Right now, Beijing has intercontinental missiles trained on Australia.

While our political leaders fight over how best to manage the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Virus, the evidence is mounting that the CCP is preparing for war.

According to their propaganda mouthpiece The Global Times, Beijing will launch a “retaliatory punishment” missile strike “with conventional warheads” if Australia assists the US in the event of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.

Not only that, we learned this week that the CCP is building a new network of nuclear missile silos, the second expansion identified by security analysts in recent weeks.

All up, they are building potentially 230 new nuclear missile silos, a sign the CCP is trying to strengthen the readiness of its nuclear arsenal.

The Chinese communist propaganda chief who runs The Global Times said China should neither confirm nor deny the reports, but “let the Western media imagine it”.

“This is what nuclear deterrent means,” Hu Xijin said.

But there is a ray of light amid all this alarming news: at least some of our politicians have our back.

Senator Jim Molan, who knows his stuff after serving in the Australian Army as a Major General, is warning that the Australian Defence Force would be unlikely to last a few days in a high-end conflict with China.

He said our military is not as lethal, sustainable or as massive as it needs to be.

Even more concerning is a 30-50 per cent reduction of the size of the US military capability since the end of the last cold war, and a US President who at best doesn’t know what day it is and at worst is completely compromised by the CCP.

While we should always do everything we can to strengthen our alliance with the US, perhaps it’s time we grew up and learnt to take care of ourselves.

At the very least, this would make us a better ally to our friends and a less attractive target to any high powered aggressor because of our ability to inflict an unacceptable military cost.

Meanwhile, Labor and the Greens do all they can to ramp up the climate alarmism, which plays right into the CCP’s hands.

As former PM Tony Abbott said this week, you know China is happy to pile on the moral pressure against the West in global climate forums because it can sell us solar panels and pre-fabricated wind farms.

At the same time, the CCP will never cut its own emissions ahead of boosting its economy.

The result? China gets stronger, Australia gets weaker.

This is exactly what the CCP wants and our job is to make sure it doesn’t happen.

Instead of bending the knee to climate alarmism, we have to bolster our manufacturing base and guarantee cheap, reliable energy. That’s the only way we can ensure an Australia that can stand on its own two feet and defend itself no matter what.