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A Chinese naval flotilla came within 10 kilometres of Australia’s exclusive economic zone last year, and top defence officials warn further deployments are likely as Beijing flexes its military power.

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

"Put another shrimp on the sushi!" /s

[–] My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ten kilomiles seems pretty far away, imo. What's the problem?

[–] xcel@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Up to 12 miles (22km~) from the coastline it's considered "Territorial Sea" according to what I saw on wikipedia. Where full national sovereignty applies, similar to land territory.

Essentially equivalent to driving a tank through an Aussie street

[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

And if I'm understanding correctly they were 10 km away from that 22km boundary

Edit wait nevermind from the article, the part that I can read through the paywall anyway, they were 10km from Australias exclusive economic zone which stretches out 340km from the coast. So it'd literally be an order of magnitude further away than what I originally said lol

[–] xcel@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

And that would be the "Contiguous Zone" up to 44km (from the coastline) in which they have limited jurisdiction but it's still Austrialian territory.

Edit: true... hahaha I found one of those pages to remove paywalls. So the title is clickbait :( https://archive.is/20260211071807/https://www.afr.com/policy/foreign-affairs/chinese-warships-came-within-10km-of-australian-waters-defence-20260211-p5o1h4

[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 4 points 1 month ago

Chinese warship clickbait is legitimately it's own genre of fear mongering in aus. There was a story not too long ago about a Chinese navy flotilla sailing through Australian waters. Turned out it was a research boat doing research on behalf of and at the request of Australia.

[–] prex@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Mate, you're on the wrong planet if you want to be out of missile strike range.

[–] prex@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago

OK then, within ESM range.
30km is worse than 3000km no?