Old alliances and new challenges from China
Historic relations between Australia, New Zealand and the US are even more relevant amid geopolitical risks
United States
Any port in a storm no longer applies amid China curbs
Shocking shipping news forces up the costs of moving goods and fuels fears of rising inflation
China spins a web of deceit with alternative news
Beijing’s disinformation campaign covers South China Sea tension, the Covid-19 crisis and human rights abuses
China’s ‘Taliban’ rhetoric triggers a Taiwan backlash
Taipei warns Beijing that the island will not collapse like Afghanistan amid invasion fears
Revisiting the Year of the Spy
Super agent Larry Wu-Tai Chin’s ‘steely nerve is alive and well among China’s espionage’ fraternity
China left isolated by foreign policy war of words
Beijing’s international relations with the US and its allies reach an all-time low
China and the US tiptoe through a diplomatic minefield
Sparks look certain to fly when US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman meets Wang Yi
China’s cyber threat in a lawless digital world
Cyberattacks directed by other governments could amount to acts of war
How the United States was mugged in space by China
Beijing appears to have pulled off a massive out-of-this-world heist to become a space superpower
Japan wakes up to the China threat to Taiwan
Tokyo’s annual defense review talks about ’stabilizing’ the situation surrounding the island democracy