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The chair of the NATO military committee, Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone.

NATO chief plans Australian visit with China concerns a top priority

While Donald Trump’s push to control Greenland is grabbing the headlines, NATO’s top military brass warn that threats in Asia will have global ramifications.

  • David Crowe

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In this photo provided by the Philippine Coast Guard, personnel treat wounded fishermen inside their vessel at the disputed South China Sea on Saturday.

Philippines says three fishermen injured by Chinese water cannons in South China Sea

Chinese coast guard ships used powerful water cannons and blocking manoeuvres against 20 Philippine fishing boats off a disputed South China Sea shoal, the Philippine coast guard said.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, foreground, arrives for the ASEAN-Australia summit as part of the ASEAN summit, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. (Chalinee Thirasupa/Pool Photo via AP)

World leader hosting ASEAN saves his final, careful words for Albanese

Of all the statements and speeches from Anwar Ibrahim over the past three days, it may have been his very last that meant the most to the Australian prime minister.

  • Zach Hope
The USS Higgins is shown passing through the Taiwan Strait in 2022.

‘The US severely undermined peace’: China says it ‘drove away’ US warship in South China Sea

The incident comes days after two Chinese ships collided while chasing a Philippine vessel near the disputed Scarborough Shoal.

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Chinese ships smash into each other while chasing Philippine boat, footage shows

A China Coast Guard vessel accidentally rammed into a People’s Liberation Army Navy ship in the South China Sea, resulting in “substantial damage”, the Philippine Coast Guard said.

  • Cliff Venzon
House push to build more ships has questioned Australia’s commitment to AUKUS and its readiness to help the US fight China.

‘Noticeably fickle’: Trump’s new submarine chief a critic of Australia

Jerry Hendrix, who leads a White House push to build more ships and submarines, has often questioned Australia’s commitment to AUKUS and its readiness to help the US fight China.

  • Michael Koziol
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra.

‘We’ll determine our defence policy’: PM pushes back on Hegseth pressure over China

Comments from the defence secretary have also drawn a furious response from Beijing, which says the US risks turning the Asia-Pacific region into a “powder keg”.

  • Lisa Visentin
Poland’s Radek Sikorski

Ex-war reporter turned foreign minister leading the charge to keep Russia – and China – in check

At a time when Europe’s leadership has been diffuse and distracted, Radek Sikorski has emerged as one of the West’s most forceful voices.

  • Rob Harris
The presence of Chinese research vessel, Tan Suo Yi Hao, tracking a route far off the south coast of Australia has generated days of political debate and prompted Beijing to deny that it is seeking to influence the federal election.

Beijing denounces spy vessel claims as smear campaign

Beijing has rebuffed suggestions that it is seeking to influence the federal election after one of its research vessels travelled past Australia’s southern coast.

  • Lisa Visentin
People’s Liberation Army-Navy Renhai-class cruiser Zunyi, and Fuchi-class replenishment vessel Weishanhu in the Tasman Sea.

Why Chinese warships off the coast were no bad thing for Australia

Many Australians seem to have missed a salient fact – our own navy conducts navigation operations and live firing exercises in the South China Sea.

  • Christopher Pyne