A significant intelligence failure to detect live-firing by Chinese warships near Australia, has exposed Defence weaknesses, and the fact that when it counts, we are all alone.
Indo-Pacific
NUKES IN THE HARBOUR
Remembering the first nuclear-powered submarine visit to Australia sometimes neglects one inconvenient fact – it was nuclear armed.
NO PEACE IN THE PACIFIC
Challenges lie ahead for a peaceful Pacific, as leaders of Pacific Island nations face an accelerating Western push to get them onside against China.
FRIENDS OR ALLIES
The United States sank the French submarines deal and formed the AUKUS military pact, to smash a new Indo-Pacific strategic alliance of France, Australia and India that wanted friendship with China.
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