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Commentary: US speech at Shangri-La Dialogue hit the right notes – but talk is cheap
Pete Hegseth seemed to be addressing a domestic audience and not those at the security forum in Singapore. Perhaps the ...
Opinion
Yes, spend more on defence – because we can’t rely on US
On the contrary, we will keep getting our defence policy completely wrong if we see defence spending as the price we pay for the US to defend us. We must see it instead as the investment we make in ...
US Republican Michael McCaul: stand up to China by lifting defence spend
The United States Studies Centre’s head of foreign policy and ­defence, Peter Dean, who co-authored the Albanese government’s ...
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Bolt: Unworthy Albanese government making Australia weaker and poorer
Yes, Australians really are getting poorer under Labor. The growth figures for the first three months of this year are a disaster. Our economy grew just 0.2 per cent, or half what the Reserve Bank had ...
Opinion
Hankyoreh English Edition on MSN21hOpinion
[Editorial] US can’t rally its allies against China while punishing them with tariffs
US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth declared that the “prosperity and security of the American people are linked to those of [the Indo-Pacific] people” and that America is “here to stay” in the ...
The Manila Times on MSN12hOpinion
Unlike us, Asean won't heed the US call to arms
A warlord gets a local toughie across town to ally with him and agree to bring in his armed muscle — right next door to ...
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Beijing blasts Australia for spreading “China threat” accusation
Foreign ministry spokesman for Beijing, Lin Jian, accused Australia of “brazenly” spreading a narrative of China as a threat when Australia’s Defence Minister Richard Marles met with US, Japanese and ...