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Rarely has the Solomon Islands had as much attention as this. Despite being in caretaker mode as it battles the

How Beijing’s claims to the South China Sea have crept imperceptibly into global popular culture.

Bryan Kristopowitz checks in with his review of the sci-fi action sequel Occupation: Rainfall featuring Temuera Morrison and Ken Jeong.

As a child Rachel Noble always thought her father was an engineer – the nation’s top cyber spy had no idea he was actually a spy.

For as long as it has existed, art has remained an important medium in showcasing various perspectives towards social and political issues in our society…

The budget papers explicitly refer to “an increasingly assertive China,” dispensing with the previous norm of references to “mounting tensions” with unnamed “foreign adversaries.”

The secret Five Eyes intelligence alliance grew out of cold war cooperation between the UK and US to monitor the Soviet Union. Now it's focused on China, and the US is keen to recruit new members.

The impression given was that of a temple burgled by blaspheming reprobates. But Australian politicians were having none of it. A draft official document published online by an adviser to the Malaita Provincial Government of Premier Daniel Suidani suggested that China was considering some military presence in The Solomons. In its current form, Beijing would

US accelerating defense integration with ‘extremely high-end partner’ | 2022-03-29 12:37:00

Aquilino’s focus on the “threat” posed by China is simply the pretext for a massive US military build-up in the Indo-Pacific and the forging of closer alliances, strategic partnerships and basing arrangement across the region.