"How would Australia react if Chinese ISR (Intelligence ,Surveillance,Reconnaissance) planes were similarly operating off its coast probing its defences and dropping sonobuoys to detect its submarines?

How and why Australia exercises its rights in the South China Sea have become key policy questions. The Albanese administration’s choices could lead to kinetic conflict. The Australian people need to know the rationale behind them.

Like all nations, Australia has a right to a military presence in the South China Sea. But how and why it exercises that right have become key policy questions. Should Australia risk kinetic conflict with China with its aerial intelligence probes along its coast and possible Freedom of Navigation Operations (FONOPs) challenging its maritime claims – – all in support of the U.S strategy to contain China?"