While PM Morrison deploys the ADF against Australians, China continues its expansion in the South China Sea: Australia's "wartime" PM & Cabinet adding defence failure to their failure to prevent Wuhan Virus contagion,and the consequent economic disaster

by Ganesh Sahathevan

Paramilitary policemen wear face masks as they march in formation 
into a pedestrian underpass next to Tiananmen Square in Beijing, 
Feb. 4, 2020.



Asia Times reported on 1 April 2020:


With the Covid-19 pandemic mostly contained in China and now wreaking havoc on the United States, security analysts are closely watching Beijing’s military moves in the hotly contested South China Sea.

In recent days, China has conducted military drills and deployed large-scale military assets to the maritime area while at the same time officially celebrating strides made in exploiting disputed energy resources in the fossil fuel-rich sea.

While some see China’s nationalistic messaging as a bid to rally its people during difficult Covid-19 times, others view the increasingly aggressive naval maneuvers as a bid to exploit America’s weakened condition to secure new advantage in the hot spot theater.

Rival Southeast Asian claimants are also in a compromised strategic position as they contend with worsening Covid-19 outbreaks.

In Australia other other hand , members of the Australian Defence Force are being deployed to enforce quarantine orders against Australian citizens. Federal and State leaders are obviously more interested in  trying to conceal their error in failing to prevent the entry of visitors from China when the danger of the  Wuhan Virus became apparent: 

More Defence personnel will be helping with the coronavirus pandemic. Image by Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS

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