AUSTRALIA rejects Beijing's South China Sea claims

[moweike]

Australia is like taking an expired aphrodisiac

 

[nahtanbob]

If Australia said that several years earlier, I would respect it for the courage. But now, it's like a little kid hiding behind his papa and repeating his papa's words.

By the way, is Australia a real developed countrie? What advanced technology it has?

It has Uncle Sam

 

[Viet]

Soon Australia will say Vietnam and phippines claims are illegal.

Educate yourself!
We don’t claim the entire seas.

Vietnam is Iran ver 0.0

Vietnam humiliated US far more than Iran. Without a strong China US will still be bombing and sanctioning Vietnam.

Without the Red Army defeated the Japanese army in Manchuria, without the US defeating the Japanese Navy in the Pacific, China would still live under Japan’s thumb.

The Chinese should give Hainan as gift to the US and Russia.

Ah without US assistance in chinese invasion of Vietnam, the PLA would have lost more thousands of men.

 

[CAPRICORN-88]

How far can Australia goes minus its export to China which is in Australia favour?
Australia is already in a technical recession due to slower imports by China.
Things are looking bleak for the coming months as the imports are getting even slower.
So just ignore these pests until they come to their senses?

 

[Indos]

Good Australia. We appreciate your move.

 

[Beast]

Good Australia. We appreciate your move.

Maybe you shall also thank these Australian move. Dont be selective.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-03/australian-journalist-expelled-from-papua/9393520

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09...ted-from-papua-independence-protests/11471894

You think Australia really cares for Indonesia? They are just making use of you.

 

[Viet]

Australia is just an American client state.

Sirs, that does not change the fact Beijing’s claim is illegal hence worthless.

 

[cochine]

Good move by Australia.

 

[cochine]

most world problems were created by the anglos... time to eliminate this race

Claim on nine dashed made by KMT in 1947. CPC repeated it so CPC is the kid of KMT.

 

[Vikram1]

If Australia said that several years earlier, I would respect it for the courage. But now, it's like a little kid hiding behind his papa and repeating his papa's words.

By the way, is Australia a real developed countrie? What advanced technology it has?

The way you want to mess with every country, you are not going to survive very long.
If you think you can control the world with your wish. Than you are simply watching dream. World will drain you with sanctions very soon if any misadventure happens from your end. And as your country heavily depends on exports its not seems very good for your future.

 

[Zsari]

NEWS /AUSTRALIA



Australia backs the US, saying there is 'no legal basis' to several Chinese claims in the disputed sea.

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Australia has rejected Beijing's territorial and maritime claims in the South China Sea in a formal declaration to the United Nations, aligning itself more closely with the United States in the escalating row.

In a statement filed on Thursday, Australia said there was "no legal basis" to several disputed Chinese claims in the sea, including those related to the construction of artificial islands on small shoals and reefs.

"Australia rejects China's claim to 'historic rights' or 'maritime rights and interests' as established in the 'long course of historical practice' in the South China Sea," the declaration read.

"There is no legal basis for China to draw straight baselines connecting the outermost points of maritime features or 'island groups' in the South China Sea, including around the 'Four Sha' or 'continental' or 'outlying' archipelagos."

The declaration comes after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared Beijing's pursuit of territory and resources in the South China Sea as illegal, explicitly backing the territorial claims of Southeast Asian countries against China's.

Beijing claims almost all of the South China Sea based on a so-called nine-dash line, a vague delineation from maps dating back to the 1940s.

INSIDE STORY: Have US-China relations soured to the point of no return? (25:31)


The latest escalation comes in advance of annual talks between Australia and the US, with ministers travelling to Washington, DC for the first time since Australian borders were closed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The meetings come at a "critical time" and it is essential they are held face-to-face, Foreign Minister Marise Payne and Defence Minister Linda Reynolds said in a statement on Saturday.

US relations with China have markedly deteriorated in recent months, especially over trade disputes, the coronavirus pandemic and Beijing's crackdown on dissent in Hong Kong.

On Friday, Beijing ordered the US consulate in Chengdu to shut in retaliation for the closure of its Houston mission over accusations of being a hub for intellectual property theft.

Payne and Reynolds also wrote an article in The Australian newspaper on Saturday, labelling national security legislation imposed on Hong Kong last month as "sweeping and vague".

"We face a public health crisis, economic upheaval and resurgent authoritarian regimes using coercion in a bid to gain power and influence at the expense of our freedoms and sovereignty," they wrote.

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/...g-south-china-sea-claims-200724223250039.html

And China declare Australia under foreign occupation? What's the point?

 

[Reashot Xigwin]

And China declare Australia under foreign occupation? What's the point?

The difference is one is a joke & the others are official government stance with the backing of the world only superpower.

China's current geopolitical situation:

 

[Zsari]

The difference is one is a joke & the others are official government stance with the backing of the world only superpower.

China's current geopolitical situation:

Makes no difference who backs it as the Australia statement changes nothing.

 

[applesauce]

Claim on nine dashed made by KMT in 1947. CPC repeated it so CPC is the kid of KMT.

well yes. the CPC was actually the junior/main opposition party in the republic of china, until the KMT decided to commit massacres that forced the CPC out. literally no one denies this.

also curious, you say "Beijing’s claim is illegal", what do you think of vietnam's claims which are roughly 80% of the chinese claims. is it also illegal?

 

[Reashot Xigwin]

Makes no difference who backs it as the Australia statement changes nothing.

It changes their stance towards china. Australia is now pursuing more active policy to counter China's agression.

China is adding more countries to its list of enemies.