China is a military superpower, ranked second in the world. Only the US or perhaps Russia could even consider going toe-to-toe with China’s huge war machine.But in the past week, three senior Australian politicians have hinted that they might be willing to go to war with China over Taiwan.On April 25 – marked as a national day of remembrance for the war dead in Australia and New Zealand – Australian Defence Minister Peter Dutton said that the chance of a conflict involving China over Taiwan "should not be discounted".While he stressed in his Anzac Day address that "nobody wants to see a conflict between China and Taiwan or anywhere else" he made it clear that people needed to be "realistic" about China’s increasing militarisation of the.
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