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Australia's views/moves on WPS/SCS disputes; re-titled, updated
Topic Started: May 30 2015, 02:20 AM (2,186 Views)
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Australia Speaks Plainly on the South China Sea
The country’s defense officials make their strongest statements yet on the disputes.

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On Wednesday, Australia’s Defence Secretary, Dennis Richardson, made the most significant statement yet against Beijing’s activities in the South China Sea.

Speaking at a Royal United Services Institute at the New South Wales Parliament, Richardson said, “The speed and scale of China’s land reclamation on disputed reefs and other features does raise the question of intent and purpose.” He added bluntly, “It is legitimate to ask the purpose of the land reclamation – tourism appears unlikely.”

Richardson continued that China’s increased activities in the area, including the larger presence of Coast Guard vessels and law enforcement, intensified the potential for “miscalculation.”

The Defence secretary’s comments are the most direct from the current government and mark a significant change from Canberra’s usually tempered statements of the actions of its biggest trade partner.

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Bought by China

South China Sea: Australia will ignore Chinese air defence zone, says Kevin Andrews
David Wroe - National security correspondent
June 1, 2015

"China's conduct is unacceptable and we do have to stand up to this kind of stuff.
But obviously avoid the brinksmanship, there is just as much danger if we do nothing."

- Andrew Laming, Liberal MP (Queensland)


Defence Minister Kevin Andrews has said Australia will continue to fly military aircraft over disputed waters in the South China Sea even if Beijing imposes a unilateral restricted air zone.

A day after demanding an end to Beijing's island-building in the contested waters during a key Asian security conference, Mr Andrews indicated Australia would not heed any "air defence identification zone", which Beijing has reserved the right to declare.

Any such zone, which would require aircraft to request permission to fly through the airspace, would be regarded as a great provocation in the tense stand-off over Beijing's increasing assertiveness over the Spratly Islands, which are also claimed by Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam and other neighbours.


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Australia’s Worldview, Minus the Spin
Is Australia moving out of the “slipstream” of power?


By Elliot Brennan
August 26, 2015

In a telling lecture at the Lowy Institute for International Policy this month, Peter Varghese, Secretary of Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, spoke about his country’s place in Asia. Successive governments have tried to define how Canberra should engage with the changing region. All have fallen short. Last week, Varghese cut through the politician-speak that clouds too much of Australian foreign policy and set out Canberra’s strategic view.

Australia, he noted, has traditionally existed in the “slipstream” of power (think relations with the U.K. and the U.S.), both when operating in the region and internationally. In recent years, new power relations in the Indo-Pacific are forcing a period of adjustment. As Varghese noted, any “grand bargain” between the two great powers in the region is unlikely. Instead, Varghese noted that the process of adjusting to shifting power balances in a multi-polar Asia will be “incremental and organic.”

Reaching consensus in regional and international frameworks is increasingly difficult due to the diverging interests of actors. As Varghese notes we need to break the idea that we can’t agree until we agree on everything. Explaining further that we need to “break through this idea that one or two or three countries are able to effectively veto the adoption of an international instrument.”

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Australia's Interests in the South China Sea

China’s artificial islands are of minor interest to Canberra.

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By Greg Austin
November 02, 2015

It seems that the depth of the Pentagon’s angst surrounding the artificial islands in the South China Sea is not shared in the new Australian government or its naval circles. The Australian newspaper, by contrast, is trying to whip it up as usual by referencing incorrect and misleading statements about China. But there are bigger issues at play in the region that may force the island dispute to lose the heat that it has generated.

The Australian government has followed its U.S. ally by asserting correctly that warships enjoy the right of unimpeded freedom of navigation in water areas outside of the territorial sea of other countries. This seems to be the overwhelming weight of opinion on all sides in Australia. One of the best and calmest articulations of this was an article by retired Admiral James Goldrick in the Lowey Interpreter on 29 October (“Why Australia must send its navy to assert the freedom to operate in the South China Sea”). He counselled:

The operation should be conducted without warning and it should not be a matter for an immediate press release. We need to be restrained in the publicizing of our activities.
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Australia's own FONOP was actually occurring simultaneously with the attempt by that BBC reporters' plane to go over Mischief Reef mentioned in another thread:

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Did Australia Secretly Conduct Its Own Freedom of Navigation Operation in the South China Sea?

