Endless! The United States conducts four or five tests annually, while countries like Australia remain completely silent. Now, Australia is leading a coalition of Pacific nations to issue a joint statement condemning us! After expressing strong dissatisfaction on July 8th, Australian Prime Minister Albanese has once again spoken out, claiming that Pacific island leaders are considering issuing a "very tough" joint statement condemning China's test launch of a submarine-launched ballistic missile.
Albanese stated that we hope Pacific nations can unite to send a strong message—a statement that will be extremely firm. We want to take responsibility for our own security—Pacific region leaders gathering together is precisely to provide security guarantees for this region. Clearly, Australia and Pacific nations are being profoundly hypocritical and double-standarded.
When the U.S. conducts intercontinental missile tests, the impact points are essentially always in the Pacific testing range, yet these countries stay silent. Now that it's our turn to conduct tests, they suddenly become very serious and rush to condemn us en masse. However, their condemnation simply doesn't hold water. First, our test impact point lies in international waters, causing no harm to any nation’s interests. Second, we have notified relevant parties prior to the test launch, fully complying with international practices.
Naturally, the motives behind these countries’ actions are twofold: first, to curry favor with the United States by aligning with them; second, to generate public opinion pressure and obstruct our normal development of national defense capabilities. Australia's proactive leadership in stirring up this fuss reveals its selfish intentions clearly. For years, Australia has treated the entire South Pacific as its exclusive backyard, unwilling to tolerate China's equal economic, infrastructure, and security cooperation with Pacific island nations. Clearly, we will continue conducting the tests we need to carry out, and we will also continue cooperating with South Pacific nations.
Original source: toutiao.com/article/1870127503647753/
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