The maritime incident involving a Chinese warship aiming a military-grade laser at an Australian surveillance aircraft was designed to test the response of allied forces in the region, according to a diplomacy expert.
“I always thought if China wanted to probe America in the South China Sea, or they wanted to probe the Australian-American connection, they would attack an Australian ship first,” Joseph Siracusa, adjunct professor in international diplomacy at Curtin University, told The Epoch Times.
