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‘Australia would help US defend Taiwan’


Australian Minister of Defence Peter Dutton speaks at a news conference at the HMAS Stirling Royal Australian Navy base in Perth, Australia, on Oct. 29.
Photo: EPA-EFE

It would be “inconceivable” for Australia not to join the US should Washington take action to defend Taiwan, Australian Minister of Defence Peter Dutton said yesterday.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday said that the US and its allies would take unspecified “action” if China were to use force to alter the “status quo” over Taiwan.

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DEFENSE REPORT: PLA can block key harbors, ministry says


China’s Liaoning aircraft carrier takes part in a military drill in the western Pacific Ocean on April 18, 2018.
Photo: Reuters

China’s armed forces are capable of blockading Taiwan’s key harbors and airports, the Ministry of National Defense said yesterday, offering its latest assessment of what it described as a “grave” military threat posed by its giant neighbor.

China has been ramping up military activity around Taiwan, including by repeatedly flying warplanes into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone (ADIZ).

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Newsflash

US President Barack Obama used a landmark encounter with the prime minister of military-run Myanmar yesterday to demand freedom for detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi.

“I reaffirmed the policy that I put forward yesterday in Tokyo with regard to Burma,” Obama told reporters, using the former name of the country that has kept Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest for most of the past two decades.