Anthony Albanese has been grilled over China’s accusation the Australian military deliberately “trouble” when it approached Chinese airspace on Saturday. The prime minister trod lightly in his response when probed on the tense matter by Gareth Parker of Nine, which in partnership with Business News presented ‘Breakfast with the PrimeContinue Reading
China has just cut the ribbon on a mammoth new base on Australia’s doorstep, a remote and wintry outpost in Antarctica that the country insists poses no threat to the world. But some experts aren’t convinced, saying the facility is “inherently dual-use” and part of Beijing’s “strategic frontiers” – andContinue Reading
Australia, the United Kingdom and America will deploy advanced artificial intelligence to track and surveil submarines in the Asia-Pacific as part of a larger AUKUS-led collaboration to contain threats to democracies in the region, including from a rising China. Defence Minister Richard Marles announced the hi-tech push alongside his USContinue Reading
Australia’s wartime capabilities will be greatly bolstered under a new multibillion-dollar deal as nations gather for important war games. The federal government revealed on Monday plans to almost double the RAAF’s fleet of C-130 Hercules aircraft under a $9.8bn deal. The air force will begin receiving 20 new C130J aircraftContinue Reading
Chinese spy ships are expected to head towards Australian waters in coming days, ahead of joint military exercises with the United States and 11 other nations. Exercise Talisman Sabre 23 officially kicked off on Friday with an opening ceremony aboard HMAS Canberra at Sydney’s Fleet Base East. But since 2017,Continue Reading
Fears that China is developing “brain-disrupting” weapons have again been raised despite the dismissal of claims a mysterious syndrome afflicting US diplomats resulted from a deliberate attack. “Unknown to many, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its People’s Liberation Army (PLA) have established themselves as world leaders in the developmentContinue Reading
China calls it “War Z” – an allusion to Russia’s failed “Z-Force” invasion of Ukraine. And its recent study into a “total war” scenario in South East Asia predicts a similarly devastating outcome. The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) research group Unit 91404, part of China’s Institute of Command and TechnologyContinue Reading
The White House has warned that a sudden upsurge in Chinese military “aggressiveness” behind a series of near collisions in the sea and air could soon result in “casualties”. “It won’t be long before somebody gets hurt,” said National Security Council spokesman John Kirby. “That’s the concern with these unsafeContinue Reading
Social credit scores aren’t enough. All-pervading censorship doesn’t touch the sides. So now Chairman Xi Jinping wants his country to push ahead with constructing a “national security risk monitoring and early warning system” to find dissenters before they dissent. Addressing a meeting of the National Security Commission on Tuesday, XiContinue Reading
Canberra has urged Beijing to be more transparent about its military expansion as Australia’s Defence chief described the build-up as the biggest and most consequential undertaken by any nation since WWII. General Angus Campbell told a Senate estimates hearing on Tuesday Australia wouldn’t criticise any country for seeking to defendContinue Reading