By James O’Neill
There was a recent meeting between the Australian minister for defence and his Chinese counterpart. It was the first ministerial-level meeting between the two sides for nearly 3 years. Relations between the two countries had been frozen following some undiplomatic remarks by the former Australian Minister for foreign affairs, Marise Payne. She had accused China of being the country of source of the pandemic then (and now) confronting the world. It was not only a singularly inept comment by Payne, it also lacked an evidential basis. More recent research points the finger squarely at the United States as being the source of the virus, taken to China by the Americans at the time of the world military games.
Apart from the diplomatic freeze applied by the Chinese, they also imposed restrictions on a range of Australian exports, estimated to have cost this country at least $20 billion a year in export earnings. The Chinese also imposed a list of conditions upon Australia as the price of renewing relations, and while the demands have not been abandoned, they were not mentioned at the recent meeting of the two countries’ ministers. The gesture by the Chinese is not to be disregarded.
Unfortunately, Australia has been making other gestures that are not designed to improve relations between the two countries. Foremost among them are Australia’s insistence on obeying the wishes of the Americans in providing support for the latters continuing provocations in the South China Sea. This, we are told without a hint of questioning or irony, is in support of the so-called freedom of navigation exercises by American and allied ships and planes in the South China Sea.
This ludicrous description of the frankly provocative exercises is maintained although nobody is able to point to a single instance of the Chinese interfering in the free movement of civilian shipping in the South China Sea. Given that some 80% of China’s own sea-born exports pass through the South China Sea it would be a spectacular own goal for the Chinese to interfere in civilian shipping.
United States – Australian military activities in the region are clearly intended as a provocation against the Chinese. In terms of annoying Australia’s principal international customer, more than twice as much sold there than the next biggest market and constituting 40% of all Australian exports (even with the current bans it must rate as a spectacular own goal).
It gets worse, however. Australia insists on freedom of navigation as its rationale for these blatantly provocative actions in the South China Sea. One only has to recall the agitation expressed by some Australian politicians at the presence in international waters of the Chinese warship off the West Australian coast. Certainly, none of Australia’s mainstream media, radio, television, or print, thought to point out the stunning hypocrisy of protest in the perfectly legal presence of a Chinese warship off the Australian coast, but failing utterly to point out the provocative nature of Australia’s warships in the South China Sea, at least as close to the Chinese mainland as the Chinese ship was to Australia’s territory (in fact the Australian ships were closer).
The Australian government has just paid out to the French shipping company the sum of $835 million in compensation for the cancelled deal to buy French-built submarines for Australia. This was a deal entered into, and cancelled, by the previous unlamented Morrison government who have committed Australia to purchase instead a fleet of the United States/United Kingdom-built nuclear submarines. The cost of that deal is estimated to be $170 billion, although if you believe they can be obtained for that sum I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
The actual cost of those submarines will be only part of the total expense they will incur. They have to be serviced, and Australia currently does not have the technical expertise to conduct that servicing. We will either engage in an expensive training program to provide the expertise, or will be dependent upon the British and Americans to do the servicing for us. And what is the purpose of these submarines? You guessed it. Too cruise in Chinese waters as part of the United States “defence” program.
Unfortunately, the new Labor government seems as committed to this harebrained scheme as its predecessors. When the submarines finally arrive, which we are told is at least the late 2030s, what magic ball is the Australian government using to predict the military balance of that date? It seems highly improbable that the United States will still be in a position to have a fleet of ships threatening China at that time.
What is to stop the Chinese from having their own nuclear-powered and armed ships patrolling the waters off the Australian and United States coastlines by that date? Having Chinese and Russian submarines and aircraft in a position to strike any target in the United States at will is a new experience for the Americans who have not had to fight a foreign force on their territory since the British were defeated finally in 1783.
The Russians and Chinese will not even have to invade the United States as the devastation can be caused entirely from a distance. The use of Australian submarines in any such conflict will be less than zero. Apart from that obsolescence, the supposed powers of the submarines to operate clandestinely in Chinese waters is also highly unlikely to survive technological improvements in Chinese defence capabilities in the 20 years before Australia takes delivery of the submarines.
Australia seems likely to be equipping its Navy, at vast expense, for a war that will never be fought on the terms for which the submarines will be designed. Rather than making hostile, hugely expensive, and ultimately useless gestures against the Chinese, would Australia’s efforts not be better directed to pursuing a policy of friendship?
