Satellite photos tell Ukraine story
Tiny Snake Island has hosted some fierce fighting during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, as new satellite photos show, Space.com reports.
Snake Island is a...
Seapower conference’s Indo-Pacific focus
Maritime leaders from nine nations joined Australia’s Chief of Navy, Vice Admiral Michael Noonan, at the Indo-Pacific Sea Power 2022 conference in outlining common...
Diplomacy’s big Pacific role
By Sam Roggeveen*
There was barely concealed panic in Australia when news broke that China had struck a security agreement with Solomon Islands. What if...
Seapower stresses free, open and prosperous Indo-Pacific
Australia’s Defence leaders opened the Sea Power 2022 conference in Sydney on May 10, by outlining the importance of working with like-minded partners for...
Making Australia fit for AUKUS
By Lesley Seebeck*
The early days in any great undertaking can be chaotic. The AUKUS partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States...
China’s robust ship-building
By Matthew P. Funaiole, Brian Hart, Joseph S. Bermudez Jr.
The global shipping industry is enjoying record profits, and merchant fleets are growing quickly to meet...
Ukraine giving China fear over Taiwan
By Robert Wihtol*
When Russia attacked Ukraine in late February, many were afraid that a Chinese assault on Taiwan would be next. After all, President...
China and the Solomons – is the sky really falling?
By Clive Williams*
China’s security pact with the Solomons took less than a week to go from being a framework security agreement to being a...
Nuanced settling of maritime disputes
Maritime disputes in Southeast Asia should be viewed less as a single big basket of problems, and more as smaller individual problems with their...
The Solomon Islands and the China Coast Guard
By Tim Coyle*
The eruption of hysteria on both sides of the political sphere, coincidently in the middle of an election campaign, has again demonstrated the...