While China faces enormous problems – low birth rates, environmental degradation, high debt –China’s ability to project power as far as Australia is still limited.The United States went through a great depression and several recessions, two world wars, a Cold War, and several major regional wars, yet to this day it remains clearly the biggest and most powerful nation on earth.
Australia therefore faces a future unlike anything it has faced before because the leading power in our region will no longer be our ally. Just as there are limits on the economic pain China can inflict on Australia, so it is with military force. China has made enormous strides in military technology. I have been following the People’s Liberation Army’s technological progress for more than 20 years, first as an intelligence analyst and then at the Lowy Institute. Its progress has been stunning.
Moreover, it’s hard to think of circumstances in which China would devote all its key naval resources to a fight with Australia. Everywhere China looks around Asia, its ambitions are constrained by other great powers: India, Russia, Japan, and the United States.for it to ignore them as security threats in order to focus its military power on far-away Australia.
And by the fact they can’t take an island they claims is theirs only a few miles away, never mind Australia that stands up to them on a regular basis
As an invader $$looter colony in ASIA, sick settler society AUSTRALIA has no future. CHANGE will happen + it will be what they always feared the most... the end of white supremacy worldwide... 😏 ..but by choice, they won't be part of the new era of global CO-OPERATION... too bad
Your article forgets to mention that China now has hypersonic missiles which can deliver nuclear bombs anywhere in the world The war with china is more real and cloeser than your writer knows
Developing nation! No question on their environmental damage but can build carriers.
'Always,' if I may point out, is a long time. A very long time.