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Philippines sends largest-ever RIMPAC contingent
Beijing is weaponizing civilian research vessels and university labs to map the seabed for submarines and 'kill webs,' but the U.S. and its allies retain the decisive undersea advantage.
Beijing has accompanied a doctored viral map with unprecedented law enforcement patrols east of Taiwan. Its state media now describe those waters as China's 'near seas.'
Australia’s government has been reluctant to discuss a mainland strike scenario, even as a think-tank says the public underestimates the risk.