Why are Chinese warships circling Australia? | The Brief

China sabre rattling

We are sitting barbarians (ducks).

Sad their navy did not know! Sad and Dangerous!

They are disarming Australia for a silent takeover

Admiral Zheng He, the legendary Chinese navigator of the Ming Dynasty, may have led his enormous fleet on a voyage that circumnavigated Australia in the 15th century.

It's called freedom of NAVIGATION. Now learn to live with it.

They are probably checking Australia’s response time.

Sort it out lives matter 😮

Because they can, who would fear a country that cannot define a male or female?

All Airlines affected by the Chinese Warship cruising Australia should SEW the Australian & Chinese Governments from re-detecting their flights.

They should ask Australia if they can fly their jets in their own airspace

ease and calm down, just 'freedom of navigation',when the western countries warship come to the south China sea and taiwan of China. u say it's FON, but now the Chinese navy came, u say it's threat. what a ridiculous. Double standards.

And what about australian warship and plane in the chinese backyard ? Any response about that ?

Freedom of navigation america at australia does this all the time every country in the British Empire does this.

Dropped the ball guys,ur asleep at the wheel Al bo, please tell me you have a game plan?

Australian fisherman will have to defend Australia like the Irish lol

Aussie have Been freedom of navigation around China n scs. So what do you expect

Look the Chinese are trying to say this is their waters now don’t belong to them no more we’re controlling it Australia better wake up worship should not be around your coastal lines. Only yours looks like Charlie is trying to see how far they can get away with anything they can.

As an American, I agree that China has the right to Freedom of Navigation in any international waters, even off the US coast. What this incident shows is a lack of surveillance capabilities to monitor such passages successfully. The purpose of the Australian/US surveillance station is not to track vessels, it to collect and process signals intelligence from geosynchronous satellites, and early warning of missile launches. If everyone was operational, the navy only has 6 diesel submarines, 12 patrol boats and 7 frigates to cover a coastline of almost 60,000 km. Realistically, not everything is operational at one time. As for the comment about the United States considering allies as freeloaders, let's put the line straight. President Trump was referring to NATO allies that were not pulling their weight as the allies had committed themselves to do. For example, Canada has only been paying 1.3% of their GDP and stated they would never pay the full 2% as agreed to over 10 years ago. The Australian government has committed and paid over 2% GDP towards defense and meets its commitments. If Australia can be counted on as a trustworthy ally, so can the United States, especially since we want to commit more resources to the Indo-Pacific region.

China is a paper tiger

People really scared of slant eyes . Most of them liveing of 100 grams of rice a week they would be a push over if they enter aus

Every navy knows to stay away from coastlines so you are out of reach of land based AS weapons. China just has not caught on yet.

Their looking for a place to park and set up a new trailer park