The Chinese naval task group continued in a westerly direction while transiting off Australia's southern coast.

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Many Australians seem to have missed a salient fact – our own navy conducts navigation operations and live firing exercises ...

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In his first comments since this month's arrival of a People's Liberation Army-Navy (PLA-N) taskforce, Ambassador Xiao Qian ...

The Albanese government has continued to grapple with concerns about the presence of Chinese warships off the Australian ...

Amid the furore, no-one has suggested that the Chinese “live fire” exercises were a military threat, were not held in ...

The visit comes as the U.S. is assisting Australia in acquiring conventionally armed, nuclear-powered attack submarines.

The deployment of a Chinese naval task group in our region is clearly aimed at sending a message and testing Australia’s ...

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Many Australians seem to have missed a salient fact – our own navy conducts navigation operations and live firing exercises ...