Commentary The Defence White Paper published by the Australian government in 2016 was the most far-reaching, comprehensive of its type. Projecting forward for 20 years, the paper, and its accompanying Defence Industry White Paper, proposed a major program of defence acquisitions to ensure the nation’s security. It also pegged the Defence expenditure base to at…
No Time for Thumb-Twiddling in the Face of Beijing’s Military Build Up
Will the Beijing-Havana Axis Spawn Another Cuban Crisis?
News Analysis A growing China-Cuba axis threatens to transform the geopolitics of the Caribbean basin and heralds the return of great power rivalry to a region that has historically been a critical component of America’s continental defense. How serious a challenge is Beijing’s Caribbean gambit to U.S. national security? The significance of the China-Cuba axis…
Chinese Smartphone Maker Xiaomi Leaps to Second Place Globally as Biden Administration Removes It From Blacklist
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi, which was taken off the blacklist by the Biden administration in May, became the world’s second-largest smartphone maker in the second quarter of 2021, overtaking Huawei domestically and Apple globally, by expanding its overseas business through the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). According to a July 15 report by market research…
How to Resolve Threat of the CCP’s One Belt One Road Initiative
Analysis Seven years have gone by since China started its One Belt One Road Initiative (BRI) in 2014. In 2013 Chinese leader Xi Jinping first introduced this transnational economic belt initiative, then known as the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road. The BRI starts in mainland China, moves along the…
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