The Chinese naval drills in the waters between Australia and New Zealand have prompted airlines to divert flights.

Australia is scrambling to deploy new long-range missiles as the recent arrival of powerful Chinese warships off the ...

The rapid expansion of China’s ocean exploration offers Beijing valuable military intelligence as it expands its naval reach ...

In January, three Chinese naval vessels completed a 339-day anti-piracy deployment in the Gulf of Aden and the waters off ...

Australia's defense forces, joined by close ally New Zealand, have been monitoring ... an Australian air force plane patrolling the South China Sea. Beijing swiftly hit back, accusing the ...

Get the answers with SCMP Knowledge, our new ... China's response "might not be that simple" this time. The South China Sea has increasingly become a source of international tension. Last week ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Australian and New ... with China have improved in recent years, but relations between the two militaries are dangerous. Australia protested what it described as an ...

Australia’s $4 billion taxpayer-funded Pacific bank has signed a deal to upgrade one of Papua New Guinea’s major ... plane had a near miss in the South China Sea near the disputed Paracel ...

Having built the world’s largest navy, China is keen to show it off. But officials from Australia and New Zealand have been startled in recent days by the way it has been flaunting itself in ...

Chinese warships have been circling Australia’s coastline, conducting live-fire drills near New Zealand in an assertive ...

China’s Defence Ministry late on Friday said that the Australian government had “deliberately infringed upon China’s rights and interests in the South China ... the Chinese New Year, beef ...