Defence officials have revealed they did not know Chinese warships were conducting live-fire drills in the Tasman Sea until a Virgin commercial pilot sounded the alarm. But that’s at odds with ...

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 Feb.

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 ...

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The Chinese warships undertaking live firing exercises in the Tasman Sea have moved closer to the Australian coast, according to Australia and New Zealand military monitors. By yesterday the ships ...

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 ...

Ryan Chan is a Newsweek reporter based in Hong Kong, where he previously had over a decade of experience at a local newspaper, covering China and current events around the world. His focus is on ...

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 ...

China's navy frigate Hengyang off coast of NSW last week. Image / Australian Defence Force Three Chinese warships are currently off the coast of Tasmania, forcing Air New Zealand flights between ...

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 ...

The appearance of three Chinese warships so close to our borders has ... an Auckland-based journalist with a background in world news and crime/justice reporting who joined NZME in 2016.

On Thursday, the Australian government said that three Chinese warships were sailing unusually close to its shores on an undeclared mission. Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles noted the ...