Time to decolonise Diego Garcia
By Peter Harris*
The United States military base on Diego Garcia has a problem: it is housed inside an unlawful jurisdiction, the British Indian Ocean...
Crisis: seafarers forced to stay at sea
By Jim Wilson, Policy & Communications Officer, Shipping Australia Limited*
Readers who live near ports may have wondered why merchant ships were sounding their horns...
Seafarers’ grim plight in the pandemic
By Sam Bateman*
Amid the many consequences of the coronavirus pandemic, thousands of seafarers around the world are now locked onboard their ships with expired...
China’s likely response if Vietnam takes legal action
Laura Zhou, Beijing Bureau, South China Morning Post, asked:
Over the past week there have been more open discussions in China about how China should...
China plants long-term seeds in South China Sea
By Ben Werner
China is tightening its grip on disputed claims in the South China Sea by beefing up its military capability and planting the...
Diego Garcia: India’s conundrum
By Abhijit Singh
The tug-of-war between the United Kingdom and Mauritius over Chagos archipelago – and the US military base on Diego Garcia – is...
US-Philippines: cooler heads prevail over time
By Malcolm Cook*
In January, President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines threatened to terminate the 1998 Philippine–US Visiting Forces Agreement—a treaty-level pact that provides the...
Australia must take Manus threat seriously
By Jeffrey Wall*
The Australian government must take very seriously the threat to the Manus Island joint naval base project outlined recently by a senior...
Australia and India join forces in flex at China
China has drawn Australia into its security tensions with India after New Delhi and Canberra signed a defense accord that could see their two...
US flexes naval strength in Indo-Pacific
For the first time in nearly three years, three American aircraft carriers are patrolling the Indo-Pacific waters, a massive show of naval force in...