Thailand buys Chinese submarine
Thailand, one of the United States’ oldest allies in Asia, has reportedly signed a deal with China to buy a Chinese-built Type 039A (Thai-designated...
UK, US vessels in Taiwan Strait
A U.S. and U.K. warship transited the Taiwan Strait this month (September 2025) last week drawing protests from Beijing, USNI News has learned.
U.S. guided-missile...
US boarded Venezeulan tuna vessel
Personnel from a U.S. warship boarded a Venezuelan tuna boat with nine fishermen while it was sailing in Venezuelan waters, Venezuela’s foreign minister said...
The myth of Chinese domination
By Sam Roggeveen*
Australia’s former prime minister Tony Abbott wrote in the Wall Street Journal recently that “a world dominated by Beijing would resemble China,...
The important AUK part of AUKUS
By Andrew Horton*
In the unforgiving calculus of statecraft, moments of genuine strategic re-engineering are exceedingly rare, born not from choice but from the collision...
Countering China’s Pacific push
By Jason Lancaster*
Guadalcanal, the Coral Sea, Tarawa, New Guinea, and Iron Bottom Sound highlight the strategic location of the South Pacific during the Second...
Philippines opens base near Taiwan
The Philippines activated a new military base last week in the Luzon Strait in a move that the Philippine military claims will support the...
Self-reliance strengthens the alliance
By Jennifer Parker*
With Defence Minister Richard Marles back from a mysterious trip to the United States, the alliance is back in the spotlight, as...
AUKUS Pillar II needs focus
By Malcolm Davis*
Risk of failure is growing for AUKUS Pillar Two, the mechanism intended to turbocharge technology cooperation and deliver advanced military capabilities to...
Taiwan: Reflections on the alleged 2027 invasion date
By Carolin Kautz*
Has Xi Jinping ordered the People's Liberation Army to be ready to invade Taiwan by 2027? What do we know about this...