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The world may be entering an era of "potential international instability" with the rise of China and the advent of disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence and robotics that could prove decisive to warfare, the top U.S. general warned on Wednesday.

Canberra’s had enough of trade embargoes and Chinese grievances—and is ready to draw a line.

Slow rise in neutrons stirs concerns about possible “criticality” accident

The former head of Australia’s special forces told his troops that we were already engaged in a “grey zone” war with China, and worse could well be around the corner.

The Islamic Republic of Iran made multiple attempts in 2020 to obtain technology for its weapons of mass destruction program and has not stopped its drive to develop atomic weapons, intelligence agencies from the Netherlands, Sweden and Germany recently reported.

It is "absolutely credible" to say that President Xi Jinping's primary purpose for his military is to have the capability to take Taiwan by force and will li...

"This problem is much closer to us than most think," the new head of US Indo-Pacific Command said in March.

There is no need to presume China will take Taiwan by military force when its supreme leader Xi Jinping has already said he has “plans to unify Taiwan with t...

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When US President Joe Biden urged Americans to "win the 21st century" in his joint address to Congress, he painted a picture of a new great power competition with China and repeatedly name checked its leader, Xi Jinping.

In a recent column published by RIA Novosti, the deputy chairperson of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, writes that Russia’s relations with the United States have reverted back to a full “Cold War” (RIA Novosti, April 23). Medvedev served as Russia’s caretaker president from 2008 to 2012, holding the post while the country’s true ruler, Vladimir Putin, took the …

One of Australia’s most senior security officials has said liberal democracies must brace for war while searching for peace amid elevated global tensions.

From plagues and volcanic eruptions to the current Covid pandemic, mankind has always been faced with catastrophes. This panoramic history about how we coped in the past and will continue to do so, is packed with brilliant insights and ideas, says Martin Bentham

Cognoscenti Group Founder and CEO Dr Alan Dupont says the risk of war has considerably risen from 0.5 per cent to about 25 per cent on his own estimates, esp...

The persistent lack of response from the EU, NATO, or individual countries only convinces Russia it is free to carry out attacks across Europe with impunity.

Sky News host Andrew Bolt says "we have evidence that woke politics is making the west desperately weak" after New Zealand's Foreign Affairs Minister refused...

Residents in European nations expressed low confidence in the U.S. as a good example of a functioning democracy in the 2021 Best Countries survey.

Officials said that China’s push for global power posed a threat to the United States, and they dwelled on climate change, domestic extremism and more.

The national security threats that top intelligence officials laid out for lawmakers on Wednesday were dominated by China’s efforts to expand its global influence and "cascading crises" exacerbated by the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.

Although civilian control over the military is deeply embedded in the U.S. Constitution, it's currently under threat.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu desperately sees how the tough stance of the Trump administration against the nuclear deal with Iran has now morphed and changed into the Americans feeling their way back to the deal.

Experts predict that a tricky bomber maneuver—a wide encirclement of Taiwan—could be part of China’s strategy for softening up the island country’s defenses. That’s not just theory. The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force recently practiced the move.

Why is the world constantly on the brink of a new financial crisis? This film explores the reasons for our risky financial system, and looks at how the finan...

The U.S. Navy still has no idea who sent a swarm of drones to buzz warships off the coast of California in July 2019, or really even what kind of drones they were or what they were doing.

Decline is a relative term, but clearly by a preponderance of measures America is declining while China is ascending.

Beijing gains influence and helps Tehran evade U.S. sanctions.

The arrival of 4,000 Russian troops on the country’s border with Ukraine could trigger a European war, according to a military expert on the region. Pavel Felgenhauer’s warnings came as…

Special report: Britain's defence review identified two key adversaries - China and Russia. But both present very different challenges

Pyongyang steals $315m in virtual assets to fund weapons development