One of the US’s most senior military officers has warned wars in the Middle East and Ukraine create a risk of distraction for Australia’s most important military ally.
One of the United States’ most senior military officers has warned that wars in the Middle East and Ukraine could challenge America’s ability to project power and deter China in the Indo-Pacific.
“There’s no doubt that a dangerous world creates circumstances where resources can be strained. You know, we’ll wait and see what happens. What I’m most hopeful for is that this fight in the Middle East does not spread out into a much broader regional one. But there is that potential.” US President Joe Biden and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese reiterated ties between the two countries in Washington last week.China claims about 90 per cent of the South China Sea as its own but a 2016 adjudication by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague found Beijing had no claim to these waters. However, China has maintained its claim and built up a series of artificial islands.
Much of the Honolulu dialogue’s discussion focused on China’s rise and its ambitious plans to keep growing its navy to up to 450 vessels and assert its claims over the South China Sea. Eventually, Australia will be producing rockets with a range in excess of 500km, up from the 40km range the Army’s rockets currently have.
‘When you’re talking about big machines that are flying at very high speed … there is the potential for bad things to happen.’“Intercepts, they happen around the world every day. What makes theirs dangerous is there are intercepts and then they are just overly aggressive. When you’re talking about big machines that are flying at very high speed at a very high altitude, there is the potential, if you are unsafe, for bad things to happen.
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