Mr Hammer wrote on Apr 29
th, 2019 at 6:41pm:
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Good chance? We'd get obliterated Brian. China is dredging up the bottom and making sand islands with bases and them. The tyranny of distance is shrinking by the day. I'll tell you why China would love Australia- space. Lebensraum. People in China are living like caged chickens on top of each other. If the US had a civil war we'd be defenceless and other countries would start making their move. The stability of the US is our stability. It's just a fact.
You really do live in a different reality, don't you, Hammer?
China would not "obliterate" us. Why would they bother? They would need us as slaves, now wouldn't they?
In reality, China lacks the need to attack Australia. Lebensraum? Australia lacks the soils to support a large population. Our soils are the oldest on the planet and lack the nutrients to sustain massive cropping. China is well aware of this fact, Hammer. China is largely empty, despite your belief otherwise. Most of it's population is on the coast and inland from there. There is plenty of room further west, in Xinjiang and Tibet. Why undertake a risky invasion when you already control large areas that are not being used? Wars occur because of a need for a political outcome which cannot be achieved peacefully. As Clausewitz put it, "War is but politics by a different means." Sane politicians don't wage war unnecessarily. China has no necessity to wage war on Australia. None at all. It also lacks the means. It's navy is not equipped or trained for long range operations. To build an island takes years and years and years, Hammer, it does not happen overnight. You don't think we'd notice them building islands just to the north of our continent?
You really need to stop with your Yellow Peril stories, Hammer. Your Sinophobia is showing.