When then secretary of defense Jim Mattis changed the name of US Pacific Command to ‘Indo-Pacific Command’ in 2018, he said the command boundaries stretched from Bollywood to Hollywood and from polar bears to penguins. …
The AUKUS ‘independent’ inquiry opened last week with a familiar list of concerns from long-time critics of the program. Witnesses pointed to risks ranging from the industrial base to the prospect that reactor fuel disposed …
China’s security footprint was once confined to its immediate neighbourhood. That time is now past. Under the leadership of Xi Jinping since 2013, China has steadily extended its presence across the Indian and Pacific oceans, …
In late February, the United States and Russia found themselves without an agreement about the disposition of their major strategic nuclear weapons for the first time in more than 20 years. The previous international agreement …
Canberra’s Horizon 2 Action Plan, released on 11 June, and the Department of Home Affairs’ March acceptance of Jill Slay’s independent review of the Security of Critical Infrastructure (SOCI) Act are both serious attempts to …
Last month’s Shangri-La Dialogue again showed that the real task of sustaining maritime rules in the South China Sea had fallen to those states willing and able to uphold them. Japanese Defence Minister Koizumi underscored …
At the centre of the web is the China Council for the Promotion of Peaceful National Reunification. It creates a statement or a political line, and ‘peaceful reunification’ bodies all over the world act as …
