China Appears To Be Adding Australia to Its List of Harassment Targets
What China seems to be saying with its war games near Australia is: If you’re challenging our air space over the South China Sea, which belongs to us, then we can show the flag in what are plainly international waters near you.
Now it’s Australia’s turn: The Chinese, forever harassing the Philippines and Taiwan, are going for Australia too.
They’ve begun on an almost modest note. Out in the Tasman Sea about 150 miles off Australia’s southeast coast, three Chinese warships — a frigate, a cruiser, and a resupply vessel — have been having fun playing war games with one another
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