CHINA views Australia as a threat to its planned domination of the South Pacific and will continue its aggression for years to come, an expert has warned. Former deputy secretary of strategy for the Defence Department Peter Jennings said the Chinese government feared that Australia held too much influence over the world’s major democracies.
AUSTRALIA’S military build-up is on track to dwarf Germany, France and Britain as it responds to Chinese hostility in the Indo-Pacific region.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison last week announced a massive war chest taking annual military spending from this year’s US$35b up to US$61.2b by 2030.
This is approaching Russia’s current defence budget of US$61.6b a year.
AUSTRALIA should prepare for a Chinese military strike as experts warn of a dangerous escalation of “gangster diplomacy”.
Any attack would most likely occur with the sinking or ramming of an Australian naval vessel in the South China Sea, according to Prof Joseph Siracusa who heads the International Diplomacy Department at Melbourne’s RMIT University.
