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Space/China – ‘We were ready to sacrifice’: Chinese astronaut reflects on China’s first spacewalk 13 yrs ago (Global Times)

Taikonauts Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo completed a spacewalk on Sunday wearing the latest Chinese-designed spacesuits. With this mission China is reaching another milestone...

China – Xi confers honorary counterterrorism title on Xinjiang armed police (Global Times)

Xi Jinping, chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), signed an order to confer an honorary counterterrorism title on a special operations squadron of...

China – China’s 1st 3D-printed retractile bridge unveiled in Shanghai; it can hold 20 ppl at a time (Global Times)

China's first 3D-printed retractile bridge has been unveiled in Shanghai, seen as a move for further attempts in 3D printing technology on retractile architecture. China’s...

China – The Chinese Communist Party and the people (John Fitzgerald, The Strategist)

Enough has been said and left unsaid about the history of the Chinese Communist Party on the centenary of its founding to last us...

Australia – Tanks and the ADF capability calculus (Andrew Davies, The Strategist)

Once again there’s a lively debate on the merits of having tanks (and armoured vehicles generally) in the inventory of the Australian Army. And...

Turkey/USA/Europe – Will US and EU pressure soften Erdogan’s brand of strongman rule? (Nikolaos Skondrianos, The Strategist)

US President Joe Biden’s declaration on the Armenian genocide raised the ire of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who labelled the decision as a ‘wrong step’ and called...

Indonesia – Indonesian peacekeeping and civil–military relations: a double-edged sword (Natalie Sambhi, The Strategist)

During Indonesia’s two-year stint on the United Nation’s Security Council (2019–2020), the country made significant gains not just in promoting peacekeeping operations but in augmenting...

Australia/USA – Australia right to back Biden on democracy (Ben Scott, The Interpreter)

Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s recent speech, “A world order that favours freedom”, has some foreign policy commentators worried that Australia is signing up to...

Pacific – Aiding the Pacific during Covid: An update (Alexandre Dayant, Roland Rajah, The Interpreter)

More than a year into the Covid-19 pandemic, how much outside financial support is the Pacific receiving and how far does this go in...

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