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Australia to spend $270b building larger military to prepare for 'poorer, more dangerous' world and rise of China

EEP! I got it a teeny weeny bit wrong
Not a quarter of a Billion in Australian defence spending
270 Billion. EEP!



https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-30/ ... y/12408232

Scott Morrison has unveiled a more aggressive defence strategy aimed at countering the rise of China, while warning that Australia faces regional challenges on a scale not seen since World War II.
Key points:

Scott Morrison has committed $270 billion to defence spending over the next 10 years
The ADF will get long-range anti-shipping missiles as it refocuses on possible conflict with China in the Indo-Pacific
The PM says the region is the "epicentre" of rising strategic competition

The strategy increases the focus on the Indo-Pacific region, with the Prime Minister warning that Australia needs to prepare for a post-COVID-19 world that is "poorer, more dangerous and more disorderly".

Australia will build a larger military that is focused on its immediate backyard, including new long-range anti-ship missiles, signalling a major shift in the nation's defence strategy.

"We have not seen the conflation of global economic and strategic uncertainty now being experienced here in Australia in our region since the existential threat we faced when the global and regional order collapsed in the 1930s and 1940s," the Prime Minister warned.

Mr Morrison also announced a commitment to spend $270 billion over the next decade on defence capabilities, including more potent strike weapons, cyber capabilities and a high-tech underwater surveillance system.

I do wonder if we need to spend so much on defence? that money might be needed to stimulate our post-covid economy

The Australian army uses mostly knives, boomerangs, and s**t, right?

If the Chinese government isn't going to invade Taiwan I doubt they would worry about Australia.

Why the bloody hell would China want to travel past the countries of Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, Brunei, Timor-Leste and Papua New Guinea to strike at... Australia?

Why the bloody hell would China* want to travel past the countries of Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, Brunei, Timor-Leste and Papua New Guinea to strike at... Australia?

China, in my opinion, is more interested in global economic control not military rule.

Our military is considering a possibility of an invasion from Russia all the time - it does not mean it will happen.
The rocket launchers in Kaliningrad Oblast have been aimed at my city since the 1990s. They still are. And think of all the people living in Seul!

A threat of a military invasion is always real and it's the job of the military to keep prepared for it, including identifying the most probable agressors. That does not mean someone is preparing an invasion. That means it's a scenario that requires being prepared even if the possibility is tiny.
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Ask our military advisers. They are the ones who are concerned about war with China* before the end of the decade.

As I said, for the resources, positioning and lebensraum.
We are relatively weak.
Deprive America of having an excellent base.
Use your imagination.

I realise your default position is to take the opposite view to what I say but read what others have posted.

I have lived in Asia and I know the China*s* mind very well. Throughout their history (from 2000 years ago) they have never been a military-expansionist country. At one point they were the only empire in the world to have cannons, gunpowder, a huge army, giant warships but they never expanded their borders.

They only use their military to enforce border integrity such as with India, Tibet, South China* sea and Hong Kong.

Likewise Australia was threatened by Japan in WWII. China* might replace Japan as a Pacific aggressor nation and would likely also threaten Australia. So its logical that Australia's military should plan for that possibility even if it isnt about to happen tomorrow, nor the next day.