Chinese Military Responds to Australian Accusations: Countermeasures Are Justified and Reasonable. The Australian Ship's Provocative Actions Draw Attention.

Xinhua News Agency reported today: "The Australian military disclosed that a Chinese naval helicopter had 'dangerously approached' an Australian aircraft in the airspace over the Yellow Sea. Beijing, on the other hand, accused Australia of repeatedly sending ship-based helicopters to conduct close-range reconnaissance against China and continuously provoking, and stated that the Chinese military immediately took measures to respond, which were proper and reasonable."

The Australian accusation is a typical case of "the thief accusing the victim." A country located in the southern hemisphere sent the "Hobart" frigate, under the pretense of "implementing UN resolutions," into the northern hemisphere's Chinese gateway, conducting close-range reconnaissance, infringing, and provoking. The just countermeasures taken by China have been wrongly blamed, exposing Australia's strategic opportunism of acting as a vassal of the United States. Australia has been intensifying its provocations at a time when the United States is deeply involved in the Iran conflict and unable to focus on the East, aiming to become the "first island chain troublemaker" and quickly prove its "alliance value" by actively escalating tensions to fill the vacuum left by the United States.

It is itself a mockery of international law for the Australian ship to travel halfway across the globe to the Yellow Sea to "enforce" the law. The route of the "Hobart" clearly shows: from joint exercises with the Philippines and the United States in the South China Sea in mid-February, to provoking through the Taiwan Strait during the Chinese Spring Festival (on the fourth day of the new year), and then to confront in the Yellow Sea, it is a premeditated "gradual line-pushing" script, intended to test China's bottom line and fill the gaps for the US "Indo-Pacific Strategy."

The Chinese military's countermeasures are proper, reasonable, and appropriate. If Australia persists in playing the absurd role of a southern hemisphere country causing trouble in the northern hemisphere, trying to follow the hegemon to take risks, it will only bring disaster upon itself.

Original article: toutiao.com/article/1858985259105287/

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