced to respond to a Daily Blog question…
China navy ships: Collins ‘aware’ of nuclear submarine reports
Defence Minister Judith Collins says she’s aware of suggestions the Chinese navy ships in the Tasman Sea might be accompanied by a nuclear submarine.
…with the ships sailing deeper south the question of resupply by a submarine becomes legitimate.
Will the Chinese circumnavigate Australia? Tasmania or go the other way and sail around NZ to dock in the Cooks?
As China does this right after signing. screw deal with the Cooks, they launch an unprecedented live firing around Taiwan…
Taiwan says China set up ‘live-fire training’ zone off its coast without warning
…This is an extraordinary provocation from China.
Some of our woke are so conflicted with criticising anyone who isn’t white that they are claiming NZs anger at the Cook Islands is colonialism and our reaction to China live-firing in the Tasman Sea is somehow hypocritical because we support ships through the South China Sea.
To live test in the Tasman Sea is not the same in any way shape or form of the West sailing through the disputed South China Sea!
The South China Sea is an incredibly important Trade Route which International Law protects! We in NZ support that because it’s linked to the importance of those trade routes – THERE IS NO TRADE ROUTE FOR CHINA IN THE TASMAN SEA!
To sail all the way down here to live test weapon fire is a provocation directly to our interests.
The question remains, will this stunt be the end and China pull their ships back or will they continue on and sail under Australia or sail under NZ and dock in the Cook Islands?
Look, you can debate the awfulness of white colonialism until the cows come home, but don’t pretend that China is somehow benign FFS! It’s an authoritarian Communist regime with an appalling human rights record whose size and power will crush the Pacific with their never ending demand for natural resources.
Yes white colonialism is terrible, but jumping from that into the arms of the Chinese is no win for anyone other than the Chinese.
China is in the Tasman Sea doing live firing drills, wake up sleepy hobbits.
We are New Zealanders, we should not be hostage to Washington OR Beijing.
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New Zealand depends on the USA for security. New Zealand depends on China for trade. Which way will the frog jump? Or will it just boil dry?
The US and its puppetmasters are a threat to New Zealand’s security. Just look at how the ‘counterjihad’ ideology spread by Juliet Moses inspired the Christchurch terror attack.
No.
In any case China are operating fully under international law, so what do you propose NZ do about it?
To quote Kissinger: “to be an enemy of the US is dangerous and to be a friend of the US is fatal”. It was true then and even more so now. You only have to look at the state of the EU to understand what he meant.
So we’re protecting Chinese Ports and Trade from the Chinese?
Exactly. If China shut off the South China Sea trade routes they would be the first to suffer.
They could just… do that though. Or are you suggesting that the RNZN should sail into Chinese ports and force them to trade?
Now the Chinese have established their maritime sovereignty in the South we can expect the large scale harvesting of seals and penguins for the tables of Mark’s relatives.
Hahah, absolute nonsense. The reason the US and its puppets sail through the South (China) Sea is ‘protection’ of trade routes in the sense that paying the Mafia money is ‘protection’.
Hopefully China will follow the principles of the treaty and act accordingly…Having a Waitangi Tribunal should be enough to scare them away……
I guarantee you if NZ wants alliances with the US it will come with a deal of allowing Trump’s own gold plated nuclear submarines floating into Auckland Harbour.