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Sun Tzu is hard at work

How China uses ‘force’ to prevent ‘war’

18 June 2022

9:00 AM

18 June 2022

9:00 AM

If Australians needed any further evidence of Xi Jinping’s undeclared war against his perceived adversaries, the aggressive buzzing of an RAAF surveillance aircraft over the South China Sea last week is sufficient. This dangerous manoeuvre, which had to have been approved by the Peoples Liberation Army command, could have brought down the Australian plane.

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