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“The capitalist politicians aren’t going to make any changes, because they’re the ones who have brought us to this situation in the first place.”

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) announced Tuesday that the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) had issued an order to pull out the movie "Uncharted" from theaters for a scene that depicts the controversial U-shaped line in the South China Sea which China uses as the legal basis of…

The head of the US Indo-Pacific Command, Admiral John Aquilino, who last year declared that war against China was “much closer than most think,” described Australia as an “extremely high-end partner.”

While the Solomon Islands is divided on the security deal with China, Australia's major parties have been shouting from the same song book. Binoy Kampmark reports. 

Visits to Honiara, part plea, part threat.  Delegations equipped with a note of harassment.  That was the initial Australian effort

In the AFR I write that the spectre of Chinese nuclear submarines, destroyers, fighters, and bombers based in the Solomon Islands, merely 1,752 kilometres from Australia’s mainland – and closer than New Zealand – brings the looming prospect of global conflict right to our doorstep. Many readers might not...

Visits to Honiara, part plea, part threat. Delegations equipped with a note of harassment. That was the initial Australian effort to convince the Solomon Islands that the decision to make a security pact with Beijing was simply not appropriate in the lotus land of Washington’s Pacific empire. Despite an election campaign warming up, Senator Zed

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Government sources say Australia played a role in leaking the Chinese security deal with Solomon Islands – claims that appear to contradict statements made by two ministers.