What do you do if the tendril of a poisonous vine threatens to overrun your backyard? You chop it off.
We need to show all Pacific nations - not just Solomon Islands - we are with them,and not let strategic advisers overwhelm the important issues.
The Subtle Asian Traits group now has two million members,and is being developed into a TV series in the US.
The best thing the Quad can do now is kick the ball through the goalposts it has already erected rather than making flashy new commitments at the expense of real progress.
Japan and Australia will join in more sophisticated military exercises under a new agreement that gives the countries access to each other’s bases.
As the ash clouds clear after the devastating volcanic eruption,engineers are scrambling to repair the critical single undersea cable linking Tonga with the world.
How to blunt China’s bid to dominate the vital Indo-Pacific region is now a first-order question in global diplomacy.
China’s slowing economy and declining birthrates are ominous signs for a world that has relied on it to drive much of its economic growth in the past decade.
The powerful Pacific Islands bloc is demanding the developed world delivers on the $100 billion promised in climate finance.
One by one,countries like Singapore and Australia have decided that COVID zero is unsustainable,but China’s resolve to stamp out every infection appears to have only grown stronger.
For years climate change was seen as a “threat multiplier”. Now it is seen as a “threat generator” and there are fears Australia is not paying attention.