Ever since China signed a security pact with the Solomon Islands in April, there has been serious concern in the West that Beijing will establish a military foothold in the ...
U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration has unveiled plans to scale up its diplomatic footprint and foreign aid investments in the Pacific Ocean in a bid to counter China’s growing clout ...
The U.S. Navy is searching for two containers of missiles that fell off of a helicopter into the Pacific Ocean, officials reported. An MH-60S Knighthawk helicopter assigned to Helicopter Sea ...
In January, White House Asia tsar Kurt Campbell gave a public talk declaring that the Pacific Islands were the part of the Indo-Pacific most likely to witness a “strategic surprise” ...
Concerns over China’s Pacific expansion reached a fever pitch with the signing of an agreement between the Solomon Islands and Beijing in April. A leaked draft of the agreement specified ...
Last week, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi attempted a “victory lap” in the South Pacific. Following China’s extensive security pact with the Solomon Islands in April, he met with his ...
TOKYO — Japanese adventurer Kenichi Horie at 83 just became the oldest person in the world to complete a solo, nonstop voyage across the Pacific Ocean — and he says ...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Tropical storm warnings were issued early Friday for much of the Florida peninsula, Cuba and the Bahamas as a system that battered Mexico moves through the ...
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No one has to be more dismayed by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s incompetence on the global stage than Chinese President Xi Jinping, his once-devoted partner. Publicly, Xi is sticking by ...