2011-11-15 (China Military News cited from heraldsun.com.au) -- As China's economic and military muscle challenges America's long-established primacy in the Pacific, some analysts believe Australia may be forced to choose between its main military ally and the trading partner whose industrial appetite stokes the furnaces of the resources boom.
Increased military links with the US, expected to be announced by President Obama and Prime Minister Gillard this week, could aggravate China, they say.
However Ms Gillard said it was not impossible for Australia to steer a course between the two giants.
"I dismiss that. I do not agree with it," she said today.
"It is well and truly possible for us, in this growing region of the world, to have an ally in the United States and to have deep friendships in our region including with China."
Barack Obama's visit has underlined the diplomatic challenge facing Australia, but Ms Gillard said Australians felt a sense of connection and affection for Americans and that would be on display for the President's visit this week.
She said the relationship was "deep and long lasting".
"We have stood shoulder to shoulder with them in the most difficult of circumstances this nation has ever faced.
"We have stood shoulder to shoulder with them in the days since 9/11."
Australia was doing the same in Afghanistan, Ms Gillard said.
"I think all of that drives a depth in our relationship."
Some analysts say balancing the two will require the skill and nerve of a circus act.
"I don't think Australia is faced with a stark, hard choice between the US and China, but it is in a difficult diplomatic game of riding two horses simultaneously," said Tom Switzer, research associate at the US Studies Centre.
"This will be an increasingly difficult dilemma for Australian policy makers as China asserts itself (in the region) and America maintains its presence," he told a US Studies Centre briefing at Sydney University.
Professor Hugh White, defence strategist at the Australian National University, has described the reported new US-Australian initiate to rotate marines through Darwin's Robertson Barracks as potentially very risky for Australia.
"In the view from Beijing, everything the US is doing in the western Pacific is designed to bolster resistance to the Chinese challenge to US primacy," he said.
"In Washington and in Beijing, this will be seen as Australia aligning itself with an American strategy to contain China."
November 16th, 2011 at 6:18 pm
us has over 3,500 soldiers stationed in Japan. But placing them there does not allow them decisive action.
"In October 2008, a flotilla of four PLA Navy surface combatants cruised around the Japanese archipelago, passing through the Tsugaru Strait between Honshu (the main island of Japan) and Hokkaido".
China can still freely cross wherever american troops are stationed.
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November 16th, 2011 at 8:17 pm
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November 16th, 2011 at 8:27 pm
But you wouldnt be willing to go to war with China because you already know what every move and counter move would look like, and thus why the strait wouldnt be blocked.
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November 16th, 2011 at 9:14 pm
@ James kampilan monkeys from the Philippines, where have you been, still continue to exact a monkey stress LOL ... LOL .... LOL ....
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November 17th, 2011 at 8:06 pm
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November 17th, 2011 at 8:29 pm
Ill bite. Screw you...blah blah....
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November 17th, 2011 at 10:17 pm
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November 17th, 2011 at 10:39 pm
I dont use other people's usernames. Ill bite meaning I will feed you, the troll.
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November 17th, 2011 at 11:11 pm
james kampilan admit that Japanese people are smarter than people pilipina, you base it is nothing more than a sycophant
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November 18th, 2011 at 7:45 am
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November 18th, 2011 at 8:09 am
Coming from a guy who admits to using multiple usernames.
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November 18th, 2011 at 9:41 am
@ James kampilan, I'm obviously stupid basic Japanese people, my name ako madamosiya, the Japanese original, jamjames kampilan stupid you really are too
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November 18th, 2011 at 9:47 am
@ James kampilan you had a black, short, ugly face again, face full of acne that you rock, so you were like a proboscis monkey LOL ..... LOL ...... LOL ......
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November 18th, 2011 at 11:21 am
你性交
Hot debate. What do you think?
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November 18th, 2011 at 11:26 am
你妈妈
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November 18th, 2011 at 8:06 pm
@ james kampilan 你妈妈
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November 18th, 2011 at 8:10 pm
@ james kampilan had short black dwarf stupid filthy, smelly anymore LOL ... LOL ... LOL ....
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November 18th, 2011 at 8:12 pm
@ James kampilan timid where daring opponents of japan, LOL ......
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November 18th, 2011 at 8:36 pm
@ James kampilan, wand too small because you're kind of short stunted little man, was so filthy black again ..... LOL advance basic proboscis monkeys
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November 18th, 2011 at 10:56 pm
@ james kampilan 你妈妈
@ james kampilan 你性交
@ James kampilan, wand too small because you're kind of short stunted little man, was so filthy black again ..... LOL advance basic proboscis monkeys
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November 19th, 2011 at 6:06 am
Where are you james kampilan? i miss you my monkey ... LOL
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November 19th, 2011 at 6:08 am
Where are you james kampilan? I want to see you my monkey ...
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November 19th, 2011 at 6:10 am
Where are you james kampilan? why you were so stunted, short, black, where the smell anymore
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November 19th, 2011 at 6:12 am
Where are you james kampilan? why you were so stunted, short, black, where the smell again, how many days you have not bathed my monkey
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November 19th, 2011 at 10:47 am
Where are you james kampilan? why you were so stunted, short, black, where the smell again, how many days you have not bathed my monkey.
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November 19th, 2011 at 7:25 pm
pilipina my colonies, while later the Japanese re-colonize the Philippines, then I'll sing
Kimigayo
Kimigayowa
chiyoni yachiyoni
sazare ishino
iwaoto narite
kokeno musu made.
yes ... I missed the Japanese flag flying all over the Philippines and finished the song kimigayo anthem throughout the Philippines is not the song lupang hinirang
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