Betting between fleets in the South Pacific with the military marines of Australia and New Zealand who are controlling the movements of three Chinese war ships that move unusually along the Australian sweat coast for an unknown mission. The Canberra government revealed that a week ago the same units had traveled through Southeast Asia and the sea of the corals and were approaching the north-east of Australia, and then suddenly changing broken. And Thursday 20 February the Minister of Defense Richard Marles specified that the Naval Units of Beijing are the Hengyang frigate, the Zunyi cruiser and the refueling ship Weishanhu, who have reached no more than 300 km east of Sidney. According to the information collected, the equipment of the first two ships would be such as to conduct only surface operations, but it cannot be excluded that in the mission the research or presence of a submarine is understood.
“There is no doubt that this is not an unprecedented event, but the following route is unusual,” said Marles on Sky News television. Australia states that Chinese wars ships have always been authorized to transit the Australian coast off the coast, but outside the territorial waters and prior diplomatic warning. Marles also said that the Navy ships and the Australian Air Force planes were monitoring these movements since the convoy had entered the exclusive economic area of Australia, or the area of territorial waters in which a nation has exclusive economic rights. The minister’s final comment was: “The Chinese have the right to be where they are, but Australia also has the right to be prudent and we are monitoring very carefully what are the activities they carry out. What we will do when this mission is over is to engage in a complete evaluation of what the Chinese were looking for. “
From Beijing, the spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Guo Jiakun was questioned in this regard during a press conference and replied that he was not aware of the situation or the mission, while the Chinese embassy in Australia did not even respond to the request for comment yet Thursday. Australia engaged together with Papua New Guinea and New Zealand to trace Chinese war ships after they had traveled along the coast of the insular nation of the southern Pacific directed to the Australian economic area. The New Zealand air forces were monitoring Chinese ships in coordination with Australia, as the New Zealand Defense Minister Judith Collins said in a declaration in which he specified: “We were not informed by the Chinese government on the reason why this convoy was deployed in our region and we have not been informed about its future plans. We will continue to monitor these ships “. According to analysts for a few months, the Chinese navy would be projecting its power all over the world by demonstrating, as the western forces have done, to be able to quickly deploy in every corner of the planet, also pushing themselves where they rarely went, that is, so to the south along the Eastern coast of Australia and in the Indian Ocean. But this Chinese deployment takes place while the head of the Indo-Pacific Command of the United States Navy, Admiral Samuel Paparo is found in Australia, and even if there are those who consider this fact a coincidence, given that the Chinese deployment would be been planned well in advance and the United States had not yet decided or issued information on the travels of their superior officers. Meanwhile, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanian has reassured public opinion with these words: “Chinese military ships are respecting international law while we are monitoring the situation and observing what is going on.” Three other Chinese war ships had visited the port of Sydney in 2019 but their journey had been approved by the Australian government and after that event the diplomatic and commercial relations between China and Australia had improved up to an episode that happened last week in the MAR Southern Chinese, where a Chinese hunt was accused of having released flares (false targets consisting of small rockets) too close to a plane of Australian military surveillance. In that case, Beijing had accused the crew of the Australian Airoplane of deliberately intruded into the airspace above the Paracelsus Islands, an area that China has been claiming for some time and which is contested with Australia.
