Warning on weak Australian defence strategy

Pundits that offer weak solutions to Pacific Rim communist aggression are a dead weight on Australia's defence posture road map.

ANZUS works.

The communist threat has to know that Australia, the U.S., Singapore, South Korea, Japan, Vietnam, the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, and yes, even Indonesia see anyone offering verbal and written threats in regard to territory not theirs as unacceptable.

This article from today is a collection of nonsense that quotes some who, at he end of the day, are just communist appeasers.

Or, weak, wishful-thinkers.

Solid trade with China and a solid military deterrence against their aggressive behaviour can co-exist. Like the Soviets before them, Chinese communists only respect strength and despise weakness.

As for Australian military capability, well, authors of the above mentioned article don't seem to have a clue. When they can have a better grasp of these issues, then, they might be able to offer something resembling useful reporting.

Play nice now

Not mentioned in this piece is that communism only understands force.

That means we have to try to persuade Washington not to confront China, as it is doing now, but to work with it. We should also try to persuade China that it, too, must accept a continuing role for America in Asia. Both will have to do a lot of compromising.

Maybe the communists will act nice if we tell them to pretty-please, stop bullying the Philippines over South China Sea areas the communists have no claim over.

Meanwhile, communist appeasement continues...

From our Red Star Minister portfolio...

First things first

Interesting conversation here of how much appeasement is too much.

"We need to distinguish between containment, which is the real agenda of some, and hedging, which is a realist strategy and one, if properly explained, China can feel comfortable with and not threatened by, even if it doesn't like it," Raby says.

"We need to avoid giving Chinese nationalists, of which there are many, gratuitous ammunition (and) we ourselves should be clear about our intentions and predictable in our behaviour towards China."

Maybe if we act real nice to the communists they will respect us?

Yeah, there are a lot of Chinese "nationalists". Consider this:

The lead article the Chinese Communist Party newspaper Global Times on Tuesday contained an alarming call for a declaration of war against Vietnam and Philippines, two nations that in recent weeks launched the loudest protests against China’s sweeping maritime sovereignty claims over the South China Sea.

The fiery rhetoric of the article states that “the South China Sea is the best place for China to wage wars” because “of the more than 1,000 oil rigs there, none belongs to China; of the four airfields in the Spratly Islands, none belongs to China; once a war is declared, the South China Sea will be a sea of fire [with burning oil rigs]. Who will suffer the most from a war? Once a war starts there, the Western oil companies will flee the area, who will suffer the most?”

The article further calculates that “the wars should be focused on striking the Philippines and Vietnam, the two noisiest troublemakers, to achieve the effect of killing one chicken to scare the monkeys.”

As for fears of what China could do to the Australian economy, the current Australian PM and her staff are doing everything they can to destroy capitalism. That has to be addressed first before potential threats from the Chinese communists.