“Tongans know their needs better than foreign visitors. Aid needs to be reframed as solidarity, not as benevolence.”
Huge underwater volcanic explosions at Hunga-Tonga and Hunga-Ha'apai have disrupted communications, transportation and left the island nation without a clean water supply.
The Council on Geostrategy says the United Kingdom, weakened after the Cold War, needs to tackle global issues at a critical time when its diplomacy is...
Does the rule of law exist in Pacific Island countries? The issue is no longer at the level of asking the question, "What should we do?”
There is concern that if diplomatic relations with China are established, Chinese infiltration of Palau, which has a population of less than 20,000, will proceed further....
On June 23, the pro-China president of the Republic of Kiribati, Taneti Maamau, was re-elected. Maamau had suddenly switched diplomatic relations from Taiwan to China in September 2019 — news...
“We need Japan. We need the Japanese Navy to protect the vast Pacific Ocean. Japan is the only country which can protect the Pacific...
In Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s address to the73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly on September 25, he highlighted the significance of the location...
China’s aircraft carrier Liaoning (C) takes part in a military drill of Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy in the western Pacific Ocean, April 18, 2018....
In July 1937, Amelia Earhart, American aviator lionized for her bravery, and navigator Frederick Noonan left New Guinea, then a territory of Australia, for the tiny United States-owned...
