Australia is ’being more realistic’ about possibility of war with China

Australia is “more realistic about where we are” in relation to war with China than the United States is, according to former US naval intelligence officer John Jordan. “The trick is understanding concepts that exist on a spectrum, it’s not all or nothing, it’s not military action or peace, there’s economic, there’s political, there’s intelligence, there’s different domains to conflict,” he told Sky News. “Right now the United States and Australia are engaged in several levels of some domains of conflict with China already, it hasn’t escalated, it hasn’t gotten very hot but certainly in terms economics that conflict has gone to a different level now.”