• OPINION

  US faces test on Taiwan, Ukraine

  News, Peter Apps, Published on 19/04/2021

  » With warship moves, equipment sales and diplomatic rhetoric, the United States has rarely been more emphatic that it stands with its allies in Ukraine and Taiwan.

• OPINION

  'Mid-Covid world': horror, division, global shifts

  News, Peter Apps, Published on 01/05/2021

  » As Israel recorded zero daily Covid-19 deaths for the first time in 10 months last week, grave-diggers in next-door Gaza reported rising workloads and hospitals said they were near to collapse.

• OPINION

  Xi's favourite general trips up over Taiwan

  News, Peter Apps, Published on 10/06/2019

  » As the head of Beijing's strategic nuclear forces and its fastest rising general, Chinese Defence Minister Wei Fenghe had a reputation for "doing more and saying less". It was a methodical, determined approach that made him a clear favourite of President Xi Jinping, placing him at the heart of China's remarkable military revolution and its efforts to dominate the region.

• OPINION

  Drones reflect changing Middle East dynamics

  News, Peter Apps, Published on 08/03/2019

  » Ever since Sept 11, drones have been amongst the most visible, and often controversial, signs of American power in the Middle East and beyond. But as regional powers look to chart their own course, a new generation of cheaper unmanned aerial vehicles -- Chinese or locally built, with far fewer restrictions on their use -- are taking to the skies.

• OPINION

  The biggest security threats in 2019

  News, Peter Apps, Published on 02/01/2019

  » With an ongoing trade war between the United States and China, Russian military posturing in Eastern Europe at its greatest since the Cold War and the most unpredictable US administration in living memory, 2019 may offer no shortage of strategic surprises.

• OPINION

  How far is China prepared to go over Taiwan?

  News, Peter Apps, Published on 09/01/2019

  » In the first week of 2019, as China grabbed headlines for landing a spacecraft on the far side of the moon, a New Year's Day editorial in the nation's official military newspaper told its readers that "war preparations" should be a top priority for the year. The following day, President Xi Jinping offered a forceful reminder of what Beijing considers its most likely focus of conflict to be: Taiwan.

• OPINION

  Who has the lead in the AI race?

  News, Peter Apps, Published on 17/01/2019

  » In October, 31 Chinese teenagers reported to the Beijing Institute of Technology, one of the country's premier military research establishments. Selected from more than 5,000 applicants, Chinese authorities hope they will design a new generation of artificial intelligent weapons systems that could range from microscopic robots to computer worms, submarines, drones and tanks.

• OPINION

  Leaders must adapt to Trump's post-midterm world

  News, Peter Apps, Published on 14/11/2018

  » For Donald Trump's first foreign trip since Americans voted in the midterm elections, the bleak weather in Paris appears to have matched the diplomatic mood. The US president seemed subdued during his visit to mark the centenary of the truce that ended World War I, and insulted many Europeans when rain and traffic were cited as the reason for cancelling one of his visits to an American war cemetery.

• OPINION

  Can US-China relations be saved?

  News, Peter Apps, Published on 21/11/2018

  » At the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting on Saturday afternoon, Chinese diplomats arrived unexpectedly at the Foreign Ministry of host Papua New Guinea. Angry at Papua New Guinea's support for American wording in the meeting's final communiqué, they only left after police were called, Australian and other media reported.

• OPINION

  In Azov Sea, Putin plays a very deadly Ukraine game

  News, Peter Apps, Published on 28/11/2018

  » When Vladimir Putin opened a new bridge linking Crimea to the rest of Russia across the Azov Sea in May, Russian officials said it was intended to integrate the disputed peninsula -- seized by Moscow from Ukraine in 2014 -- into Russia's transport infrastructure. By limiting ships transiting the Kerch Strait beneath the giant central span of the bridge, however, it also gave the Kremlin the ability to control maritime access to an area of water roughly the size of Switzerland.

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