By Jack Viola, Eliza Chapman, Jacqueline Westerman, Harley Comrie and Michael Chi, The Strategist (ASPI): “Vietnam’s defence minister, Ngo Xuan Lich, and the US secretary of defence, James Mattis, announced that a U.S. aircraft carrier will be visiting Vietnam.”
From The Strategist (ASPI): “After condemning the US and South Korea for engaging in war games that might irritate Pyongyang, Russia has flown Tupolev Tu-95MS bombers around the Korean peninsula. During the exercise, the bombers also flew over the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea, prompting Japan and South Korea to deploy scrambler jets...”