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Pork barrels blocking our defense build-up vs China
China’s annexation of Taiwan will all the more threaten the Philippines. Only 97 kilometers, or 52.4 miles, separate Batanes ...
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China flexes military muscle far from its shores
Alarm bells ring in Australia after its military discovers that vessels from the Asian superpower are conducting naval maneuvers in the Tasman Sea. In Australia, they learned that the Chinese army was ...
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A Shot Across the Bow: China Signals New Era of Sea Power in the Southwest Pacific
The live-fire exercises were a demonstration of China’s growing sea power in Australia and New Zealand’s immediate periphery ...
Cook Islands’ China deal a ‘nightmare scenario’ for Australia
New Zealand is facing its own ‘Solomon Islands moment’ over a shock deal between China and the Cook Islands that clears the ...
Analysis: Winston Peters walks a 'tricky' diplomatic line in Beijing
Analysis: Foreign Minister Winston Peters walked a tricky diplomatic line in Beijing this week when suggesting that a lack of notice about China's navy ship visit to the Tasman had been a failure in ...