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