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US-loyal Australians (and think tanks and studies centres) who are supporters of AUKUS want to divert you away from these facts:
“China has not expressed kinetic hostile intent toward Australia.
“The primary risk of conflict arises from Australian decisions to host instruments of US power projection.”
And the #AUKUS Report contains much more information US-loyalists prefer to keep away from you.
“China has not expressed kinetic hostile intent toward Australia.
“The primary risk of conflict arises from Australian decisions to host instruments of US power projection.”
And the #AUKUS Report contains much more information US-loyalists prefer to keep away from you.
The latest @ASPI_org article attempting to discredit the AUKUS Public Inquiry findings (published 10 November 2026 on The Strategist).
It isolates three supposedly “false strategic premises” in the inquiry - China poses little threat to Australia, war with China would never be , and the primary threat to Australian sovereignty is the United States - and treats them as self-evidently wrong. The biases in Watterson’s framing of China are hence:
Presuppositional bias
Watterson’s text presupposes that Chinese military activity in the western Pacific and grey-zone practices already constitute a direct threat to Australian strategic interests that justifies the AUKUS pathway. Phrases such as “Australian concerns around Chinese maritime interdiction, military adventures in the South and East China Seas and grey-zone coercion -- all of which engage Australia’s strategic interests -- are hardly unsubstantiated” and references to “naval circumnavigations and unsafe intercepts of Australian aircraft” embed the assumption that these behaviours are inherently aggressive and Australia-directed rather than primarily territorial or defensive within claimed waters.
The text further presupposes that Australia must retain “the option to help others” (Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines) and “meet treaty obligations” toward the United States as a legitimate casus belli with respect to China. This converts alliance contingency into an Australian interest by definition, without examining whether the underlying territorial disputes or the alliance’s consultative character (ANZUS) support that conversion.
Organizational bias
The piece appears on ASPI’s platform and is authored by a Research Fellow at the United States Studies Centre. ASPI has long received core funding from the Australian Department of Defence, project funding from the US State Department and Department of Defense, and sponsorship from major defence contractors whose platforms align with AUKUS Pillar I and II. This institutional location produces a consistent framing in which Chinese military modernisation is the independent variable requiring Australian alignment with US force structure, while US basing, force posture, and industrial integration are treated as solutions rather than variables.
The article’s dismissal of the inquiry as constructing “an alternative reality of a strategically benign Indo-Pacific” reproduces the organisational default that the Indo-Pacific is already a contested theatre in which US-aligned capabilities are the rational response.
Bias-by-omission
The article omits several material elements that appear in the inquiry report, in long-standing Australian diplomatic testimony, and in the bilateral economic record:It does not engage the repeated statements by former Deputy Ambassador to China John Lander that China has not expressed kinetic hostile intent toward Australia and that the primary risk of conflict arises from Australian decisions to host instruments of US power projection (Force Posture Agreement unimpeded access and AUKUS basing).
It does not address the inquiry’s finding that the strategic rationale rests on unsubstantiated threats, nor the economic fact that China is Australia’s largest trading partner; any war scenario involving interdiction of Chinese shipping would destroy that relationship.
It hence frames Chinese “efforts to subvert Australian sovereignty” (cyber, trade, elections) as active while omitting the reciprocal structural features of the US alliance (Force Posture Agreement operational control of agreed facilities, embedding of US personnel, long-term industrial dependence under AUKUS). Historical framing is thus selective: Chinese actions in contested maritime areas are treated as expansionist, while the absence of large-scale Chinese initiation of external wars in the post-1979 period is left unmentioned.
These omissions allow the text to present the inquiry’s premises as factually mismatched rather than as a competing interpretation of the same data.
In contrast, China’s primary relationship with Australia remains one of mutual economic development. China is Australia’s largest trading partner; official Chinese diplomatic language continues to emphasise non-interference and win-win cooperation. Former Australian diplomats with direct China experience, including John Lander, have argued that China has not invaded other countries in the modern era in the manner of great-power expeditionary war, has not expressed hostile intent toward Australia, and that the AUKUS/Force Posture architecture converts Australian territory into a forward platform for potential US-led contingency (most obviously over Taiwan) while the United States retains the option of proxy or limited engagement.
The inquiry report itself concluded that AUKUS risks dragging Australia into conflict with China, undermines sovereignty, and rests on unsubstantiated threat premises. Under this reading, the US alliance structures impose hierarchical demands for strategic subordination (unimpeded base access, industrial lock-in, operational interchangeability), while China’s demands have centred on market access and non-interference in domestic political systems.
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david kersten retweeted
JUST IN: 🇨🇳 China officially surpasses $1 trillion trade surplus for the second straight year.
