Colin Clark @ColinDefense

Substack writer; founding editor of Breaking Defense. Proud dad, husband, fisherman, grill king, Sydneysider & consumer of fine Antipodean wines. breakingdefense.com Sydney Australia Joined March 2011

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Colin Clark @ColinDefense

20 hours ago

@WhiteHouse Truth is, the algae is back, big and green!! Even your own paper says so! nypost.com/2026/06/15/us-…

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Colin Clark @ColinDefense

20 hours ago

Excellent work, Jay. Shine the light of truth bright and far!

Jay Tarriela @jaytaryela

a day ago

The decision to expose the illegal presence of the People’s Republic of China’s floating, movable platform is not only about being transparent with the Filipino people and countering China’s lies. It is also meant to inform the international community, like-minded states, and

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Colin Clark @ColinDefense

20 hours ago

@PeterCronau And how do you know that a B-52 carrying nuclear weapons has or ever will touch down in Australia?

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Stephen Dziedzic @stephendziedzic

a day ago

China's Foreign Ministry fields a question on the Lowy Institute's analysis on the threat posed to Australia by Beijing's huge military buildup - spox says the Institute has made a "grave" error, and adopted "trite" analysis that great powers inevitably seek hegemony

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Colin Clark @ColinDefense

5 days ago

My baby is so grown up!!! Breaking Defense adds Kyle Rempfer as additional editor, amid continued growth - Breaking Defense breakingdefense.com/2026/06/breaki…

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Colin Clark @ColinDefense

5 days ago

Bravo. Now keep the pressure up. -British defense secretary, Armed Forces minister resign over defense funding - Breaking Defense breakingdefense.com/2026/06/britis…

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SeaLight @SeaLightFound

a week ago

🚨THE BASHI BREAKOUT: 🇨🇳#China has, for the first time, pushed a paramilitary sovereignty assertion past its own "10-dash line" & beyond the First Island Chain to challenge a maritime negotiation it isn't party to. On May 28, 🇯🇵#Japan & the 🇵🇭#Philippines announced they would delimit their overlapping exclusive economic zones as prescribed by #UNCLOS. Beijing's answer was to send a flotilla through the Bashi Channel & into the open Pacific east of 🇹🇼#Taiwan, into waters that even its own most expansive maps don't (yet) claim. The key is in which ships Beijing sent: China uses its navy to assert capability--what it can do by force. It uses its coast guard & other government ships as a paramilitary force to assert sovereignty--what it claims. Not one ship in this flotilla was a warship, because this was a sovereignty claim. That's what's really new here. For over a decade China used these same gray-zone tactics to assert sovereignty inside its South China Sea "nine-dash line". This week's action pushed somewhere new--going past even the 10th "dash" Beijing added to its 2023 map. Beyond the First Island Chain. This assertion was aimed not at Taiwan alone, but at two 🇺🇸US treaty allies. @China_MFA branded the Japan-Philippine talks "completely illegal and void", while a June 1 @globaltimesnews editorial called the idea "an extraordinary and almost unprecedented absurdity… akin to two neighbors sitting in your living room and discussing how to divide your backyard." Note how China's "backyard" continues to expand. So, in fact, does its "living room". What SeaLight's tracking shows: 🔹 From 1-5 June, CCG cutters Daishan (2502) & Baita (2304) ran the first clockwise patrol over 200nm east of Taiwan's easternmost island--well past the 10th "dash" on Beijing's 2023 map. 🔹 Late on June 7th, a second wave of 3 provincial Maritime Safety Administration cutters & a rescue tug pushed into the Bashi Channel. The formation entered Taiwan's restricted waters ~30nm off the southern tip, drew a 7-ship Taiwan Coast Guard standoff, then also pushed east. Beijing's state media left no doubt about what it all meant, first with an official @XHNews/@globaltimesnews announcement, then a June 7 Global Times viewpoint column naming the operation "a sovereignty declaration with both legal significance and political signaling." Taiwan's NSC chief @josephwutw named it "expansionism in disguise," Defense Minister Koo said it was "cognitive warfare." Both are quite correct. But the deeper target is Tokyo, Manila & Washington DC, since if Beijing can run a paramilitary sovereignty assertion directly against two US allies' lawful EEZ talks in waters far beyond even its own claim lines, the real message is that China's maritime claims are not just expansive and ambiguous, they are unbounded. 📊 Tracking by @StarboardIntel

