In separate agreements with Nauru, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, Australia is attempting to edge out China’s influence in the region.
Australia has agreed to extradite a former Marines pilot who the U.S. has accused of training Chinese pilots more than a decade ago. Australian Attorney General Mark Dreyfus confirmed in a
Australia’s government announced that live rock lobster exports to China will resume immediately, following a notification from China that trade restrictions have been lifted
Australia will provide over $100 million to help the Solomon Islands, which also has security ties with China, expand its police force so it can reduce its reliance on external partners, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Friday.
Duggan is accused by the U.S. of training Chinese military pilots in landing on aircraft carriers in coordination with a South African flight school, which authorities said dated back to the early 2010s, according to an indictment dated from 2017 and unsealed two years ago.
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Australia will provide over $100 million to the Solomon Islands to expand its police force so the Pacific Islands nation, which also has security ties with China, can reduce its reliance on external partners,
Australia and New Zealand ministers agreed to uphold the 1951 ANZUS Treaty, which would automatically involve both countries in a US war against China.
The centre-left leader has spent much of his time in office trying to improve the trade relationship with China, Australia's biggest trade partner. At the same time, Australia is part of a loose ...
In an increasingly uncertain world, Malaysia cannot afford to take its defence relationship with Australia for granted.
Daniel Duggan’s lawyers have argued a lack of evidence and that he was no longer a US citizen at the time of the alleged offences.
China and India have sought in recent weeks to ease a tense military standoff along their mountainous frontier. The drawn-out standoff, triggered by China’s furtive encroachments on the icy borderlands of India’s Ladakh region in 2020, has fostered rival military buildups and intermittent clashes along the Himalayas.