The coronavirus pandemic may turn out to be the least of our worries in 2020 following the issuing of an “extraordinary warning” of a possible conflict with China says Sky News host SharriMarkson.
The coronavirus pandemic may turn out to be the least of our worries in 2020 following the issuing of an “extraordinary warning” of a possible conflict with China says Sky News host Sharri Markson. Ms Markson said tensions “are soaring” between the US and China currently. Meanwhile, Australia’s defence experts are starting to warn about a conflict with China that would likely draw in Australia, she said.
It follows comments made by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s Peter Jennings who recently told Sky News a military exchange, perhaps in the form of “a shooting of an aircraft out of the sky or a sinking of a ship, is actually high”. He said China is pushing against Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and other South-east Asian Countries. “It’s a dangerous time,” he said. Ms Markson said, “a pandemic may turn out to the least of our worries in 2020”.
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