By dispatching its foreign minister to the event, Tokyo seems intent on asserting its influence - and avoiding being upstaged ...

With Honiara as host of this year’s Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting, China could see its influence at the regional body ...

Palau is one of just 12 countries that has official diplomatic ties with Taiwan. The country's president, Surangel Whipps Jr.

While there is strong bipartisan support for a robust U.S. presence in the Pacific, the increasingly competitive global ...

The Biden administration is seeking to shore up ties with countries in the Indo-Pacific in its waning days in office by ...

UXOs contaminate the Pacific but there's little clean-up funding despite hundreds of millions of dollars being spent on new defense infrastructure.

Mongabay reported that the crew of the research vessel E/V Nautilus, operated by the Ocean Exploration Trust, made an unexpected sighting deep in the German Channel in Palau: a nautilus. "It's finally ...

China is the leading emitter, in total volume, of the greenhouse gases driving global heating. It aims to ensure carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions peak by 2030 and be brought to net zero by 2060.

By Daisuke Wakabayashi and Claire Fu China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, veered momentarily from his usual talking points in a New Year’s address to acknowledge the challenges of the country’s ...

In the televised address, Xi acknowledged that China’s economy was facing “challenges from uncertainties in the external environment” — but he struck a defiant note, proclaiming that the ...

China’s gross domestic product is expected to expand around 5% for the full year of 2024, President Xi Jinping said, signaling the world’s second-largest economy is on track to meet its ...

"We continue to call on China to share data and access so we can understand the origins of COVID-19. This is a moral and scientific imperative," the WHO said in a statement.