The Chinese name for California was ‘gam saan’ or ‘gold mountain’. After the Californian goldfields petered out, gold was discovered in Victoria and the Chinese name for Australia became ‘new gold mountain’ – which shows how highly the Chinese regard Australia’s mineral abundance.
Because of our time-honoured alliance with the US, following them into every unnecessary conflict since WW2 and recently bolstered by the AUKUS pact, Australia is already committed to joining the US in any coming conflict with China.
To maintain global primacy and prop up their ever-growing debt and ailing dollar, the US seems destined to go to war with China.
With Xi now promising to reclaim Taiwan as part of the People’s Republic, the scene is set for an horrendous Sino-American war.
Anticipating this, China has been grooming Russia and North Korea as allies in such a conflict. Because of the ‘first strike advantage’ the conflict will rapidly escalate into a full-blown nuclear catastrophe, as they fire off all their intercontinental ballistic missiles within hours of the outbreak of war. That’ll be fun.
Australia has quite a few strategic targets. There are 70-80 military bases across the continent. Then there’s Pine Gap near Alice Springs.
We also have a naval base just a kilometre from the Opera House, smack in the heart of Sydney. And there are a couple of US military bases as well.
So I imagine all of these are already targeted.
Nuclear subs are seen as the US’s most effective weapon. The US has 71 nuclear-powered submarines including 18 Ohio-class nuclear-armed subs which can unleash enormous firepower. But who knows what hi-tech anti-submarine technology China may have?
The US has 12 aircraft carriers bristling with dozens of $100 million fighter aircraft. Conventionally the US would have used its aircraft carrier fleets very effectively, and probably won the war. But times have changed. In modern warfare all surface warships are ‘dead in the water’, totally vulnerable to hypersonic missiles, unmanned submarines or sea-drone attack.
We all know how high-tech and efficient the Chinese are – and they will invariably bring this efficiency and expertise to modern warfare.
The war will be so bulls-eye accurate it is likely to be over in days or weeks. And because Taiwan is so close to mainland China and the US will rapidly lose their battle fleets, China will have the home-town advantage and are very likely to win.
If that happened, carving up their spoils of war, China will inevitably claim and colonise Australia. Australia is a fat prize. Full of coal, iron ore, heavy metals, rare earths, beef, sheep, broad-acre farms, wine and lobsters and lots of space. The Chinese won’t take kindly to Australians waging war against them, and they won’t be kind task-masters.
The Australian people will be reduced to serfdom, working as slave labour, moving entire cities, roads, rail and all infrastructure above rising sea levels.
Australia will be renamed ‘New Gold Mountain’ and the world order will be restored again.
Let’s face it – the emerging Western autocracies and socialist autocracies are so similar, they may as well just kiss and make up, save their money and a couple of billion lives and go on living together in peace – good luck with that!
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