While new books offer topicality, occasionally it pays to revisit the classics for a reality check on the essentials of continuity and change. Published 60 years ago, TB Millar’s Australia’s Defence is one such seminal …
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Picture yourself on a battlefield. It’s cold, the snow covers the ground, yet the sun shines brightly overhead. You gaze over the landscape and at your fellow soldiers. The prospects for the future seem grim. …
In a rhetorical escalation, the Chinese Communist Party’s flagship newspaper compared Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to the Nazis, echoing Russia’s justification for its invasion of Ukraine. This is part of China’s broader pattern …
In an article in The Australian, China’s ambassador to Australia, Xiao Qian, informed Australians that China would mark the 80th anniversary of victory in the Chinese people’s war of resistance against Japanese aggression and the …
For Poland, Russian aggression is not an abstract or distant possibility; it is an experience embedded in national history. This experience has been shaped by repeated encounters with an eastern neighbour whose imperial ambitions have, …