Chinese warships came within 10km of Australian waters: Defence (www.afr.com)
from throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to world@lemmy.world on 11 Feb 10:37
https://lemmy.nz/post/34235124

A Chinese naval flotilla came within 10 kilometres of Australia’s exclusive economic zone last year, and top defence officials warn further deployments are likely as Beijing flexes its military power.

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My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world on 11 Feb 11:57 next collapse

Ten kilomiles seems pretty far away, imo. What’s the problem?

xcel@lemmy.world on 11 Feb 12:36 next collapse

Up to 12 miles (22km~) from the coastline it’s considered “Territorial Sea” according to what I saw on wikipedia. Where full national sovereignty applies, similar to land territory.

Essentially equivalent to driving a tank through an Aussie street

Fleur_@aussie.zone on 11 Feb 12:39 collapse

And if I’m understanding correctly they were 10 km away from that 22km boundary

Edit wait nevermind from the article, the part that I can read through the paywall anyway, they were 10km from Australias exclusive economic zone which stretches out 340km from the coast. So it’d literally be an order of magnitude further away than what I originally said lol

xcel@lemmy.world on 11 Feb 12:43 collapse

And that would be the “Contiguous Zone” up to 44km (from the coastline) in which they have limited jurisdiction but it’s still Austrialian territory.

Edit: true… hahaha I found one of those pages to remove paywalls. So the title is clickbait :( archive.is/…/chinese-warships-came-within-10km-of…

Fleur_@aussie.zone on 11 Feb 13:12 collapse

Chinese warship clickbait is legitimately it’s own genre of fear mongering in aus. There was a story not too long ago about a Chinese navy flotilla sailing through Australian waters. Turned out it was a research boat doing research on behalf of and at the request of Australia.

prex@aussie.zone on 11 Feb 12:53 collapse

Well within range of their missiles

Fleur_@aussie.zone on 11 Feb 13:07 collapse

Mate, you’re on the wrong planet if you want to be out of missile strike range.

prex@aussie.zone on 11 Feb 15:26 collapse

OK then, within ESM range.
30km is worse than 3000km no?

melsaskca@lemmy.ca on 11 Feb 13:36 collapse

“Put another shrimp on the sushi!” /s