Andrew Bolt: West’s words no match for China’s warplanes

By sending a record number of bombers, fighters and spy planes into Taiwan’s air space, China gave an up-yours to G7 leaders. Was this a practice run for war?

While the West sends words, China sends warplanes. Picture: AFP

It took just two days for China to give the West two fingers for telling it to not even think of invading Taiwan.

It’s sent 28 bombers, fighters and spy planes – the most yet – to fly into Taiwan’s air space.

The timing of this terrorising was a brutal up-yours.

On Sunday, the leaders of the big G7 democracies, including the US, Japan and Britain, warned China they “strongly oppose any unilateral attempts to change the status quo” with Taiwan, an island democracy of 24 million people that China claims.

While the West sends words, China sends warplanes. Picture: AFP

On Monday, the NATO military alliance of the West told China to stop its “assertive behaviour”.

But while the West sends words, China sends warplanes.

On Tuesday, its air force again buzzed Taiwan in what could be a testing of Taiwan’s defences – or a practice run for the war that China’s dictator this year told his army to prepare for.

How ready do we look for the war that China so clearly threatens?