Flight to test China waters
The government is considering conducting “freedom of navigation” exercises in the South China Sea.
The government is considering conducting “freedom of navigation” exercises in the South China Sea.
Despite US weakness on Asia, it’s ready to project power in the region.
Canberra takes no position on the competing territorial claims in the South China Sea but objects to unilateral actions.
Creation of the job of Counter-Terrorism Co-ordinator may be counterproductive.
Recently I saw a remarkable film in which three or four moments are so stunning as to be ineradicable from memory.
The non-engagement with Asia is just part of a broader foreign policy failure.
The Air Warfare Destroyer program will run about $2bn over budget and be nearly three years late, an audit shows.
It seems we will probably be hosting some American B-1 supersonic precision bombers after all.
The Americans are planning freedom of navigation moves close to disputed islands.
Momentum is building strongly for the US to confront China over its military build-up on artificial islands.
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