How Chinese Warships OVERWHELMED the Australian Military
By HistoryLegends
Between 21 February and 9 March 2025, China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy sailed around Australia for the first time ever, and carried multiple live fire exercises close to the Australian coastline. One of them took place just outside Sydney, disrupting international flights.
0:00 Introduction
1:58 Earlier incident between Australia and China
4:15 Composition of PLAN Task Force 107
7:03 China’s Live Fire exercises
10:00 Chinese warships sail around Australia
11:43 Taiwan Strait incident
13:44 Royal Australian Navy in danger
15:46 China threatened critical military infrastructure in Australia
Here’s what others had to say:
@joshadsett4835
As an Australian we must at “all cost” uphold our house prices
@D64nz
Kiwi here. China is not our enemy. They are our biggest trading partner. The sooner we go neutral the better. Neutral doesn’t mean we wouldn’t help the Aussies out, it doesn’t mean we won’t have armed forces, but it does mean we won’t get dragged into any more NATO nonsense.
Small nitpick, Te Kaha is pronounced T-Ka-Ha. You did really well with Aotearoa considering your accent.
@carlosmerinodianderas4209
I don’t blame the Australians, because after their terrible defeat in the Emu War they had to pay war reparations to the Emu King and try to rebuild their army with what little they had left.
@johnwick9273
China is simply protecting its trade routes with Australia from disruption, even if the disruptor is Australia.
@Pine_Gap_Island
As an Australian, you wouldn’t believe the hysteria the media here had over this. Every few months there’s an “incident” involving the Australian Navy being “attacked” by China, and the map it shows doesn’t even feature the Hemisphere that Australia is located in (it almost always happens right next to China). It was a pleasant surprise to have our biggest trading partner provide us an “incident” closer to home for once.
The propaganda here is almost British level… almost. But I think most people don’t really give a stuff about China one way or another, they just want their cheap, reliable gadget.
@snapper69996666
China was only doing what we have been doing to China for decades.
@Lightning_aus
as an aussie, the recruiting/retention issue is quite bad, we have had multiple warships in dry dock because of a lack of crews available. the people of australia aren’t interested in serving a defence force/government that is seen as not caring about its people.
@Warren_Peace
The Australians have the same problem as Canada and the EU. They rely on the US for their national defense to the point that their military is practically useless unless they are against some random fishermen on wooden boats..
@pierredelecto7069
640km is international waters all day long. We don’t tell China when we sail our ships around China, and we get 10x closer.
@darwinbruce59
New Zealand would’ve sent a boat to chase them away, BUT our navy boat is still identifying as a submarine.
@SevenCostanza
As someone who did 12 years in the australian military, i can confirm first hand that we are basically useless outside of planned excercises
@nobeer9785
You have to mention that past 5 decades, how many times Anglo Saxon (including Australian Navy) has done military drills near Chinese Water over East China Sea and Yellow China Sea.
This is basically a message to Australia that, you can do it, China can do it.
Original source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhJroQnb1BI