The prime minister of Australia, a longtime US security partner in Asia, sought to focus his trip to China this week on business and trade opportunities, dodging thornier issues around US-China competition such as Taiwan or Beijing’s military expansion.

Australia’s potential to export green metals – made here using abundant, cheap renewable energy – could deliver immeasurable economic benefits and accelerate the global race to net zero. It’s now a step closer.

Exercise Talisman Sabre 2025 involved more than 35,000 military personnel from 19 Indo-Pacific and European nations.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he complained to China's President Xi Jinping during a meeting on Tuesday about a Chinese naval live-fire exercise off the

Three weeks of military drills are taking place in and around Australia as the U.S. and its allies seek to send a message to China that they are ready to respond together.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has kicked off a visit to China meant to shore up relations between the two countries

Australia and China should cooperate more closely over green steel, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said in Shanghai on Monday, even as he called on the world's largest steelmaker to address excess capacity for the metal.

The drill - the largest-ever war fighting exercise to take place in Australia - officially started on Sunday. The biennial drill, known as Exercise Talisman Sabre, started in 2005 as a joint exercise between the US and Australia but has grown to incorporate many more countries.