{"id":1563,"date":"2009-05-02T12:13:49","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T20:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/?p=1563"},"modified":"2009-05-02T12:12:34","modified_gmt":"2009-05-02T20:12:34","slug":"china-india-prompt-australia-to-increase-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/prophecy\/china-india-prompt-australia-to-increase-military\/","title":{"rendered":"China &#038; India Prompt Australia to Increase Military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"\/southeast_asia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"206\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Australia&#8217;s Open Spaces, Mineral Resources, and Proximity to China and India make it a Tempting Target<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/cogwriter.htm\">COGwriter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The increase of economic and military power by China and India are concerning the Australians:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"news_story_title\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Australia to Buy 100 Joint Strike Fighters, Double  Submarines<\/span><\/strong> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"news_story_title\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><strong>Bloomberg<\/strong> &#8211; May 2, 2009<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">Australia will  double its submarine fleet to 12, its biggest defense expenditure, and purchase  100 <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">Lockheed Martin Corp.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"> F-35 Joint  Strike Fighters to keep pace with a regional military buildup led by China and  India. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">Australia, which has <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">troops<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"> in Afghanistan and the Middle East as well as closer to home in the Solomon  islands and East Timor, will boost air and maritime forces, Defense Minister <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">Joel Fitzgibbon<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"> said in the  government\u2019s first defense review in a decade. It will also try to counter cyber  and electronic warfare. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">\u201cThe biggest changes over the period have been the  rise of China, the emergence of India,\u201d Fitzgibbon said in an e-mailed copy of  the White Paper defense review. \u201cThe White Paper was developed amidst a global  recession and it produces substantial additional investment.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">The review comes as China, the biggest buyer of  weapons between 2004 and 2008, and India build forces as their economies expand.  Australia\u2019s defense spending, which was A$17.9 billion ($13 billion) in the year  ending June 30, will increase an average 3 percent a year until 2018. Annual  outlays will increase 2.2 percent between 2019 and 2030. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><strong>China\u2019s Presence<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">\u201cChina will make its presence felt through soft as  well as economic power,\u201d including \u201caid, multilateral diplomacy and extensive  cultural and educational links,\u201d the report said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">China is developing plans for an aircraft carrier,  adding to the country\u2019s ability to project its power far from its shores. The  navy is planning to build bigger combat ships, more combat ships, supersonic  aircraft, high-speed torpedoes, long- range missiles and submarines that are  harder to detect, Xinhua News Agency said on April 15. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">Defense spending in the world\u2019s most populous country  has increased by more than 16 percent a year for the past decade, according to  Chinese government figures. The move reflects increasing international political  and economic clout. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">A Pentagon report in March put China\u2019s defense  spending at the second-highest in the world after the U.S., with total spending  at between $105 billion and $150 billion in 2008. The U.S. military\u2019s budget in  2008, not including supplemental spending for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, was  $488 billion. <\/span><a title=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601081&amp;sid=aZToRT4.2.Vo&amp;refer=australia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601081&amp;sid=aZToRT4.2.Vo&amp;refer=australia\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601081&amp;sid=aZToRT4.2.Vo&amp;refer=australia<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While there is a certain carnal logic in what the Australians are doing, the reality is that they will not be able to defend themselves sufficiently if China and India truly wish to take it over.<\/p>\n<p>Without national repentance, Australia is doomed for takeover just like the United States, Canada, and the U.K. are.\u00a0 Also, New Zealand (who has even less of a military) will fair no better.<\/p>\n<p><em>Some articles of possibly related interest may include:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/britishisrael.htm\">Anglo &#8211; America in Prophecy &amp; the  Lost Tribes of Israel<\/a> Are the Americans, Canadians, British, Scottish, Welsh, Australians, Anglo-Southern Africans, and New Zealanders descendants of Joseph? Where are the lost ten-tribes of Israel? Who are the lost tribes of Israel? Will God punish the U.S.A., Canada, United Kingdom, and other Anglo nations? Why might God allow them to be punished first?<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/kingofthenorth.htm\">Who is the King of the North?<\/a> Is there one? Do biblical and Roman Catholic prophecies point to the same leader? Should he be followed? Who will be the King of the North discussed in Daniel 11? Is a nuclear attack prophesied to happen to the English-speaking peoples of<span class=\"style27\"> the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand<\/span>? When do the 1335 days, 1290 days, and 1260 days (the time, times, and half a time) of Daniel 12 begin? When does the Bible show that economic collapse will affect the United States?<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/india.htm\">India, Its Biblical Past and Future: Any Witness?<\/a> The Bible discusses the origins of those of Indian heritage and discusses some of the witness to them (including those in Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka).<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/china.htm\">China, Its Biblical Past and Future, Part 1: Genesis and Chinese Characters<\/a> This article provides information showing that the Chinese peoples must have known about various accounts in the Book of Genesis up until their dispersion after the Tower of Babel.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/china2.htm\">China, Its Biblical Past and Future, Part 2: The Sabbath and Some of God&#8217;s Witness in China<\/a> When did Christianity first come to China? And is there early evidence that they observed the seventh day sabbath?<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/china3.htm\"> Asia in Prophecy<\/a> What is Ahead for China? Is it a &#8220;King of the East&#8221;? What will happen to nearly all the Chinese, Russians, Indians, and others of Asia? Who has the 200,000,000 man army related to Armageddon?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&#8217;s Open Spaces, Mineral Resources, and Proximity to China and India make it a Tempting Target COGwriter The increase of economic and military power by China and India are concerning the Australians: Australia to Buy 100 Joint Strike Fighters, Double Submarines Bloomberg &#8211; May 2, 2009 Australia will double its submarine fleet to 12, its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prophecy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1563"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1571,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions\/1571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}