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A former member of the United States Navy’s top brass says he hopes Australia would send its nuclear powered submarines to support America if there is a war over Taiwan.Ex-US Navy secretary Richard Spencer addressed the National Press…

As China’s president Xi Jinping is scheduled to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin next week, a retired Canadian Vice Admiral is warning that China is attempting to create a new global order. Vice Admiral Mark Norman said…

Paul Keating was not the only veteran of bruising political battles to offer free advice last week. Ken Henry, head of treasury during the Howard and Rudd years, spoke to the Tax Institute. The speech was highbrow. His jokes veered dry:…

The man tasked with stabilising trade relations with China is “very confident” both he and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will still visit China this year, despite Beijing’s strong criticism of the AUKUS deal.But the Opposition has…

Australian military planners have been increasingly concerned about the increase of grey-zone warfare: acts including trade embargoes that fall somewhere between what is traditionally viewed as war and peace.LoadingA shipping blockade…

China is angry that Australia’s building eight submarines. Meanwhile it’s busily expanding its own fleet to 70. It’s part of what Chairman Xi Jinping this week declared will be a “Great Wall of Steel”. And neighbouring countries are…

A top Canberra defence expert has lashed Australia’s multi-billion dollar AUKUS submarine project as amounting to a promise to follow the US into a war against China.The Australian National University’s Hugh White, an emeritus professor…

South Australia and its “transformative” shipbuilding industry under the AUKUS security pact will be central to the nation’s diplomatic mission of countering China’s rising belligerence in our region, Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong…

Albanese, Wong, Marles and other members of the cabinet have all hit back at Keating’s claims, with the prime minister describing as absurd the claim that Australia was ceding sovereign control over its defence capabilities.But Garrett…

Wong also fired back at Keating, saying his refusal to condemn Beijing’s human rights abuses would have been “distressing” for the Uyghur community in Australia.Asked during his National Press Club appearance about China’s treatment of…