An accidental scoop by a BBC reporter suggests so.

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December 16, 2015

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Though Wingfield-Hayes says his aircraft was warned away repeatedly (and aggressively) by the Chinese navy, he didn’t catch any Chinese response to the Australian broadcast. Details released later provided a specific date for the radio transmission (November 25) and identified the aircraft as an RAAF AP-3C Orion.

As Wingfield-Hayes explains, Australia has never publicly announced its own freedom of navigation operations in the South China Sea. Yet here was a radio transmission that suggested Australia was doing just that. In response to the highly-publicized U.S. FONOP near Subi Reef in late October, Australia expressed strong support for the rights of freedom of navigation and overflight, but was coy about whether it would conduct its own such operations, either independently or with the United States.

ABC picked up the story from there, including a clip of the audio recording from Wingfield-Hayes. According to ABC, the Australian government still has not announced that it undertook a freedom of navigation operation in the South China Sea. The Department of Defense confirmed some of the details, however, telling ABC that “a Royal Australian Air Force AP-3C Orion was conducting a routine maritime patrol in the region as part of Operation GATEWAY from 25 November to 4 December.”

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Australia warns Beijing over threat of conflict in South China Sea


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SYDNEY, Australia—Australia urged China on Friday to refrain from the “militarization of islands” to avoid walking into a conflict, a day after the United States slammed Beijing for deploying missiles in the disputed South China Sea.

China said Thursday it had weapons on one of the islands in the strategically important region, which US Secretary of State John Kerry said was evidence of an “increase of militarization” and a “serious concern.”

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said it was critical for the region’s prosperity that China and the US used international law to resolve their disputes.

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The Chinese really shouldn't mess with the Aussies, or any Commonwealth country for that matter.

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Chinese Media: Australia an 'Ideal Target to Strike' Over South China Sea
The state-run Global Times issued a scathing editorial calling for war between Beijing and Canberra if Australia continues to meddle in the South China Sea dispute.

Chinese state-run media declared Australia "an ideal target for China to warn and strike" if it ventured into the contested South China Sea in a scathing call for war laced with insults against the country.

The Global Times, known for a hardline nationalist editorial line, blasted Canberra on Saturday, in an opinion piece titled "'Paper Cat' Australia Will Learn its Lesson," for supporting the July 12 ruling by the international arbitration tribunal at The Hague countering Beijing’s historical claims to the South China Sea.

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The Chinese threat above would seem to be directed at any ship that dares to conduct Freedom of Navigation operations in the South China Sea.

Source: Daily Caller
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Australia considering joint South China Sea patrols with Indonesia

Australia is considering an Indonesian invitation for joint maritime patrols in the South China Sea, Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said Tuesday.

According to Bishop, the option was discussed during last week’s meeting between her, Australian Defence Minister Marise Payne and Indonesian officials including Defence Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu in Jakarta.

“We have agreed to explore options to increase maritime cooperation and of course that would

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SOUTH CHINA SEA | Australia's top diplomat bats for enforceable code of conduct
By: Lira Dalangin-Fernandez, InterAksyon
March 16, 2017 6:34 PM


MANILA, Philippines - Visiting Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said Thursday that the Philippines, on the back of the favorable ruling of the United Nations arbitration tribunal, is in a position to lead in the establishment of an "enforceable code of conduct" among ASEAN nations on the South China Sea row.

Countries need to abide by rules-based order that resolves disputes peacefully, Bishop said in a speech at a forum on Change and Uncertainty in the Indo-Pacific – Strategic Challenges and Opportunities for Australia and the Philippines, held in Makati City.

"We believe that ASEAN should strive for an enforceable code of conduct ... as soon as possible," she said.


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