Get behind Southeast Asia with clear policy against China bullies
Originally published in The Australian
By Malcolm Cook
Sunday 09 Aug 2020 | 16:10 | SYDNEY
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Regional security depends on making order from chaos
Originally published in The Australian
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Australian diplomacy could ease rising tensions across the Taiwan Strait, if Australian policymakers rediscovered an appetite for involvement in the flashpoint
Bring Australia’s Navy home from the Middle East
Last Wednesday, the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) frigate HMAS Warramunga docked at Garden Island, ending a nine-month deployment to the western Indian Ocean. It was the 66th deployment of an Australian warship to the Middle East region, part of an almost continuous Australian
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David Axe’s recent War is Boring article on China’s new Type 055-class cruiser focused on its bristling load of vertical-launch missile cells. The Type-055 carries 112 cells (not 122, as Axe states), which almost matches the US Navy’s Ticonderoga-class cruisers and exceeds the 96 launchers on
By Euan Graham