RAAF P8 Poseidon Back in May 2022, an RAAF P8 Poseidon maritime surveillance aircraft was tracking across disputed Chinese airspace in the South China Sea. A Chinese PLA J16 jet fighter, believed to have been dispatched from the Paracel Islands, intercepted the P8 issuing repeated warnings to leave the area. When the P8 did not change course, the PLA J16 released chaff (aluminium flakes), generally used to create a decoy image on enemy radar, in the path of the P8. Some of the chaff was ingested into the P8’s jet engines, which led to a loss of power. The P8 quickly returned to Clark Airforce Base in the Philippines, where it initially began its journey.
If you were an Australian living and working in Australia, your opinion might have some validity and weight. As you seem to have taken up residence in Thailand and not directly affected or involved in Australian life, it is probably not appropriate for you to be suggesting what Australia should or should not be doing, locally or internationally. It's not advisable to stand with one foot on the shore and the other on a boat.
Australia has been viewed and accepted by ASEAN as a very hospitable and desirable country to go to visit or study. But after Morrison decided to jettison all these in favour of American geopolitical ambitions, or more correctly, to be America's lackey. What has happened? Morrison decided to pick a fight with China for no acceptable reasons. Barbs of hatred and xenophobia fuelled by similar American propaganda. Australia bought 2 billion USD of old Abrahms tanks which were immediately kept in storage in SA. Then it bought used nuclear submarines for almost 400 billion USD which will be commandeered and crewed by Americans because Australia has not thought of having these at all . It has also started to fly over the SCS as close as possible to china just to provoke it. Does this make it a big power player now and in the near future? No. It merely means it is just a lackey obeying its masters orders to the detriment of ordinary Australians. To be an ally of US is fatal as Ukraine and Germany found out. Australia is best when it was 20 years ago - no threat to anyone and not threatened by anyone. Australia does not have it takes to be anything but that.
If you were an Australian living and working in Australia, your opinion might have some validity and weight. As you seem to have taken up residence in Thailand and not directly affected or involved in Australian life, it is probably not appropriate for you to be suggesting what Australia should or should not be doing, locally or internationally. It's not advisable to stand with one foot on the shore and the other on a boat.
Australia has been viewed and accepted by ASEAN as a very hospitable and desirable country to go to visit or study. But after Morrison decided to jettison all these in favour of American geopolitical ambitions, or more correctly, to be America's lackey. What has happened? Morrison decided to pick a fight with China for no acceptable reasons. Barbs of hatred and xenophobia fuelled by similar American propaganda. Australia bought 2 billion USD of old Abrahms tanks which were immediately kept in storage in SA. Then it bought used nuclear submarines for almost 400 billion USD which will be commandeered and crewed by Americans because Australia has not thought of having these at all . It has also started to fly over the SCS as close as possible to china just to provoke it. Does this make it a big power player now and in the near future? No. It merely means it is just a lackey obeying its masters orders to the detriment of ordinary Australians. To be an ally of US is fatal as Ukraine and Germany found out. Australia is best when it was 20 years ago - no threat to anyone and not threatened by anyone. Australia does not have it takes to be anything but that.