Quote Originally Posted by Davexl View Post
Don't forget about the South China Sea / Taiwan - the Phillipines is preparing for war, buying supersonic stand-off cruise misslies,

https://www.benarnews.org/english/news/philippine/philippines-to-buy-indias-brahmos-supersonic-missiles-01142022133408.html

NZ should do the same - if it had any sense, but the NZ Defence Force is stupid, given we have no effective combatants to speak of...
To defeat an adversary, first understand why & how the adversary behaves.

The West really has no idea what makes China tick - listen carefully to the answers from this China specialist :

https://youtu.be/3BO5CZgP-eE

No wonder China is charging ahead on all fronts while the West & the US in particular are getting left behind.