The Australian government's words may reflect real concerns about the possibility of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan a conflict that could ultimately involve the entire Asia region and even the US.
As military tensions rise in the Asia-Pacific region, Australia is commemorating the largest naval battle fought off its shores 79 years ago.The Battle of the Coral Sea, fought in waters southwest of the Solomon Islands and east of New Guinea from May 4 to 8 in 1942, marked one of the most significant conflicts of World War II.
“On this ANZAC Day, in the 70th year of our principal military alliance, let us remember the warnings of two American generals who had known war waged totally, and brutally: we must search always for the chance for peace amidst the curse of war, until we are faced with the only prudent, if sorrowful, course to send off, yet again, our warriors to fight the nation’s wars.
“Let there not be doubt war shakes confidence in a civilisation’s soul. Who could begrudge the sorrow of Europeans after the horror of the First World War? Yet, in their sorrow and their revulsion at the thought of another terrible bloodbath, they did not heed the drums of war which beat through the 1930s until too late they once again took up arms against Nazism and Fascism.
by Tyler Durden
The leaked content of
a fiery anti-China speech and secretive briefing to elite military personnel by one of Australia s top generals has landed on the front pages of major newspapers from Sydney to Melbourne to London on Tuesday. The confidential address issued by Major-General Adam Findlay, who was then commander of Australia s special forces and currently advises the Australian Defense Force, had
focused on a coming war with China which he said is a high likelihood . Publication of the speech s full key controversial contents is now threatening to plunge China-Australia relations past breaking point.
The April 2020 briefing given to the country s most elite special forces units was obtained and first published by
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In a speech to special forces soldiers last year, Major-General Adam Findlay told his troops they must prepare for the high likelihood of conflict with China.
Major-General Findlay, who was the commander of the special forces at the time but has since stepped down, said China was already engaged in grey zone conflict, or conflict that occurs in the area between war and peace.
The leak of the speech he made comes as the Department of Home Affairs secretary warned the “drums of war” were beating and the Australian government’s language on China has hardened.
Today on
Please Explain, Nathanael Cooper is joined by foreign affairs and national security correspondent Anthony Galloway to look at the growing tensions between Australia and China.