Last year China issued a strong protest and an ominous warning after news broke of April's purported secret naval drills.

Satellite images showed heavy artillery guns, vehicles and shipping containers on the docks waiting to be loaded onto the ship. The view of Severomorsk from Cattistock (Picture: Royal Navy ...

The container ship that crashed into an anchored tanker in the North Sea carrying jet fuel for the US Navy failed steering ... the Stena Immaculate’s port side.” Crowley, the company which ...

Citing what he called their shared “Oriental wisdom,” he quoted a proverb, seemingly alluding to the United States as an unreliable ... Image Cadets on an Australian Navy ship.

Last year, Beijing also passed the milestone of achieving more than 50% of the US Navy’s firepower in vertical launch system missile cells on its surface ships. This will allow Beijing to take ...

Australians are being reassured that China's navy does ... the Chinese side should feel sorry about that or even apologise for that," Xiao said. He said: "There's no reason for us to pose threat ...

Its navy has held live-fire exercises near Australia and Vietnam. On Friday, however, China pointed the finger at the United States ... taking Russia’s side in its war on Ukraine.

“I think that the circumnavigation might test us ... “In my view, the notice is appropriate,” Mr Xiao told the ABC. “I don’t see there’s any reason why the Chinese side should ...

Both Australia and New Zealand have raised concerns with Beijing on the rare live-fire drills in the Tasman Sea last week, saying they did not receive adequate notice from China’s navy.