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david kersten retweeted
Iran clearly suffered a climate war before the wars of the last two years. Since Iranian forces destroyed the radars in the region, the rain has returned, and not just a little, but abundantly.
People will tell me I’m a conspiracy theorist. Come here, I’m going to tell you a ire used the weather to achieve its ends.
The Americans made a profession of using climate-manipulation methods in wars.
Operation Popeye in Vietnam at the time used chemical methods.
Which aimed to artificially prolong the monsoon period in order to make the Ho Chi Minh Trail impassable, flood the supply routes, and slow down the Vietnamese troops.
Let’s go back to Iran. You have a country that was surrounded by American bases. These American bases are equipped with extremely powerful radars capable of sending waves into different layers of the atmosphere.
Iran hit a whole series of American radar stations in the zone that were spread all along the arc along which the clouds that normally supply Iran with drinking water move.
Since the war broke out, precipitation has been excessive, with dams and reservoirs that are well above average, something that hadn’t happened for 50 years.
By crushing the radars in the region, Iran once again gained access to water and rain.
Yes, the Americans use every low blow when they want to subjugate you.
I imagine many Iranians thought this was a conspiracy theory before these wars, but the fact is there, you see a completely different climate since the radars were destroyed.
I’m telling you, they used the climate against you for many years.
What the Americans hadn’t foreseen is that the nation of Imam Hussein fights even when it is thirsty.
That’s why Iran is unbeatable.
People will tell me I’m a conspiracy theorist. Come here, I’m going to tell you a ire used the weather to achieve its ends.
The Americans made a profession of using climate-manipulation methods in wars.
Operation Popeye in Vietnam at the time used chemical methods.
Which aimed to artificially prolong the monsoon period in order to make the Ho Chi Minh Trail impassable, flood the supply routes, and slow down the Vietnamese troops.
Let’s go back to Iran. You have a country that was surrounded by American bases. These American bases are equipped with extremely powerful radars capable of sending waves into different layers of the atmosphere.
Iran hit a whole series of American radar stations in the zone that were spread all along the arc along which the clouds that normally supply Iran with drinking water move.
Since the war broke out, precipitation has been excessive, with dams and reservoirs that are well above average, something that hadn’t happened for 50 years.
By crushing the radars in the region, Iran once again gained access to water and rain.
Yes, the Americans use every low blow when they want to subjugate you.
I imagine many Iranians thought this was a conspiracy theory before these wars, but the fact is there, you see a completely different climate since the radars were destroyed.
I’m telling you, they used the climate against you for many years.
What the Americans hadn’t foreseen is that the nation of Imam Hussein fights even when it is thirsty.
That’s why Iran is unbeatable.
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david kersten retweeted
🇮🇱🇵🇸 Israeli women say they want peace with Palestinians, but apparently only after killing a million children in Gaza.
WTF is wrong with these people?!
WTF is wrong with these people?!
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Choose your preferences.
Don't let them choose for you.
Don't let them choose for you.
Still most Australians think we only have a choice between ALP & LNP. I doubt there’s one electorate in the country that offers only those options. We need to bust out of our narrow thinking & we need some really inspiring Independents & Greens to get their acts together.
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david kersten retweeted
Dear journalists
Palestine isn't simply “flooding” . Israel destroyed the water pumps, stormwater basins, homes, roads and hospitals, then trapped people on a strip of beach with nowhere to go. No tents, no prosthetics, no basic protection from the cold. Children are facing hypothermia with nowhere safe to seek treatment. And somehow the world is still looking the other way. This isn't a natural disaster. It's a Zionists-made catastrophe.
Do better
Palestine isn't simply “flooding” . Israel destroyed the water pumps, stormwater basins, homes, roads and hospitals, then trapped people on a strip of beach with nowhere to go. No tents, no prosthetics, no basic protection from the cold. Children are facing hypothermia with nowhere safe to seek treatment. And somehow the world is still looking the other way. This isn't a natural disaster. It's a Zionists-made catastrophe.
Do better
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It’s worse than that because the American constitution allows prisoners to be used as slaves.
The American constitution, thirteenth Amendment, Section 1, clearly says that slavery is permitted in the USA when using prisoners within the United States.
And more ironically, on about June22/22 the California Senate rejected a motion to end “involuntary servitude“, slavery of prisoners.
California prisoner slaves are currently forced to work about 100 million hours of slave labour annually; that equates to 50,000 full-time slaves in California. Now multiple that by 50 states!!
Section 1 of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states:
“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
The American constitution, thirteenth Amendment, Section 1, clearly says that slavery is permitted in the USA when using prisoners within the United States.
And more ironically, on about June22/22 the California Senate rejected a motion to end “involuntary servitude“, slavery of prisoners.
California prisoner slaves are currently forced to work about 100 million hours of slave labour annually; that equates to 50,000 full-time slaves in California. Now multiple that by 50 states!!
