How to stop Chinese takeover of South China Sea
By Jeff Becker*
China appears to be accelerating its campaign to control the South China Sea and the Senkaku Islands (pictured) in the East China...
Australia likely to join Indian Malabar exercise
By Aarti Betigeri*
Australia’s strategy on engaging India has long revolved around the so-called “three Cs”: cricket, curry and the Commonwealth. In light of the changing...
US joins Black Sea exercise
The US warship Porter entered the Black Sea on Sunday to take part in an annual NATO exercise, days after Russia placed its Black...
US challenges Venezuela’s maritime claims
For the second time in three weeks, U.S. Southern Command has sent a Navy warship through waters off the coast of Venezuela, the combatant...
Trilateral passage bolsters ties
Australia, Japan and the United States conducted a trilateral passage in the Philippine Sea en route to participate in Exercise Rim of the Pacific...
US carriers exercise in South China Sea
The Nimitz and Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike groups picked up high-end dual-carrier exercises in the South China Sea again July 17 — a move...
China uses stadium-style lights to scoop $560m of squid
Hundreds of ships from China's distant-water fishing fleet have hoovered up more than 160,000 tonnes of Pacific flying squid, worth more than $560 million,...
Taking China-India clash to the high seas
By David Brewster*
Last month’s clash between Indian and Chinese troops in Ladakh was the most significant conflict between the two countries since 1967. Despite...
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...