Firstpost @firstpost

a week ago

Taiwan has condemned Chinese Coast Guard patrols east of the island as a “provocative act” and accused Beijing of escalating pressure through maritime operations and “cognitive warfare.” The patrols came after China objected to planned maritime boundary talks between Japan and

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Joseph Wu @josephwutw

a week ago

#China’s Hai Xun & CG vessels are harassing commercial ships in #Taiwan’s EEZ to fabricate a facade of #PRC jurisdiction. This expansionism is a major escalation of regional tension. We call on all commercial vessels in the area to ignore #CCG radio calls.

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Colin Clark @ColinDefense

a week ago

Disgusting but, sadly, probably legal as the president's power to pardon is unlimited.

Fara Kaufman @justfara

a week ago

BREAKING📷 A woman donated $1 million to Trump's super PAC. Three weeks later, her son a convicted tax criminal was pardoned. His pardon application literally mentioned her donation. Her name is Elizabeth Fago. Her son, Paul Walczak, had pleaded guilty to federal tax crimes. The

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Rebeccah Heinrichs @RLHeinrichs

a week ago

Filming Chinese aggression like this is vital. U.S. strategic comms would be wise to amplify it.

Dr. Minh Tran @MinhDr18

a week ago

China's coast guard harasses Filipinos. Philippines documents it. China gets upset when the footage reaches the rest of the world and accuses Manila of "playing the victim." If you don't want the reputation of a bully, stop behaving like one. x.com/globaltimesnew…

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Andrew Greene @AndrewBGreene

a week ago

Exclusive: Chinese officials are accused of harassing and photographing pro-democracy activists who gathered in Perth last week for a night time vigil to commemorate the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre thenightly.com.au/australia/chin…

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Colin Clark @ColinDefense

a week ago

@Acyn Best thing that could happen to America.

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Colin Clark @ColinDefense

a week ago

Excellent historic & policy analysis of @PeteHegseth fiddling with General Officer promotions & whitewashing them open.substack.com/pub/notesforth…

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Colin Clark @ColinDefense

a week ago

Israel-- still worthy of being called a liberal democracy?? washingtonpost.com/business/2026/…

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Colin Clark @ColinDefense

a week ago

The president of Armenia should send Putin a symbolic dull, gold-plated ice pick. --Armenia’s election is a setback for Vladimir Putin (from @TheEconomist) economist.com/europe/2026/06…

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Colin Clark @ColinDefense

a week ago

The patent illogic and illegality of Vance's argument is astonishing

Captain Obvious™️ @TheFungi669

a week ago

JD Vance: “If you’re born in this country and your parents were not U.S. citizens then you should be deported.” Grok: “There is no evidence that Usha Vance’s parents were U.S. citizens when she was born in San Diego in 1986.”

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國防部 Ministry of National Defense, ROC(Taiwan) 🇹🇼 @MoNDefense

2 weeks ago

Overall 21 sorties of #PLA aircraft in various types (including J-10, J-16, KJ-500, etc.) detected from 0822 hr today. 14 out of 21 sorties crossed the median line of the #Taiwan Strait and entered the central and southwestern part ADIZ in conducting air-sea joint training along with other PLAN vessels. #ROCArmedForces have monitored the situation and responded accordingly.

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Colin Clark @ColinDefense

2 weeks ago

All such stories need to be taken with a handful of salt but this guy is good.

Alex Luck @AlexLuck9

2 weeks ago

We appear to have a new type of Chinese nuclear powered submarine on out hands. The most remarkable aspect about it is its construction at Jiangnan in Shanghai, in a dedicated new facility. A few additional remarks in a quick thread. navalnews.com/naval-news/202…

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Visegrád 24 @visegrad24

2 weeks ago

BREAKING: Ukrainian long-range drones have hit several Russian warships at a drydock at the naval base in Kronstadt (St. Petersburg). One of the vessels hit is the corvette Boikiy. After destroying the Russian Black Sea Fleet, Ukraine is now destroying the Baltic Sea Fleet.