China Seeks To Encompass Australia With Missiles

This report from Crikey, which has no idea about international relations, is so alarming that all Australians need to take pause.

The story led in places such as The Australian Financial Review and the ABC overnight after Defence Minister Richard Marles came out and said he’d spoken to Indonesia’s defence minister, who rejected the reports. “I have spoken to my counterpart, Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin, the minister for defence, and he has said to me in the clearest possible terms, reports of the prospect of Russian aircraft operating from Indonesia are simply not true,” Marles said.

The ABC reports Sjamsoeddin told Marles he had not received any Russian request to access the Manuhua Air Force Base, although the broadcaster was keen to highlight “that doesn’t rule out the possibility it was raised at a more junior level”.

The broadcaster also highlights that “deepening military ties between Indonesia and Russia are not new: in fact, diplomats from both countries have been speaking about them for years”. The two countries held naval exercises together last year, and Moscow’s ambassador to Jakarta, Sergei Tolchenov, has said military cooperation was “integral” to the countries’ relations, the ABC recalls.

Always remember that the first, second and third rules of diplomacy are to lie, lie and lie for your country.

The gormless and naive Crikey never seems to appreciate this, so it makes all of the wrong judgments about international relations.

Putin’s “no limits relationship with China is the context for this story and it is downright alarming as such.

Indonesia and Russia go approach again to the early years of the Chilly Warfare when President Sukarno maintained strategic neutrality however, all alongside, bought Russian-made weapons and continues to take action at the moment.

The coup that put in Common Suharto swung the nation again in direction of Western allies and suppressed communists, however the relationship with Russia was not frozen out, and it remained a considerable provider of arms.

It isn’t in any respect past the realm of risk that Indonesia would contemplate basing Russian plane at the moment, and it might virtually actually not inform us that if it was into consideration.

Indonesia has no love misplaced for Australia.

If so, then the Sino/Russian bloc is making a major effort to construct a navy cordon to Australia’s north that features the aim of isolating sea routes from the US, and establishing a short-notice pressure projection functionality immediately into the Australian continent, together with, seemingly, nuclear-armed Russian plane which have beforehand patrolled as near Australia as Papua.

Pacific Islands are constructing blue-water Chinese language ports. Bougainville is an open Chinese language proxy. Chinese language cash is sloshing across the Pacific as US money withdraws. The Chinese language navy is doing metropolis destruction missile drills throughout Australia.

China has already claimed all maritime areas with the “9 sprint line”.