Comment on Australian and New Zealand militaries are monitoring 3 Chinese warships off Australia
Letstakealook@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Vessels navigating international waters is news? I don’t imagine they are pursuing any economic activities with those vessels. Freedom of navigation is supposed to be some all-important principle, so I’m not sure what the story is here.
Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
Unless they do some A/B testing on their site, it doesn’t read “vessels” … it’s something else.
Letstakealook@lemm.ee 1 day ago
I said vessels, which means ships. This is common for military vessels to go navigate international waters where it may be contentious to do so all in the name of freedom of navigation. Three ships, one being a supply vessel, do not pose a significant threat to Australia. A carrier group might be cause for concern, but this really isn’t.
notgold@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Fully agree with you here. Australian naval vessels go into waters off the south China coast often enough.
theguardian.com/…/south-china-sea-australian-wars…
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-07/…/103678236