They watched climate change ravage their home countries as rich, polluting nations did nothing. Then they had an idea. Madeleine Lavemai, left, and Sulia Makasini were students from Tonga attending ...

SYDNEY, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Fiji's Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka will attend a presidential prayer breakfast in Washington on Thursday, the first opportunity for a Pacific Islands leader to press the ...

The United States and its Indo-Pacific allies and partners were conducting the largest army exercise in the region as the American ground forces prepared for fighting island warfare. The exercise, ...

The United States has traditionally provided significant assistance to Pacific island countries. Many of these countries and regions still use the U.S. dollar as their currency and, absent their own ...

In September and October of 1944, 28,000 brave American marines and Army infantry ventured into what became known as the “forgotten corner of hell.” Initially, U.S. Marine Corps major general William ...

Director, Center for Australian, New Zealand and Pacific Studies, Georgetown University Since 2018, the United States has worked, albeit often haltingly, to regain its footing with Pacific Island ...

IN 1942 Guadalcanal saw hand-to-hand combat between American marines and Japanese soldiers. On September 10th the island hosted another geopolitical tussle—when leaders of Pacific-island countries as ...

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 ...

As a Pacific state with Pacific borders and an escalating rivalry with China, the U.S. must continue to partner with the Pacific Islands in new, innovative ways. The U.S. must adopt a clear-eyed ...

The Pacific islands must develop grassroots artificial intelligence (AI) strategies to avoid becoming passive recipients of foreign frameworks and to ensure AI supports local resilience, economic ...