BEIJING — New Zealand used high-level talks in Beijing to raise concerns about the surprise deployment of Chinese warships off its western coast, Foreign Minister Winston Peters said Thursday.
Australian Navy sailors on HMAS Arunta keeping watch on People’s Liberation Army-Navy (PLA-N) Fuchi-class replenishment vessel Weishanhu and Jiangkai-class frigate Hengyang in the Tasman Sea on ...
Large gaps in Australia’s tracking of Chinese warships have emerged, as Anthony Albanese continued to provide ambiguous answers over the amount of notice the flotilla gave for carrying out live ...
A military figure, not authorised to speak publicly, told the ABC there was a “working assumption” that a taskforce comprising three warships so far from the Chinese mainland could have ...
China’s recent deployment of three warships to waters east of Australia was "designed to be provocative,” a top Australian intelligence official has said, as Beijing looks to normalize this ...
The Defence Department has confirmed it is working with New Zealand's military to jointly track the three warships which are operating about 300km east of Hobart. The news comes as officials in ...
It comes as commercial airline pilots who flew over the Tasman Sea last week told the ABC they monitored radio communications from the Chinese warships to military surveillance aircraft as far ...
An official Chinese media report on Tuesday provided details of recent exercises by Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) warships in the Pacific Ocean that included live-fire drills, which have ...
“It was, in fact, Virgin Australia advising that a foreign warship was broadcasting that they were conducting live firing 300 nautical miles east of our coast,” Sharp said. “That was how we ...
Three Chinese warships are being tracked operating approximately 296 kilometres east of Hobart. The Defence Department has released further images taken of the PLA-N task force which caused ...
(UPDATE) FRANCE's nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and accompanying warships were in the Philippines on Sunday after holding combat drills with Philippine forces in the disputed South China Sea in a ...
No international law was broken by the Chinese warships, since they only need to give a couple hours notice and they remained in international waters, but it was understandably disconcerting for ...