Commentary If there were ever any doubts about how China will comport itself as a superpower, there are fewer today than there were yesterday. This week, in a televised interview with an apparent spokesman for the Chinese regime, the world learned that Australia will be considered a valid target of nuclear weapons if it acquires nuclear-powered submarines. The Aussies are not considering acquiring submarines that are nuclear armed, mind you, just nuclear powered. There’s a big difference between the two, of course, but not as far as China is concerned. A Naked Nuclear Threat On Sept. 20, Beijing-based Victor Gao, vice president of the Center for China and Globalization, told an Australian interviewer that, “ … if the Australian government wants to … go nuclear, with nuclear submarines, they will lose that privilege of not being targeted with nuclear warheads going forward. It’s as simple as that … this is the …
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