China has issued a warning to Australia after its involvement in the South China Sea dispute, stating that Australia will become the target of the PLA (People's Liberation Army). This comes as an Australian warship joined forces with the US and Japanese navies to assert territorial rights in the region.
China has promised Australia will become the “ PLA ’s target” after a move in the South China Sea that angered Beijing.Beijing says it launched “combat patrols” at the weekend as an Australia n warship joined US and Japanese forces asserting the territorial rights of The Philippines in the
Australia HMAS Warramunga has joined a united stand against Beijing’s territorial ambitions. Picture: Philippinesand Maritime Militia using water cannons, lasers, obstacles, and the threat of ramming to prevent supplies reaching a World War II landing ship used as a symbol of Manila’s sovereignty over portions of the Spratly Islands.
The weekend’s “Multilateral Maritime Cooperative Activity” manoeuvres reportedly demonstrated anti-submarine warfare techniques and tested co-ordination and co-operation between the ships and supporting aircraft of all four countries. “Finally, Beijing has ramped up propaganda explicitly depicting the Philippines as the troublemaker, a shift from previous narratives that mostly blamed tensions on American interference.”
“Beijing’s narrative is that every time the situation escalates, it is due to its opponents’ “provocations”, and so it bears no responsibility for any of its aggressions,” Stanford University security analyst Ray Powell told Radio Free Asia. This involved practising operations against “armed fishing boats harassing China in its sea areas,” a Ministry of Defence statement asserts.The ðµðMarcos Jr administration should notice this: ð¨ð³PLA organized combat training exercises in simulated strikes of âenemyâ armed fishing boats harassing China in its sea areas.
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