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Beijing deployed a naval task group to the waters around Australia for three related reasons. First, to demonstrate the reach and potency of Chinese sea power and to put Australia on notice that it is

Australia learned about Chinese live-fire naval drills off the country’s coast that forced dozens of flights to be diverted via an alert from a commercial pilot, authorities said on Monday.

China's recent live-fire naval drills in the Tasman Sea off southeastern Australia highlighted continued tensions between the major Indo-Pacific powers, particularly in the Sea and the Taiwan Strait.

Both Australia and New Zealand have raised concerns with Beijing on the rare live-fire drills in the Tasman Sea last week, saying they did not receive adequate notice from China’s navy

The Australian government’s underreaction to China’s ongoing naval circumnavigation of Australia is a bigger problem than any perceived overreaction in public commentary. Some politicisation of the issue before a general election is natural in a

Beijing on Sunday said Canberra had “deliberately hyped” recent Chinese naval exercises near the Australian coast and confirmed its forces had used live fire in an incident th

DeepSeek’s AI model is cheaper to run and more accessible than American rival ChatGPT, but basic testing has uncovered features that could shape how thousands of start-ups jumping on it could portray China.

His comments came as a Chinese naval task force continued to skirt Australia’s territorial waters. Read more at straitstimes.com.

“Australia, while well aware of this, made unreasonable accusations against China and deliberately hyped it up,” said Wu, adding that Beijing was “astonished and strongly dissatisfied

China’s ambassador to Australia Xiao Qian has asserted Beijing has done nothing wrong over its live fire drills in the Tasman Sea, urging “there should be no over-reading into this”, and declaring China had nothing to apologise for.