Pacific island nations are no exception. The politics and economies of these island nations have been dealt a serious blow, from the effective dismantling of the United States Agency for International ...

The relationship between Japan and the Pacific Island countries (PICs) has been built through two approaches: bilateral and regional. A core element of the latter approach, the Pacific Island Leaders ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NUKU’ALOFA, Tonga (AP) — As leaders of ...

The island nation of Palau, home to just under 18, 000 people living on 500 small islands, has become an out sized player on ...

The Pacific Islands are of intensifying geostrategic interest. Sitting between Asia and the Americas, the region is one of the world’s most dependent on aid. It acts as the custodian of large swaths ...

As the strategic rivalry between China and the United States intensifies across the Indo-Pacific, the Taiwan Strait is often seen as the key flash point. Yet whether the regional balance holds or tips ...

TOKYO — On the first day of the Pacific Islands Leaders Meeting, which opened in Tokyo on Tuesday, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida held separate meetings with the leaders of four Pacific island countries ...

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele, under mounting pressure from Beijing, recently reaffirmed Taiwan’s exclusion from the upcoming Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting. The decision marks ...

"The COFA agreement was never designed as foreign aid in the traditional sense," King-Hinds said. "It was a strategic bargain ...

The South Pacific Ocean is the world's largest marine habitat, containing critical breeding grounds and migratory routes for 11 of the world's great whale species. The Cook Islands, Fiji, French ...

Amanda H.A. Watson receives research funding from the Australian government's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade through the Pacific Research Program. Atishnal Elvin Chand does not work for, ...

NUKU’ALOFA, Tonga (AP) — As leaders of Pacific nations were welcomed to their annual meeting in Nuku’alofa, Tonga, on Monday, they were greeted first by torrential rain and then by an earthquake. The ...