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Between Feb and March, China’s Navy played war games in Australia’s economic zone and jammed flights across the Tasman. It’s diplomacy—if your idea of diplomacy is showing up uninvited and blocking the internet like a toddler on a hotspot.

Between February and March, China’s navy quietly ran war drills inside Australia’s economic zone and managed to jam flights over New Zealand in the process.

Communications went down. Commercial aircraft reported interference. Internet services got patchy.

Nobody fired a missile, but the message was still loud. The cause? Radar emissions.

High-powered military equipment operating just close enough to civilian infrastructure to make a mess.

China called it routine. Australia and New Zealand called it out—but softly.

No one wants to escalate. Especially not over airspace noise and dropped signals.

But it’s a problem.

This isn’t the first time Chinese naval exercises have crossed into allied zones.

It likely won’t be the last.

The pattern is clear: show up unannounced, flex some hardware, leave just enough chaos behind to raise eyebrows.

It’s not war. It’s pressure—deliberate, visible, and plausible enough to deny.

The bigger issue isn’t radar.

It’s what happens when these stunts overlap with real-world operations—commercial flights, internet infrastructure, cargo routes.

You don’t need conflict for things to go wrong.

All you need is one near miss. So far, the response has been measured.

Statements, alerts, reviews.

But there’s a limit to how often “just exercises” can keep getting a pass.

Especially when civilian systems start failing on the sidelines.

📡 Summary: China didn’t break anything permanently. But they came close.

And if this is the new normal, it’s one glitch away from turning real.

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