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PrSM missile test in the NT.

The game-changing new missile that could halt China

The Australian Army has just tested a new US missile that can fly faster and further, and could shift the balance in any Pacific confrontation.

  • Benedict Smith

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House push to build more ships has questioned Australia’s commitment to AUKUS and its readiness to help the US fight China.

‘Noticeably fickle’: Trump’s new submarine chief a critic of Australia

Jerry Hendrix, who leads a White House push to build more ships and submarines, has often questioned Australia’s commitment to AUKUS and its readiness to help the US fight China.

  • Michael Koziol
“I don’t identify as a member of the national security community”: Elbridge Colby says he maintains a maverick streak.

‘Bridge’ Colby: Who is the ‘maverick’ putting AUKUS through the wringer?

The China hawk, who is now third-in-charge at the Pentagon and is reviewing the submarine deal, has quickly courted controversy. So what does he want from Australia?

  • Michael Koziol
Nanxi Shopping District near the Zhongshan metro station in Taipei.

The coolest part of this Asian city is actually underneath it

A visit to Zhongshan, one of Taipei’s up-and-coming neighbourhoods, is not normally on the dance card of first-time visitors to the Taiwanese capital.

  • Kerry van der Jagt
Former PM Malcolm Turnbull has been critical of the AUKUS deal.

Any AUKUS pledges ‘won’t be worth paper they’re written on’: Turnbull

The former prime minister says it is impossible for Australia to promise nuclear-powered submarines for a hypothetical contingency.

  • Michael Koziol
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his fiancee, Jodie Haydon, walk along the Bund with former Socceroo and Shanghai Port FC manager Kevin Muscat.

Albanese’s sunny welcome in Shanghai overshadowed by AUKUS dilemma

Recent engagements between Australia and China have been dripping in niceties, but the shadow of Trump looms over the prime minister’s six-day tour through China.

  • Paul Sakkal
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A missile is launched from an unspecified location in China in response to then US speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan in August 2022.

As China prepares to invade Taiwan, a reality check: sitting on the sidelines won’t help us

Australia must prepare. China attacking Taiwan is not inevitable, but if it happens, it will become a wide-ranging Indo-Pacific conflict.

  • Jennifer Parker
Taiwan’s Vice President, Hsiao Bi-khim,

Taiwan’s vice president went to Europe. China followed and ‘planned intimidation’

Beijing denied any wrongdoing by Chinese diplomats and urged the parties involved “to not make a fuss over nothing”.

  • Jan Lopatka and Yimou Lee
Richard Huang, who requested his identity be concealed with a pseudonym, promotes Beijing funded trips to Taiwanese youth.

‘Aren’t you worried you are being brainwashed?’ The junket that left Richard’s friends on edge

The discounted tour to China included four-star hotels, nightly banquets, and speeches about being “one big family”.

  • Lisa Visentin and Daniel Ceng
US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

A US attack on Iran would show the limits of China’s power

China, which depends on Iran for oil and to counter American influence, has a lot to lose from a wider war. But there’s not much it can do about it.

  • David Pierson, Keith Bradsher and Berry Wang

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