Australia to arm soldiers with anti-ship missiles amid potential Chinese threat

I can't get past how weak our government was and are on this . Chinese would off destroyed us if we did this . We can't even fly over their, seas, let alone sail .

If you looking for Peace, you will get Peace! If you looking for conflict, you definitely will get one . Stop pretending Austrlia is big guy, small fish talk big, if you want next generations living peacefully, all you need to do is consider Ukraine and Americans first, average people know the answer 😂

Another think tank talking head trying to influence Australian defence spending. Aukus was an ASPI idea, a think tank funded by taiwan and the us. Dont know which fake think tank lobby group this drugeon comes from, but let me assure you, there will be no war between china and australia.

Every technocrats know this quote is nonsensical. This is the case of politicians who is clueless of technologies

Don't be silly. Our politicians can't see past their pay and pensions.

Do not get drawn into the western warmonger-based China paranoia bs. News outlets are openly anti-China because that is what the super-rich warmongers want. Fear. And more weapons.

What ?? Has Australia 🇦🇺 Defence Force actually crew a small , little brain 🧠 and going to build a hundred thousand PT . Patrol Torpedo Boats . And supply , provide bases and crews around Australia 🇦🇺 to patrol our coastline . ?? . In Australian 🇦🇺 Territorial waters ?? Australian Built for Australian waters . Andrej Kondisenko Cairns Australia 🇦🇺

Good Lord , I must be dreaming . Andrej Kondisenko Cairns Australia 🇦🇺

China is not our enemy, Britain and America our are Sovereign enemy, from Australia 🦘

Long range missiles and fleet of sea drones should address that risk.

Just watch and learn what Ukraine did to Russian Black Sea navy.

Trump will blackmail Australia unashamedly he will use this to undermine our sovereignty as it has done a number of times in the past.

Bloody hell! Don't the Australian government and "Defence Department" read the Sydney Morning Herald! According to the experts at the ASPI they report that we will be at war with China in 2021, 2023, 2025, 2027. (Depending on the instruction from "intelligence agencies"!) I've been hearing this crap for 60 years!

Does Australia actually have a navy ? Or an Army?

Why are we wasting money on nuclear submarines. With that amount of money we could protect ourselves much better by making ourselves too difficult to take on with defensive missiles and a powerful air force. We have no interest in invading others and Ukraine has shown how even a poorly equipped military can be a problem for invaders. We are going about this in the wrong way. Properly defended any attacker would have to be willing to lose their entire Navy and Air Force. Even manpower would not be such a problem. The $380B could be spent on our own defence industry.

One aircraft carrier, a few small destroyers, ancient submarines! The Chinese must be terrified!when was the last time a warship was built in Australia?

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They are mindful that Trump is President. The feeling is Trump ain't too concerned about Formosa.

International waters 🫨

Lolmao ,The AUS Government has cut more than AUS 5000 Troops ,proving that the Current Labor AUS Prime Minister is a CCP Rim licker ,along with the Greens party who are all Marxist. The current AUS Government will roll out the Red carpet for Chinse Troops. Election time cant come quick enough for Aussies .

What do you mean by “Yanks can’t be relied on”……if they hadn’t come to the rescue of Europe in WW2….and spent billions of their American taxpayers money on the June invasion, D day, we in Europe would all be speaking German. We will never know how close we came to that fact. Brave Polish pilots, RAF, New Zealand Air Force, South African A/F,and other Commonwealth countries all helped in that fight. If Hitler hadn’t invaded Russia with a weakened German army which was totally unprepared for freezing conditions, the outcome for Europe would have been disastrous. So instead of labelling USA as unreliable we must thank them greatly for us still being Democratic nations instead of living in a Dictatorship. After lessons learned from WW2, the U.S. is still helping in the fight against tyranny in Ukraine. 🇺🇦.

I'm sure we'll find out eventually, that these 3 Chinese warships were 'shadowed' the whole time they were in Australian waters. In fact .. warships from ALL nations are ALWAYS tracked wherever they are. Australia is a member of the 'Five Eyes' and our joint intelligence facilities such as Pine Gap would have been monitoring their every move … they're just NOT going to make that public.

Thankyou. I've been saying the same thing about China's ships being here and my worries about it. I believe they are doing all the calculations to go to war against us. It's the first time in my life that I started having a panic attack and am terrified about them bombing Victoria being mainly Melbourne and some of the larger towns. They have a clear shot of Canberra and Sydney in NSW. Then you've got the rest of the state capitals. I also believe that there are so many Chinese already here to make a major impact to us if all this happens. Albanese has destroyed any resemblance of the Aussies way of life and shattered it into billions of pieces. We are gone with no way out. Australia was a safe haven and a happy place for us Aussies. Now any way you look at it, we could all be blown to smithereens. Without the US we're gone. War from inside and war from outside…we'll never win. We have people from every country in the world living here and some of them have become violent to others. Any decisions Albanese makes is bad and certainly does not represent the large majority of Australian people. WE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE NEUTRAL.

China is our biggest trade partner. We should have invited the Chinese ships to dock in our ports while they were in the area, as a friend would do. We need to be independent of the US and an armed neutral in Asia.

This Australian isn't at all concerned about a threat from China. A bigger concern is the threat from the US. What has the US done to Germany? destroyed their energy supply and stolen their manufacturing.

Australia has been provoking China for years in the South China Sea under US orders. Both Australian Naval warships and Australian Air Force spy planes have been hugging the limits of China's territorial boundaries. The three Chinese ships circling Australia were far outside Australia waters as is their right. Us submarines have been making regular visits to Australia's Garden Island naval base, have a constant US Army force of 2500+ in NT along with regular visits by nuclear armed USAF aircraft. add several spy bases within Australia
The build up of Chinese forces is totally understandable if you are Chinese. Look at history.
Who has been doing the invading in the last 200yrs? The British, French, Portugese, Germany Japan and the US have all put "boots on the Chinese ground " causing tens thousands if not millions of deaths. The Japanese Unit 731 being particularly brutal conducting chemical and biological warfare and using Chinese people for live medical experimentation.
China has no history of invasion of any country not considered historically part of China. It has a policy of non-interference in other countres affairs unlike the British and US The so called Australia "expert" is parrotting US propaganda similar to that used to scare Australians into parting with $500B to prop up US arms industry. while threatening Australia's primary trading customer.

The United States is our actual enemy. Is the enemy of all free peoples of the world.

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Canabarra…

Nonsense.

Narrative is false. Australia is forced to buy weapons to dpend their money in USA to create unbalanced trade. Regardless what weapons and there is sny use or not. Trillion dollars is already commited on weapons purchases by this snsll 25 mln population. In the time everage famikly is in greatest debt in histor my abd workd leader.

Relax, I don't think the missile cares who it's fired against… China may well be an ally in not too long…

Australia committed to purchasing 200+ tomahawk missiles and the deprioritised that spend to purchase Virginia class submarines.
Australia needs f-47 jets, the Virginia class submarines and long missiles.
We also need to have mine sweeper
Australia is not prepared for a war right now

Australia doesn't need submarines.
We have no aircraft carriers or battleships that require submarine support.
What Australia needs is state of the art, long range stealth surveillance aircraft.
WTF is a few submarines going to achieve on 14,000+ kilometres of coastline?