Look at the map. Australia sits at the southern end of Asia. That is where the country’s future lies (and most of its current trade). That reality was recognised in part by the Prime Minister’s successful recent visit to Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populous country at 270 million people and one that has been systematically ignored by successive Australian governments. The Prime Minister’s visit signals a change of attitude. It should be built upon rather than pursuing hugely expensive and ultimately useless submarines. That policy, aimed as it is at placating the Americans, is not in Australia’s long-term interests. The quicker that is realised and policies adjusted accordingly, the better for all of us.
*Geophysical analyst. He can be contacted at jamesoneill83@icloud.com
When I saw the headline I wondered who would have written this article. Surprise, surprise it’s James urging us to throw in our lot with the CCP again. Let me give you a tip on how non-cowards think, you don’t go along with an evil bastard because you’re scared of them.
Well James, much of what you forecast is correct.
History is clear, countries with power invade and thieve just as criminals carry out home invasions.
It never ends, in every car park there is a thug to steal a old ladies groceries and her vehicle.
China is no exception.
Well at least you are grounding your credit investment in a great ‘Chinese social credit score’.
Enjoy it and reap the freedoms to be granted with compliance.
“YOU WILL OWN NOTHING AND BE HAPPY”.[uncle Klaus]
“Now about the useless eaters, they can play computer games” [ paraphrasing that fellow Harari]
Now James how about facing a full toss in the first over, for those who do not want to have such commie control freaks as in China, running our country and f’g us.
I think it’s time to differentiate between the CCP and elite Chinese, who are only just maintaining control of China; and the ordinary people of China. In the latter category, I include the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, who flatly refuse to punish the thousands of protestors who object to corruption, cronyism, nepotism, falling incomes, and official fees. In a word, oppression.
We need to be mindful of ordinary workers and families and, in point of fact, we should be running our own websites that seek alliance with these.
This is in stark contrast to James’s presentation of the Chinese as a single entity.
Meanwhile, before all this gets out of hand, why isn’t everyone calling out the insanity of US missiles being launched from the NT.
Ned, I’m very confused as to your claims of, and I quote, “for those who do not want to have such commie control freaks as in China, running our country and f’g us.” Unquote. How exactly are the alleged ” commie control freaks as in China” running our country and F’g us ? From where I sit, our very own Government from BOTH sides are doing a pretty good job of that right now, and I fail to see how the Chinese could ever do a better job. In fact those very same alleged control freaks are the ones responsible for the riches our country has been racking in whilst the rest of the World is getting poorer and poorer. Or do you propose we follow the European Union, and impose sanctions, that are proving to be more destructive to the Europeans, than the Russians who they imposed them upon ? Without the trade we conduct with China, all Australians would suffer big time financially, is that what you want ??
Let’s not cut off our noses, to spite our face, hey ? Why is it always neccessary in the Western World, to require an enemy to fire our vitriol at all the time ? The thing about Australia, is we pretend we are a nation of consequence, when in reality we are nothing but a warmed up fart on the Global scale. What has Australia ever produced on a World stage ? We are incapable of even developing a defensive military force. We can’t manufacture anything of value in that regard, even now, we’ve cancelled contracts for Helicopters that we purchased from the E.U. to buy a new fleet from the U.S. Never mind the fact these EURO choppers still, have 15-20 years of service left. Apparently we are too stupid to build our own, or simply too incompetent. Compare that to the Chinese, L.O.L. who can, and do, build whatever they want. These are the very same people you accuse of being incompetent, yet their abilities to build/design and bring to completion, leaves Australian abilities dead in the water. Even our own politicians recognise this, recently one was recorded as saying, “our engineers can’t even build a canoe let alone a warship”. He was dead on too. Even Iran, a nation that has had illegal sanctions placed upon it for over 30 years, can design/build/operate weapons that Australia can only have wet dreams about. How is this possible ???? if we become a serious pain in the arse of the Chinese, I’m confident, they’ll deal with it in a very painfull way for all of us, and I cannot ever see the Yanks coming to pull us out of the fire. So what are WE going to do about it, besides mouth off ?
Hey guys, the greedy yanks, royal wanks, and swissy banks and their puppets have just poisoned the planet and you worry about the chinese? How many bombs have they let off lately??? NONE. They’re into building bridges….and walls! Keep pressing buttons and one day it’ll be the red one. None of this is edifying or gives the slightest solution to the problems we face. I’m ashamed to be “White Western” . MARY come back! the blokes have taken over and have lost their moral compass!!! Disgusting, racist, violent rubbish. Get a grip!
Eddy, I closed off after your few first sentences.
