The U.S. aims to use the First Island Chain—comprising Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines—to restrict China's naval access to ...

The Pacific Partnership Act—introduced by US Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Congressman Ed Case (D-Hawai‘i) and Delegate Aumua Amata Radewagen (R-American Samoa)—seeks ...

The White House’s executive order last month purports to authorize mining in international waters – against the authority of ...

Once the site of ferocious World War Two battles, Palau is again at the epicenter of a geostrategic tussle. America is ...

PALAU, Western Pacific >> The brilliant blue waters, thick foliage and bucolic atmosphere on this seemingly idyllic ...

Dancers from the Chinese Catholic Community of New Jersey participate in the call to prayer featuring sacred songs and ...

Of that budget, approximately $3.4 billion was dedicated to the Pacific Islands ... nations to further isolate Taiwan in the international community. There are reportedly under the radar moves by ...

In 2022, China and the Solomon Islands signed a security pact that allows Chinese ships to stop and replenish. Later that year, the Pacific nation accepted a US$66m loan from Chinese telco Huawei ...

Kiribati is a nation of 115,000 people whose closest island is 2,160 km (1,340 miles) south of Honolulu, and the news comes as Beijing renews a push to expand security ties in the Pacific Islands ...

China is now outstripping the US in providing assistance to Pacific nations ... The Australian revealed how the Chinese ambassador to Solomon Islands visited the large Malaita province, which ...

While the precise details of Cofa agreements – which have only ever been extended to the small island nations of Micronesia ... growing influence in the Asia-Pacific. Still, such accords ...