Tag: pacific ocean

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 ...

Welcome to today’s Morning Brief, looking at China’s influence in the Pacific, Ukraine peace efforts, and more news worth following from around the world. Have tips or feedback? Hit reply ...

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 ...