Section 1 of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states:
“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
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The same old spiel from the World's #1 Sheepdog.
Tomorrow he'll go back to backing the Empire, as usual.
Full. Of. Shit.
Tomorrow he'll go back to backing the Empire, as usual.
Full. Of. Shit.
BREAKING: BERNIE SANDERS SAYS US WARS ARE BASED ON LIES
“The war in Vietnam was based on a LIE. The war in Iraq was based on a LIE.
The war in Iran is based on a LIE, in my view.”
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david kersten retweeted
Why isn't he in the Hague?
JUST NOW: Joe Biden breaks down in tears as he surprises his son Hunter Biden in Dublin, who is receiving a student award at Trinity College.
Hunter was awarded the Gold Medal for Outstanding Contribution for Public Discourse.
Love this!
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david kersten retweeted
Not much shocks me anymore but this is shocking..
An Israeli woman in Haifa was arrested on suspicion of abusing a seven-year-old girl..
CRAWLING ON ALL FOURS, ATTACHED TO A LEASH AROUND HER NECK.
An Israeli woman in Haifa was arrested on suspicion of abusing a seven-year-old girl..
CRAWLING ON ALL FOURS, ATTACHED TO A LEASH AROUND HER NECK.
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david kersten retweeted
Protesters chant “blood on your hands” at Joe Biden as he arrived at a Trinity College in Dublin.
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Because of the USA, an innocent Australian citizen has languished in prison in NSW for more than four years.
He's broken no Australian laws.
He hasn't been charged with a crime.
The US demands his extradition on charges that aren't crimes here.
But we aren't "free" to say no.
He's broken no Australian laws.
He hasn't been charged with a crime.
The US demands his extradition on charges that aren't crimes here.
But we aren't "free" to say no.
This map says it best.
Freedom is the foundation of our strongest partnerships.
The United States and Australia stand together as free nations, where people can speak, vote, and worship as they choose. In China, those freedoms are denied.
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david kersten retweeted
OMG this is excellent. It's absolutely justified, but did you ever think that you would see the day?
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Secretary of War Crimes Pete Hegseth:
“Everything was ordered by the commander in chief.”
Hegseth isn’t going down without a fight and without taking Trump down with him.
This is absolute cinema! Lock them up and throw away the key!
“Everything was ordered by the commander in chief.”
Hegseth isn’t going down without a fight and without taking Trump down with him.
This is absolute cinema! Lock them up and throw away the key!
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China doesn’t need Nvidia anymore.
China is building its own ecosystem.
Pity Jensen Huang is a successful American with a Chinese name and face. This is the American Way.
To all the Chinese math geniuses who have been lured to US companies with incredible packages, know that ace and you will always be on the menu.
China is building its own ecosystem.
Pity Jensen Huang is a successful American with a Chinese name and face. This is the American Way.
To all the Chinese math geniuses who have been lured to US companies with incredible packages, know that ace and you will always be on the menu.
China responds to the claim that a “Chinese female spy” exploited Jensen Huang:
The “Chinese spy” allegation is purely unsubstantiated and directed at smearing China.
Translation:
Stop concocting spy-themed erotic fiction.
The funniest part of this story is the logic.
We are desperate for Nvidia chips that it allegedly needed to deploy a female intelligence asset to get close to Jensen Huang and influence his lobbying in Washington.
Jensen Huang did, in fact, spend years urging Washington to loosen chip restrictions on China.
And then Washington loosened them.
So what did Beijing do?
Around 600,000 H200 chips are now sitting in Hong Kong because China has not approved large-scale imports.
Jensen Huang himself has complained that Nvidia went from roughly 95% of China’s advanced AI-chip market to 0%.
So let me understand this:
China was supposedly desperate enough to run a spy operation around Nvidia’s CEO—
but once the chips became available, China decided it would rather keep building its own ecosystem than become dependent on Nvidia again?
That is a very strange definition of “desperation.”
Maybe the problem with this story is not China.
Maybe it is the story.
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I would include the entire American Empire since it is all in decline and has already made use of the same Chinese scapegoat.
In fact, many, Australia included, are being set up, as we speak, for direct violent conflict with China on America's behalf.
In fact, many, Australia included, are being set up, as we speak, for direct violent conflict with China on America's behalf.
When a country spends this much energy telling the world how dangerous its rival is, it’s worth asking: who is the audience?
Not China. China knows what China is doing.
Not the Global South, which has largely stopped organizing its foreign policy around Washington’s threat assessments.
The audience is domestic.
The China panic is, at its core, an American political product, something manufactured for American consumption, to explain American decline in terms that don’t require Americans to examine American decisions.
It’s always easier to have an enemy than an audit.
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