Ghostnav,
Fully agree, they don't have the capability to engage/invade the islands as far as we know, this is just sabre rattling. I think we should deploy Astute with a full warload of Tomahawks and Spearfish, that will shut them up. A gentle up scaling of land forces can be done without too much notice. The Typhoons at MPA are more than capable covering the local airspace. They only have two Herc tankers after all. This is what stopped them mounting mass attacks in 30yrs ago. The fleet, though far smaller is much better equipped. Two T45s appropriately deployed would make them fish food.