UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s pursuit of closer ties with China has raised private questions from Donald Trump’s incoming administration, European diplomats and even some senior British officials.

Australia will provide over $100 million to help the Solomon Islands, which also has security ties with China, expand its police force so it can reduce its reliance on external partners, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Friday.

Australia will provide over $100 million to the Solomon Islands to expand its police force so the Pacific Islands nation, which also has security ties with China, can reduce its reliance on external partners,

Lowy Institute International Security Program Director Sam Roggeveen says it would be “disastrous” for Australia if China establishes a military presence in the Pacific.

Strategic Analysis Australia founding director Michael Shoebridge believes China’s police presence in the Solomon Islands will stay.

Papua New Guinea will gain its own team in Australia’s rugby league in a soft diplomacy deal linked to limiting Chinese influence in the South Pacific.

Australia's live rock lobster exports to China can resume following the removal of trade restrictions. This development highlights the resolution of trade disputes that began in 2020 over Australia's call for a COVID-19 origins inquiry.

For a government elected almost three years ago, the decline in Labor’s fortunes has been steep, and proportional to cost-of-living pressures that have driven out incumbents around the globe.

Anthony Albanese has distanced himself from a controversial ALP video linking nuclear power to cancer, heart attacks and strokes insisting he’s focused on “the economics of this issue” and the option doesn’t add up.

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