China does not threaten Australia, has not threatened Australia, does not intend to threaten Australia.
What makes you so sure China isn't a military threat to Australia?
Because I've got a brain, principally, and I can think, and I can read, you know, and I read every day, you know.
I mean, why would China want to threaten? What would be the point?
I know you're trying to ask a question, but the question is so dumb, it's hardly worth an answer.
I'd say for the cost, $360 billion. For $360 billion, we're going to get eight submarines.
It must be the worst deal in all history.
China has committed, in the eyes of the United States, the great sin of internationalism.
And what is that sin? To develop an economy as big as the United States. That's the sin.
The Americans will never condone or accept a state as large as them, you know.
And that's what China presents, China's mere presence.
I mean, they would have preferred they remain in poverty 20% of humanity forever.
But the fact that China is now, you know, an industrial economy larger than the United States, larger, calling them F, 20% larger.
They say, hang on, this is not in the playbook. This is not in the playbook. You know, what an affront.
You know, this is what this is about.