A new website has been recently launched that tracks US military, intelligence and weapons corporations access to Australian military facilities. This project states its purpose as: US access to Australian defence and intelligence facilities has consequences for peace, security, sovereignty and democratic control. Our purpose is to make that access visible, verifiable and open to democratic scrutiny. We assemble and …

By Richard Stone Plans by the US to establish a large data centre in South Korea (ROK) have provided evidence of a diplomatic operation with spurious agendas. The timing of the operation being just one consideration. The ROK has an important geo-strategic position with US regional defence and security provision, a great deal of which remains highly sensitive. An attempt …

by Richard Stone Recent coverage about the diplomatic significance of President Biden not attending the ASEAN summit has tended to concentrate upon information of questionable relevance while ignoring the significance of related matters. The growing significance of ASEAN as a regional trade body in the most dynamic sector of the global economy and the strategic nature of some member countries, …