
Emerging Risks
‘The rot in our culture is making us dangerously weak’: Andrew Bolt
Sky News host Andrew Bolt says people need to face up to the “rot in our culture that is making us dangerously weak”.
“We’re obsessing about our gender pronouns, our racial identity, and what victims we are,” Mr Bolt said.
“What is China up to?
“The Pentagon now thinks China will have five times more nuclear weapons in 10 years than the US first thought, and China is also testing a hypersonic missile that flies at five times the speed of sound.
“All of this is freaking Australia of course, you’ve seen the Morrison government, how it’s hurriedly teamed up with the US and Britain to get more advanced weapons out here quick.”
Mr Bolt said “our pride in what we have and our willingness to defend” in the West is “collapsing already”.
“So what are we going to do about that?”
China Builds Missile Targets Shaped Like U.S. Aircraft Carrier, Destroyers in Remote Desert - USNI News
The Chinese military has built targets in the shape of an American aircraft carrier and other U.S. warships in the Taklamakan desert as part of a new target range complex, according to photos provided to USNI News by satellite imagery company Maxar. The full-scale outline of a U.S. carrier and at least two Arleigh Burke-class destroyers …
Pentagon’s China Military Power Report Confirms Beijing’s Nuclear Ambitions
The Pentagon’s annual report on China’s military capabilities confirms that Beijing’s days of maintaining a minimum nuclear deterrent are over.
Along with several other concerning military developments, the report makes clear that China is headed toward becoming a nuclear peer (or surpassing) the United States and Russia—a state of affairs for which U.S. nuclear forces are wholly unprepared.
China and Russia Are Waging Irregular Warfare Against the United States: It is Time for a U.S. Global Response, Led by Special Operations Command | Proceedings - November 2021 Vol 147/11/1,425
The government’s approach to strategic competition is problematic, but there are military, technological, interagency, and combined approaches that would help.
A Closer Look at China’s Missile Silo Construction
After the discovery during the summer of what appears to be at least three vast missile silo fields under construction near Yumen, Hami, and Ordos in north-central China, new commercial satellite images show significant progress at the three sites as well as at the People’s Liberation Army Rocket Fo