If you are confused, try thinking ahead to what, that is present in China, will be our future if we allow communist china’s society dictates by control freaks to be implemented here.
Simples, de-confuse your thinking.
The same global banksters kartel that supplied and fitted the ‘social credit score system’ in China are now enforcing it on all western nations.
Normally I would not comment, however:
Factual errors
!) The military games was well known about right at the start
@) China cost us nothing in exports, they just ran out of money, crayfish and wine went early on, how about the barley, we hear people are starving now because of Ukraina
#) The CCP is provoking in the South China Sea, not too popular with Philippines who are the rightful owners, and Indonesia now moving the capital to Borneo before that is seized
$) CCP ships have been ramming Vietnamese, and CCP has been pestering Taiwan
%) Exports were nothing much last century, we were looking at the Japanese and “4 dragons” back then (Korea, Taiwan, British HongKong and Singapore). Only HongKong packaged up goods from the Chinese mainland. NOW we would be better off engaging ASEAN countries in particular Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Indonesia. CCP China is not important to us, just as Russia has shown, Europe is not important to it. But they want our iron ore.
^) Chinese BURNED THEIR FLEET 500 YEARS AGO – they have no claim on anything.
&) Submarines are for insurance policy purposes and the concept is already obsolete when you look at the time frame. Submersible drones are here already. The entire submarines story cannot even hope to be guessed at by following the MainStreamMedia reporting. Rest assured the reality will be something quite different.
*) Unfortunately “America” has been taken over by the DeepState. We should be helping the USA rid itself of the DeepState in any way we can, because the USA has a better constitution than other countries, whatever its faults. Its faults may be traced to human nature, in particular corruption, so can’t ever be permanently sterilised. It’s just an ongoing thing. The Chinese constitution by contrast is unknown to me but demonstrably rubbish.
Chrysler jet car ( probably better to start around 11:00 or 12:00 )
These engines went on to serve in the tomahawk missiles
But wait there’s more … Wuhan strikes again !!! Plasma jet engines (21st century)
Worth a look if you like physics or if you’re apprehensive about Wuhan
Coming soon to a theatre near you:
The Anglo-American Origins of Color Revolutions and NED-Matthew Ehret.
https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/the-anglo-american-origins-of-color?utm_source=email&s=r
That’s an outstanding piece, Sandra. I sure did not know that Ted Shackley had real standing.
Now here’s Dinsesh, replying to the Jan 6 “select committee” which is a total disgrace to Congress.
The US DeepState appears to have many links to the CCP, as we see with Biden, when he sold the equipment from Afghanistan to the CCP, there is clear evidence. His out-of-control offspring, picking up huge sums of money from China and Ukraina, demonstrates there is no future for the Biden dynasty, outside of China, when it all falls apart. Hunter Biden will jump in his Lear jet and shoot off somewhere leaving his bank accounts in China and his reserves in some tax havens. Presumably all the corrupt politicians who work as part of the DeepState have similar offshore arrangements. It all exten.ds to Australia, where “Chief Health Officers” push the corporate product (dodgy injections) along with crooked Health Ministers and other bought out political party figures. In the last Australian election, the outcome was already determined well before the votes were cast. The entire parliament has become “just for show”. This is not off-the-cuff opinion, I was there closely observing the election, and interfaced with ministers and candidates. I caught the vibe very clearly. The blue party was taking a dive. It was the red party’s turn. These people don’t think for themselves, they are actors. They are all directed. When you watch a movie or TV show the actor is for example defusing a bomb, or driving a car off a cliff. No he’s not !!! He is pretending to do those things. It’s the same with our sold out politicians. When they all lease the Port of Darwin to the CCP for 99 years, they do it because they are corrupt and sold out to the globalised DeepState. Anything they “decide” to do is already think-tanked elsewhere and spoon fed to the corrupt political leadership. It’s all a show. Enjoy your interest rate hikes and flow-on recession, folks.
The social credit system is high tech communism. The agenda is to create two classes, those who control and those whose ‘freedom’ is slavery.
The damnation of totalitarianism are the 10 abominations;
Abolition of private property.
Heavy progressive income tax.
Abolition of rights of inheritance.
Confiscation of land.
Central Bank.
Government control of communications and agriculture.
Government ownership of factories and agriculture.
Government control of Labour.
Corporate farms, regional planning.
Government control of education.
We are being replaced by an oppressive, dystopian, high tech ‘surveillance state’. The CCP in China are the role model because they have the most advanced technocratic tyranny in the world.
Well James,
Go for it and move up to your heavenly paradise.