Injuring Divers With Sonar Show Us What the CCP Really Thinks

Commentary Imagine the outcry from the Chinese regime if an Australian naval vessel had set off its sonar system at divers from a People’s Liberation Army Navy ship, while they were attempting to disentangle fishing nets from their propeller while stuck in another country’s economic zone. There would be no end to the bellicose militaristic rhetoric by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its media outlets, such as the Global Times. All manner of threats would have been made about breaches of laws and conventions and the malign intentions of Australia. The recent incident in Japan’s economic zone, in which Australian divers from the HMAS Toowoomba were injured, exposes the continuing aggression from Beijing....