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Former Australian prime ministers Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull have warned the federal government not to raise fears of China for political gain.

An Off-the-Shelf Guide to Extended Continental Shelves and the Arctic A Canadian Coast Guard Ship in the Arctic Ocean. (U.S. Geological Survey, https://flic.kr/p/7EbKVD; CC0 1.0, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) On March 31, the Russian Federation partially revised its submission for an “extended” continental shelf in the Arctic, further overlapping Russia’s claims with Canada’s and Denmark’s. Despite political and academic experts calling for a calm response, CBC, ...

Ensuring a consistent approach to the “rules” would make it that much harder for China to break them.

South China Sea: Beijings military (Image: GETTY) This would include the demolishing of structures that rival nations have constructed on reefs that China claims sovereignty over. Mr Locsin described the act a "threat of war", adding: “While enacting law is a sovereign prerogative, this one – given the area involved or for that matter the open South China Sea – is a verbal threat of war to any country that defies the law; which, if unchallenged, is submission to it." It makes the US inter...

Australia’s tourism and education exports to China would appear most in the firing line. So it proved, if not for the pandemic as much as politics. Wild speculation about the source of Covid-19 didn’t help, any more than Beijing’s brittle attitude to media criticism. China slapped tariffs on imports of Australian barley, beef and wine, banning seafood, timber and coal. “The moves follow a familiar playbook”, wrote Darren Lim and Victor Ferguson, “in which the Chinese government reli...