Daily Review 01/11/2016

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    Well, there are these two stories in the Guardian, which don’t seem entirely unrelated:

    Australia is considering joint naval patrols with Indonesia in the contested South China Sea, the Australian foreign minister, Julie Bishop confirmed on Tuesday…

    Australia has previously drawn criticism from China for running surveillance flights over disputed islands in the South China Sea and supporting US freedom of navigation exercises there.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/01/south-china-sea-australia-considers-joint-naval-patrols-with-indonesia

    China showed its Chengdu J-20 stealth fighter in public for the first time on Tuesday, opening the country’s biggest meeting of aircraft makers and buyers with a show of its military clout…

    Unofficial shots of a J-20 prototype fuelled discussion about the region’s power balance when first glimpsed by planespotters in 2010. Experts say China has been refining designs in the hope of narrowing a military gap with Washington…

    Aircraft that are already scheduled to be on display alongside the latest Chinese weapon systems, radar and drones include the Xian Y-20 strategic airlifter, and what organisers say isthe largest amphibious plane now in production, the AG600.

    The flying boat is officially promoted as a fire-fighting or search and rescue plane. But analysts note the AG600 – first unveiled 10 days after a Hague tribunal ruled against China’s claim to parts of the South China Sea in July – is well suited to resupplying military outposts in the disputed area.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/01/china-unveils-j-20-stealth-jet-fighter-in-show-of-military-might

    I hope that our government doesn’t have the daft idea of sending either of the frigates into that simmering cauldron. One of them is just back from RIMPAC where they’ve been learning to integrate with other navies.

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      If I’m not mistaken, the US will be putting Australia up to this.

      There is no national advantage for Australia to militarily antagonise its largest trading partner, China.

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        except, like, two regional powers shoring up their buffers against an expansionist superpower on the off chance that their main bulwark – the other superpower – is going to be led by an isolationist idiot…

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          There’s probably also an element of Indonesia and Australia becoming wary of the rapprochement between Duterte’s Philippines and China (Northern Indonesia and Southern Philippines being adjacent archipelagos). This was also in the Guardian yesterday, but wasn’t so obviously linked as the other two stories appeared to be:

          The US state department halted the planned sale of 26,000 assault rifles to the Philippines’ national police…

          Earlier this month, Duterte told President Barack Obama to “go to hell” and said the US had refused to sell some weapons to his country, but he did not care because Russia and China were willing suppliers.

          https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/01/us-halts-sale-of-26000-assault-rifles-to-philippines-police-amid-human-rights-concerns

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      A classic and classy muttonbird comment. Nothing like starting the day with a bit of objectification of women huh.

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