Geopolitics

Taiwan should be in RIMPAC: US law

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Taiwan should be invited to the world's largest naval exercise next year, according to the US' 2022 Defence spending blueprint signed into law by...

Ties with Japan send China a message

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By Peter Jennings* One of the strengths in Australia’s relationship with Japan is our shared ability to deliver substance as opposed to verbal bombast unmoored...

Warning time running out: Beazley

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By Brendan Nicholson* Former defence minister Kim Beazley has delivered a sobering comparison between how Australia dealt with the lead-up to World War II and...

Chinese Naval Task Group escort shipping in Gulf of Aden

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A PLA-N task group consisting of the guided-missile destroyer Urumqi, guided-missile frigate Yantai and the replenishment ship Taihu is operating in the Gulf of...

A re-think on AUKUS and subs

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By Sam Roggeveen* I don’t think it’s hyperbole to say that AUKUS – the tripartite defence technology agreement which promises to deliver at least eight...

US to push back against Chinese assertiveness

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The United States will expand its military and economic relationships with partners in Asia to push back against China’s increasing assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific,...

China rejects US NPT claim about AUKUS

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A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson on Friday rejected a U.S. claim concerning Australia-U.K.-U.S. (AUKUS) trilateral nuclear submarine cooperation, urging the three not to go...

Put simply there is no Quad

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By Nicholas Stuart* This column was meant to be about the Quad - the pretend construct that Australia, India, Japan and the US are networking...

AUKUS and other alliances explained

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In the new Strategic Insight 'What is AUKUS and what is it not? How does it connect to the Quad, the Sydney Dialogue, ASEAN...

Could Lombrum, PNG, be joint naval base

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What is your assessment of the development of Lombrum as an Australian/U.S. naval facility? Where do you think this is headed? Could it turn...