Last month I blogged – Timeline of CCP attacks on Australia from 2008
The 2011 book Energy Security 2.0 is available at Art of Victory as a 3.5Mb pdf (scroll down right hand side)
Chapter VII By Yossef Bodansky – is titled – Energy: the Driver of the Grand Strategy of the PRC
I have copied and pasted Ch VII below and will work through removing paste errors and “bolding” text that hits me as contributing to explaining/understanding our current issues with China. I might add a note or two myself bold inside brackets.
Energy: the Driver of the Grand Strategy of the PRC
By Yossef Bodansky
THE RISING ECONOMIC AND STRATEGIC power of the People’s Republic of China(PRC) is clearly the key dynamic of Indo-Pacific and Eurasian geopolitics for the coming decade, and the PRC’s focus on fossil fuels as an integral component and priority of this grand strategy will drive both energy markets and security issues for much of the world in the coming decade and more. In 2009-10, the PRC was at a crucial junction in its historic ascent as a global strategic power, an ascent which began meaningfully in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union some two decades earlier. There were two major milestones in the evolution of the PRC’s post-Cold War grand strategy. The first phase ensued from the analysis by the PRC’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the then-nascent US-led globalization, the shape of hi-tech wars as demonstrated in the US-led Operation Desert Storm against Iraq (1990-91), and the trauma of the PRC’s own Tiananmen Square confrontation (1989).Continue reading 2011 explanation CCP hostility to Australia→
My headline could have said “aided n abetted by PNG” – So PNG is allowing China to build a fishing port on Daru Island and deploy Sino fishing fleets there. Wow what a kick-in-the-face from PNG to Australia – and releasing the news at Christmas. Here is a map of various marine zones in Torres Strait from this source.
Click here for larger version. What a festival for fleets of lawyers this will be. Our so called diplomats should be recalled from hols and all relationships with PNG and Bouganville urgently reviewed.
At a time when the Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements is sounding like a “festival of AGW/climate change” with BoM spokes talking up “dire” climate change –
the ABC can not quote anybody that questions the wisdom of communities such as Lake Conjola.
I have not heard a word about decades of increasing south coast populations – increasing post WWII subdivision of “bush blocks” by Councils taking population into areas of elevated fire risk – increased areas of National Parks(NSW State) which were previously forests that were managed better and simultaneous decreased management of vegetation adding to fire risk. This Google map of Lake Conjola shows clearly the extent to which areas of housing abut hard up against fire prone native bush. Large map.
Disasters waiting to happen with the clear warning of Tathra in March 2018 then the drought extends adding to fuel combustibility. If anybody knows of historic population trends for any south coast shires please post. I note too that housing blocks at Malua Bay south of Batemans Bay have been advertised on TV for months with forest pictured right near housing. I think I read where Minister Andrew Constance is from there. I hear nothing on TV news about reducing future fire risk or not rebuilding in danger.
I blogged on this issue near 40 months ago. In view of the crude oil price crash circa 6th March ~halving prices in US$ plus the unrolling COVID-19 health and economic disaster – I have hardly heard a word that Australian Govts could actually do something to lighten the load for taxpayers when they fill their vehicles tank.
My decade long graphic updated – WA Fuelwatch is the only ready source I can find for useful monthly ULP price data.
The AAA through FuelTrac used to have downloadable xls files – not now. NRMA has monthly Sydney data but involves time consuming multiple downloads – one day. Full size chart
Resource exports still booming skywards with the rest far far behind.
Resource industries have little political pull, put up with constant denigration by media, greenleft and sundry, while the rural sector floods our parliaments and often has their hands out for taxpayers money for this or that reason. Mines occupy a minute area of Australia compared to vast areas covered by agriculture and pastoral.
A shout out to readers. Early this month I heard Andrew Wilkie – Tassie Fed MP ask a question in QT suggesting the RAAF should operate large air tankers. I think Minister Dutton canned the notion. Recently I heard Jon Dee on TV news also raise the issue. Have readers heard of any other people advocating in public in favour of RAAF involvement?
Below here 8 previous blogs back to 2013 where I said the RAAF should operate large air tankers. Continue reading RAAF should be operating large air tankers→
