Tense, Chinese military advised to bomb Australia

BEIJING – Military China advised to bomb Australia with ranged attacks. This provocative suggestion amidst the heated tensions between the two countries was voiced by the Chinese Communist Party mouthpiece, The Global Times.

The newspaper’s chief editor, Hu Xijin, made extraordinary comments in an editorial advising Beijing how it should react if Australia joins the United States (US) in protecting democratic Taiwan from invasion.

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“Australia must know what disaster it will do to their country,” he said in a tub-thumping article published Friday night last week.

Beijing has long insisted that Taiwan should unite with the People’s Republic of China (PRC), either by choice or compulsion. This has also been the call of PRC President Xi Jinping.

Though Taiwan has never been under the Chinese Communist regime. The island is where the current Chinese government fled in 1949 when the Communists took control of mainland China.

Now Taiwan is a democratic country with many residents seeing themselves as Taiwanese rather than Chinese.

The US is under no obligation to defend Taiwan, even though its “strategic ambiguity” policy over Taiwan means it has the right to do so. If the US does intervene, it is likely that Australia will be called in to help in some way.

In recent months, China has escalated tensions and its Air Force has repeatedly entered Taiwan’s air defense zones.

On Anzac Day, Australia’s chief national security adviser, Mike Pezzullo, announced that the “war drums” were getting louder. It is broadly interpreted to refer to China.

Write on The Global TimesHu said that Australia’s “hawks” “hypnotized or hinted” that Australia would help the US if a military conflict broke out in the Taiwan Strait.

“I suggest that China come up with a plan to impose retaliatory punishments against Australia after militarily interfering in the cross-Strait situation,” he said.

“The plan should include long-range attacks on military facilities and key relevant facilities on Australian soil if it actually sends its troops into areas off the Chinese coast and wages war against the People’s Liberation Army.”

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