By any measure, China’s four main choices for forcing unification with Taiwan—subversion, quarantine, blockade, or invasion—would all have far-reaching consequences for Beijing and the wider ...

However, this would be a dangerous underestimation of CCP ambitions and its broader and more profound military response to ...

When it comes to the Taiwan question, some Japanese politicians have been proclaiming that "a Taiwan emergency is a Japanese ...

The US returns as a seller of critical anti-ballistic systems, but remains neutral, with no ideological standpoint.

Trump is pressing US allies to increase their defence expenditure. Anthony Albanese has wisely responded that the Australian government will decide how much we spend on defence, and not the US.

After jumping from half a dozen C-17A transport aircraft, US Army paratroopers dropped silently from the starry sky, their ...

Donald Trump’s defence undersecretary Elbridge Colby is reviewing the AUKUS pact and could suggest big changes, but defence ...

A report by the Coalition Defense of Taiwan said that a Russian defeat in Ukraine would weaken Moscow, one of China’s most important partners, and allow the West to focus on building alliances in the ...

AN IMPOSING US-UK armada has taken to the water as part of the allied Exercise Talisman Sabre war drills. The ...

Beyond alliances, Australia is shaping its own path: trade with China, a wary eye on AUKUS, and sovereignty in action.

It used to be 24 hours,” Lavrov said of Trump’s pledge to end the Russia-Ukraine war within his first day in office. “It used ...

While they are impossible to measure, emotions such as liking or hatred, admiration or contempt—the quotidian stuff of human relations—play a crucial part in making and unmaking alliances. Personal ...