Four Waves of Australia’s Relationships: UK, US, Japan and China 06 JUN 2018
By John Menadue AO FAIIA*
Waves of foreign investment and trade have been essential features of Australian development. In our burgeoning relationship with China, we...
Australian Naval Historical Society’s newsletter
The Jun 2018 edition of Call to Hands, the Australian Naval Historical Society’s monthly newsletter can be downloaded from the society's website https://www.navyhistory.org.au/research/
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China’s Spratly claim just a mistake
By Bill Hayton*
The South China Sea is a dangerous place because of the layering of several different struggles on top of one another. There...
SA shipyard redevelopment in full swing
The redevelopment of the Osborne South Naval Shipyard in Adelaide is in full swing, with earthworks at the site finishing up in April. Providing...
HMAS Platypus opened to public
The first stage of one of Sydney’s hidden foreshore gems, the former torpedo factory and submarine base HMAS Platypus, has been be officially opened...
South China Sea: Paracels in the spotlight
By Sam Bateman*
In May, two US Navy warships sailed through and near the Paracel group of islands claimed and occupied by China in the...
Japan’s plans to build a “Free and Open” Indian Ocean
By David Brewster*
While many eyes are on China’s port investments in the Indian Ocean, Japan has also been busy. The scale of its infrastructure...
The Great Game in the Indian Ocean
By Chad Pillai*
There is a growing strategic competition underway in the Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea between India and China focused on acquiring commercial...
Australia’s real choice about China
By Hugh White*
Australia’s problem with China is bigger and simpler than we think, and thus harder to solve. It isn’t that Beijing doesn’t like...
To each their own Indo-Pacific
By Allan Gyngell AO FAIIA*
The number of countries that find the Indo-Pacific a useful way of interpreting the world is growing. But each country...