As well as deploying police, China hosts Pacific officers for training and is showering cash-strapped forces with equipment. Those advances have caused jitters in Australia, which has long been what Anthony Albanese,

I also noticed that the Australian strategic community's resistance to China's rising power might be overstated due to the influence of rhetoric from the US and the UK, indicating a hopeful outlook for future China-Australia relations.

The financial crash of 2008 is remembered as a once-per-century economic calamity in which imploding house prices bankrupted banking systems worldwide.

Australia is intensifying its involvement in the South China Sea through joint maritime defense activities with the Philippines. This move, aimed at protecting vital trade routes and ensuring regional security,