China’s SCS strategy enters new phase
By Peter Leavy*
Recent Chinese maritime activity around the Second Thomas Shoal marks a potentially new and more aggressive stage in China’s campaign to extend...
AUKUS and strategic sovereignty
By Euan Graham and Bec Shrimpton*
In Australia, unlike Britain or the United States, AUKUS is subjected to a relentless barrage of criticism from various...
China testing Philippine resolve
Recent collisions between Chinese and Philippine ships in the South China Sea reflect Beijing’s aggressive behavior in the region and is clearly meant to...
Answering the AUKUS critics
Three years have passed since the United States, Australia and United Kingdom announced on September 15 2021 that they would enter into a security...
US, Italian ships and RAAF in South China Sea
The U.S. Navy and Italian Navies and the Royal Australian Air Force carried out four days of drills in the South China Sea last...
Russian ships lurk off US east coast
A nuclear Russian submarine carrying guided missiles with a range of 1,000 nautical miles is operating off the US East Coast as part of...
Quad is more than just about China
By Sudarshan Shrikhande
The Quad, as is well known, was born out of an immediate need to provide assistance to several coastal areas right across...
Big China-Russia naval exercise
The Russian Navy began a week-long, large-scale exercise called ‘Ocean 2024’ Pacific with Northern and Baltic fleets and the Caspian flotilla joining ships of...
China’s carrier strategy dissected
By Ben Ho*
Last month, Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) published a report that has a section outlining how China would likely use its aircraft...
AUKUS, Quad etc already deterring: Rudd
AUKUS and other military alliances involving the United States are already having a deterrent effect on China, Kevin Rudd has told a conference in...