DEFENCE CAPABILITY
Communist China’s aggressive stance towards its neighbours has increased dramatically in recent years, with the most recent Chinese incursions happening along the Indian border. The recent events in Hong Kong and China’s threats to retake Taiwan, which is just 180 kilometres from the Chinese coast, cannot be dismissed.
China now has a major blue-water navy that has the capacity, indeed, the intended aim of denying the United States fleet a presence in the Western Pacif…
