Taiwan should be in RIMPAC: US law
Taiwan should be invited to the world's largest naval exercise next year, according to the US' 2022 Defence spending blueprint signed into law by...
Ties with Japan send China a message
By Peter Jennings*
One of the strengths in Australia’s relationship with Japan is our shared ability to deliver substance as opposed to verbal bombast unmoored...
Warning time running out: Beazley
By Brendan Nicholson*
Former defence minister Kim Beazley has delivered a sobering comparison between how Australia dealt with the lead-up to World War II and...
Chinese Naval Task Group escort shipping in Gulf of Aden
A PLA-N task group consisting of the guided-missile destroyer Urumqi, guided-missile frigate Yantai and the replenishment ship Taihu is operating in the Gulf of...
A re-think on AUKUS and subs
By Sam Roggeveen*
I don’t think it’s hyperbole to say that AUKUS – the tripartite defence technology agreement which promises to deliver at least eight...
US to push back against Chinese assertiveness
The United States will expand its military and economic relationships with partners in Asia to push back against China’s increasing assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific,...
China rejects US NPT claim about AUKUS
A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson on Friday rejected a U.S. claim concerning Australia-U.K.-U.S. (AUKUS) trilateral nuclear submarine cooperation, urging the three not to go...
Put simply there is no Quad
By Nicholas Stuart*
This column was meant to be about the Quad - the pretend construct that Australia, India, Japan and the US are networking...
AUKUS and other alliances explained
In the new Strategic Insight 'What is AUKUS and what is it not? How does it connect to the Quad, the Sydney Dialogue, ASEAN...
Could Lombrum, PNG, be joint naval base
What is your assessment of the development of Lombrum as an Australian/U.S. naval facility? Where do you think this is headed? Could it turn...