Injuring Divers With Sonar Shows Us What the CCP Really Thinks

More worrying is the refusal by the Australian PM to reveal whether he raised the matter during his recent meeting with Xi.

The type 052C destroyer Haikou of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy participates in a naval parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the founding of China's PLA Navy in the sea near Qingdao, in eastern China's Shandong province on April 23, 2019. Mark Schiefelbein/AFP via Getty Images

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Imagine the outcry from the Chinese regime if an Australian naval vessel had set off its sonar system at divers from a People’s Liberation Army Navy ship, while they were attempting to disentangle fishing nets from their propeller while stuck in another country’s economic zone.