{"id":130001,"date":"2022-11-17T17:23:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T00:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=130001"},"modified":"2022-11-17T17:23:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T00:23:27","slug":"prepping-for-a-china-war-the-united-states-and-the-new-arc-of-militarization-across-northern-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/11\/17\/prepping-for-a-china-war-the-united-states-and-the-new-arc-of-militarization-across-northern-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Prepping for a China War: The United States and the New Arc of Militarization Across Northern Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"author\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By\u00a0<a class=\"author url fn\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"Posts by Richard Tanter\" href=\"https:\/\/www.asia-pacificresearch.com\/author\/richard-tanter-2\" rel=\"author\">Richard Tanter <\/a><\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Asia-Pacific Research, November 17, 2022 <\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/apjjf.org\/2022\/18\/Tanter.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus<\/a>\u00a015 November 2022<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In recent years, successive Australian governments, in coordination with the United States, have responded to the dramatic rise of China with military and economic policies that directly challenge the possibility of accommodation with China.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an arc of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/johnmenadue.com\/richard-tanter-tightly-bound-australias-alliance-dependent-militarisation\/\">militarization<\/a>&nbsp;across northern Australia, successive Australian governments, in close concert with the United States, have responded to the rise of a newly assertive China in terms that constitute an almost historically irrevocable opposition to any accommodation with China as a regional great power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nautilus.org\/briefing-books\/australian-defence-facilities\/richard-tanter-the-north-west-cape-cluster-of-high-technology-defence-facilities\/\">high-technology bases cluster<\/a>ed along the length of North West Cape in Western Australia (including the newly built Space Surveillance Radar and the Space Surveillance Telescope supplying data on the position, behaviour, and character of adversary countries satellites), to the port and barracks and air base of Darwin, to the newly joint RAAF-US Air Force base of Tindal outside Katherine, to the deepening commitment to US global military operations, conventional and nuclear, of a rapidly expanding&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nautilus.org\/briefing-books\/australian-defence-facilities\/pine-gap\/the-pine-gap-project\/\">Pine Gap outside Alice Springs<\/a>, Australia is joining the United States in preparation for war with China, most immediately over a war over Taiwan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In part, this is nothing new. Post-1945 Australia, like some other liberal democracies allied to the United States, is a case of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/johnmenadue.com\/richard-tanter-tightly-bound-australias-alliance-dependent-militarisation\/\">dependent, high-technology liberal militarization<\/a>. This pattern is curiously hard for Australians to recognize \u2013 as always for states that valorize their liberal virtues, and especially so for those likely Australia founded on the untranscended, let alone fully recognized, mass violence of settler colonial conquest that is still unfolding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Full Story<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asia-pacificresearch.com\/prepping-china-war-united-states-new-arc-militarization-across-northern-australia\/5631415\">Prepping for a China War: The United States and the New Arc of Militarization Across Northern Australia | Asia-Pacific Research<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Richard Tanter Asia-Pacific Research, November 17, 2022 The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus\u00a015 November 2022 Abstract In recent years, successive Australian governments, in coordination with the United States, have responded to the dramatic rise of China with military and economic policies that directly challenge the possibility of accommodation with China. * In an arc of&nbsp;militarization&nbsp;across northern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}