In recent months, China’s ‘One Belt, One Road’ (OBOR) initiative has become a major feature of Chinese foreign policy Read More
06/09/2025
Last week, in an article about the Australian defense budget hike, I mentioned, almost irrelevantly, that the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Read More
Clearly, the Chinese economy has problems, and now appears to be tumbling rather rapidly down along its so-called soft-landing path. Read More
WITH all the pomp, pageantry and protest-deterring security, which are traditional at such affairs, the annual session of China’s Read More
China is to strengthen its presence at sea to protect its territorial sovereignty and safeguard freedom of navigation in Chinese-administered Read More
President Barack Obama inherited a sensible Asia policy from President George W. Bush seven years ago. In the years since, Read More
The US deployment of military vessels and planes near the contested Spratly islands in the South China Sea has brought Read More
China is building aircraft carrier battlegroups and plans to deploy them not only in the disputed East and South China Read More
From a historical perspective, the term Silk Road was not commonly used until it was coined by German Geographer Ferdinand Read More
Whether Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull intended it or not, his new Defence White Paper has been widely interpreted as sending Read More
