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Summary
Australia’s Nuclear Submarine Move Changes Strategic Layout of Indo-Pacific Region
October 7, 2021
Recently, Australia signed with the United States and the United Kingdom a trilateral security pact called AUKUS, symbolizing that Australia has been strengthening its national defense after realizing the military threat from China.
One: Exposure of Beijing’s ‘Advancing Eastward and Southward’ Strategy
In the first half of 2020, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) waged a China-U.S. Cold War through a series of military threats.
Prior to this, the CCP had already launched a series of military deployments in the South Pacific, which gradually exposed its military intention of “advancing eastward and southward” and heightened the alertness of Australia.
It can be said that Australia has seen the possible threat of another Pacific War, in which the CCP plays the role of the Empire of Japan during World War II.
The military intention of the CCP’s “advancing eastward,” which is under the guise of “unifying Taiwan”—the democratic and independent island which the CCP longs to claim its sovereignty—actually targets the U.S. military bases in Guam and Japan.
As for its strategy of “advancing southward,” the CCP unabashedly relates itself to the Imperial Japanese Army, which ordered a military deployment in the Pacific War from 1941 to 1945.
On May 27, 2021, the CCP signed an agreement with Samoa, a Polynesian island country to the east of Australia, ready to invest $100 million in the country to build a large terminal in Vaiusu Bay....
Two: CCP’s Foreign Military Ambitions Are Aimed at Australia
Australia may not see clearly the reason why the CCP has been building bases in island countries in the southern hemisphere, such as Samoa, Kiribati, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu, which are geographically not too close to Australia.
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Three: Reason Behind CCP’s ‘Southward’ Military Expansion'' __
One of the targets of the CCP’s “southward” military expansion is Australia. Over the past 20 years, the CCP military has spent a lot of manpower to translate the many memoirs of South Pacific warfare during the Pacific War.
Four: Ulterior Motive of CCP’s Trade Sanctions on Australia
Since the second half of 2020, the CCP has imposed unilateral economic sanctions on Australia.
With the exception of iron ore, gold, and aluminum ore, other agricultural and mineral products of Australia, which were meant to be exported to China, have been banned or blocked in disguised form by the CCP.
Five: Australia’s Nuclear Submarine Strategy
The long-distance military confrontation of modern countries is mainly confrontation between naval vessels. Australia has long been preparing to strengthen its submarine fleet based on the CCP’s maritime threat.
Originally planning to purchase the conventional type of powered attack submarines from France, Australia decided to switch to U.S. nuclear-powered attack submarines recently.
Six: Influence of Australia’s New Strategy of National Defense
The reason why the CCP has been forcibly building artificial islands in the open waters of the South China Sea is to blockade the international waters in this area.
The strategic intention of these artificial islands, which serve as the “deep sea fortress” of the CCP’s strategic nuclear submarines, have been introduced publicly and specifically by the regime.
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