China extends reach in South Pacific with Cook Islands deal
No details have been released, but analysts and environmentalists fear it will pave the way for closer security ties and the ...
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China in the Indo-Pacific: January 2025
This month, a spy scandal in the Philippines and Myanmar’s civil war highlighted China’s controversial involvement in the ...
Pacific commander urges faster arming of forces
SPC. 1ST CLASS JOHN BELLINO / U.S. NAVY Adm. Samuel J. Paparo, commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, delivered a keynote address Thursday at the Hawaii Military Affairs Council’s biannual State of ...
‘Sign of things to come’: Chinese warships off Australian coastline exposes ‘dangerous’ threat
The appearance of a flotilla of Chinese warships in Australian waters just days after a deadly clash involving a surveillance ...
US Commander Warns of China, Russia, North Korea ‘Troublemakers’
China, Russia and North Korea have formed a “triangle of troublemakers” that threatens to transform the Pacific region, a ...
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How Do the Most Powerful Missiles in the US Arsenal Compare to Russia's and China's?
The United States spends vastly more on its military than any of its enemies, but that has not made us secure from the most destructive weapons on the planet: nuclear-armed ballistic missiles. In fact ...
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America’s rivalry with China will intensify, but must not escalate into war, writes Nicholas Burns
China and America are also waging a bitter battle of ideas. China defends authoritarianism, whereas America, at least until ...
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U.S. Could Bolster Missile Defense with New Sensors Within a Year, NORTHCOM Says
Within a year, the United States could have a single integrated grid of sensors from under the sea to space to bolster its ...
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Chinese Fighter Harassed Australian Surveillance Aircraft Over South China Sea, Official Say
A People’s Liberation Army Air Force J-16 fighter released flares 30 meters away in front of a Royal Australian Air Force ...
The White House says it’s a ‘fact’ that the Gulf of Mexico has been renamed. Is that right?
For more than four centuries, the body of water stretching from Florida through Texas and into Mexico has been known as the ...
Opinion - Trump must treat China, Iran, Russia and North Korea as a package deal
President Trump has begun reinstating many of America’s hardline positions with respect to both China and Iran. And that is a ...
Australia criticises 'unsafe' Chinese fighter jet interaction in South China Sea
Australia has raised concerns with China over what it said was "unsafe and unprofessional" actions by a Chinese fighter jet towards an Australian maritime patrol in the South China Sea on Tuesday. A ...