Many locals would recognize the Fair Jeanne, which is docked in Brockville’s harbour at the foot of the Tall Ships Landing ...

More than a century later, the Chinese navy has been executing its own form of gunboat diplomacy by circumnavigating Australia ... A flight of steps, the Fleet Steps, was specially built in the Royal ...

Irregular Royal Navy deployments to the Far East could not ... and it won’t stop. Quiet diplomacy won’t deter Beijing from more dangerous behaviour but will embolden it to repeat its actions.

The Pentagon wants a U.S. Navy destroyer to help shake things ... For the Standard, the deployment brought to mind "gunboat diplomacy," a pillar of 19th and early 20th-century foreign policy ...

When three Chinese warships sailed through the Tasman Sea last month, then around Australia, the greater surprise was not their arrival but the hysteria in their wake. Peter Dutton, Australia’s ...

Shadow defence minister Andrew Hastie raised alarms about the “gunboat diplomacy” from China as the People’s Liberation Army-Navy provokes ... fighter jets for the Royal Australian Air ...

The Chinese military is engaging in “gunboat diplomacy” by holding unannounced live ... Personnel onboard the Royal Australian Navy ship HMAS Arunta look at the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy ...

Chairman Xi Jinping’s gunboat diplomacy has reached ... shouldn’t be shocked to see a Chinese navy task group off our east coast,” argues former Royal Australian Navy warfare officer and ...

Mr Morrison said his response would have been tougher, sending the Australian navy to closely monitor ... envelope with their old playbook of gunboat diplomacy. “China wants to completely ...

Over the past few days, the Australian media has been dominated by the activities of the Chinese navy’s Task Group ... with accusations of “gunboat diplomacy” being bandied around.