No matter what China’s recent naval drills in the Tasman Sea were meant to provoke, the result has mainly been a lot of often vacuous discussion as to whether or not Australia should feel provoked. There has been a huge diversity in the coverage, from rather sensible-sounding reflections on adopting some kind of diplomatic stoicism,…
While the G7 summit this year was disappointing to some, mainly due to unambitious contributions to the climate fight and vaccine donations, one interesting thing they did manage to get through was “Build Back Better World” (B3W). It is intended to be an alternative to China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) which has been one…
The South China Sea has the three most important seafaring routes of East Asia and carries about one third of global shipping or $5.3 trillion annually. Almost everything going from or to the numerous nations in the region needs to go through the South China Sea. It controls access to the Strait of Malacca, among…