If
the US and the UK help Australia acquire the cruising capability of
nuclear-powered submarines, this will effectively legalize the
acquisition of nuclear-powered submarines by all countries. This also
means the legalization of international export of related technology. As
Washington stirs up great power competition, more regions will be
involved in rising tensions. Possessing nuclear-powered submarines will
become a universal temptation. The world needs to prepare for the
arrival of a "nuclear-powered submarine fever."
Australia has
turned itself into an adversary of China. It is now escalating its
confrontation with China by conducting nuclear-powered submarine patrols
that are clearly targeted at China. However, no matter how Australia
arms itself, it is still a running dog of the US.
As Australia
participates in the US-led strategic siege of China and acts with
bravado to show its allegiance to the US, and takes the most prominent
position in the US' anti-China strategy, especially by being militarily
assertive, then Canberra will most likely become a target of Beijing's
countermeasures to send a warning to others. Thus, Australians troops
are also most likely to be the first batch of Western soldiers to waste
their lives in the South China Sea.
Recently, some in Canberra
proposed an Australian missile defense system. Beijing believes this is
necessary, because Canberra is intended to send troops to the Taiwan
Straits if a war breaks out there. Australian Secretary of the
Department of Home Affairs Mike Pezzullo in April warned that "drums of
war" were beating in a message to his staff. He said that Australia must
be prepared "to send off, yet again, our warriors to fight," according
to ABC News. Once the Australian army fights the People's Liberation
Army in the Taiwan Straits or the South China Sea, military targets in
Australia will inevitably become a target hit by Chinese missiles. Since
Australia has become an anti-China spearhead, the country should
prepare for the worst.
Anonymous
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Countries with territorial issues with China are not even doing this, Australia with none is doing so obviously at the behest of US.
Indonesia has a good response to this AUKUS new deal and alliance but Singapore is terribly diplomatic. Japan, the yellow US lapdog welcome it.
China leaders are chess grandmasters strategists - they probably would already have anticipated .AUKUS scenario as one of many possible future scenaios in their contingencies planning and have countermeasures in place.
China should sell nuclear submarines to Iran, barter trade for Iranian oil; help North Korea circumvent US sanctions and help Kim develop N.Korean nuclear subs in the arms race..
Japan is terribly anti China. This has been the history since the days of the opium war and their alliance with the Western powers in dividing China into their own sphere of influence.
One reason is therefore their fear of the revenge of the atrocities they committed against China and most of Asia. It is a guilty conscience that they never got rid of.
The second reason is the pace with which China overtook them in GDP growth over the last twelve years. From 2008 onwards when China had a GDP of US$4 plus trillion compared to Japan's US$5 plus trillion, the most shocking wake up call for them was that within the space of 12 years, the GDP of China is now three times the size of Japan's. Japan's GDP was stagnant at US$5 plus trillion, and remain at the same level as in 2008. This shows that, like the USA, Japan has been outcompeted by China and will be cannibalised by China in all areas.
Japan dominated the world in car production, consumer products, electronics, and even in the gaming industry. Today where does Japan stand in consumer products, TVs, handphones, computers, all of which had been cannibalised by South Korea and China. Even their last icon, the car industry is facing stiff competition from China, USA and Europe.
Iron ore tumbles 20% in worst week since 2008 financial crisis
Prices sink to $100 a tonne as China curbs steel production
Iron ore has endured one of its worst weekly performances on record as Chinese steel mills dumped the commodity in response to government production curbs and a cooling property market.
The steelmaking raw material, which hit a record high above $230 a tonne in May, traded at $100.80 on Friday, down 22 per cent over the week, according to a price assessment by S&P Global Platts.
The last time it suffered a sell-off of this magnitude was during the financial crisis in 2008, analysts said.
Amid simmering diplomatic tensions with Australia, the world’s biggest producer of iron ore, the Chinese government is taking a more active role in curbing steel output as the year’s end approaches, according to analysts and traders.
“It’s quite a brutal policy to roll out,” said Tom Price, analyst at Liberum, a London-based brokerage. “No one believed they would do it but it looks like they are going to.”
The dramatic collapse in the iron ore price will also have a big impact on major mining houses, which have been paying record dividends to shareholders on the back of booming profits from their iron ore businesses.
Shares in Anglo American and Rio Tinto endured the largest falls on London’s FTSE 100 index on Friday after UBS slashed its earnings forecasts and advised clients to sell.
It is time for Iran, Syria, Cuba and perhaps Venezuela to go nuclear. China and Pakistan now have an agreement to bolster Pakistan's nuclear capabilities. China must also beef up North Korea's nuclear deterrent. What is sauce for the goose is also sauce for the gander.
What the USA and Australia can do, so can others. Who can now say who can and cannot go nuclear? It cannot always be the unilateral decision of one country to dictate that scenario. Those that do not wish to be perpetually bullied and stepped upon, follow the North Koreans.
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