Tag: AUKUS
PANG condemns Australia policy for ‘abandoning’ Pacific nuclear-free pact
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Australia needs to be put on notice by Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) leaders over abandoning its commitments under the South Pacific’s...
Samoa Observer: The fallacy of a nuclear submarine deal for peace
EDITORIAL: By the Samoa Observer editorial board
It perhaps wasn’t a remarkable coincidence that last month Samoa’s former Ambassador to the United Nations called on...
AUKUS pact strikes at heart of Pacific nuclear-free regionalism
By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific reporter
Australia's new security pact with the US and the UK has touched a nerve at the core of Pacific...
ANZUS without NZ? Why the new security pact between Australia, the...
ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato
We live, to borrow a phrase, in interesting times. The pandemic aside, relations between the superpowers are tense....
![Israeli claims about an Iran ‘threat’ were always a lie. Now we have proof "That anyone in the White House took this plan seriously, let alone acted on it, is a genuinely staggering notion. But the proposition that [former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad] could retake the reins of power in Iran is possibly the least preposterous part of the scheme](https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Mahmoud-Ahmadinejad-WikiP-680wide-218x150.png)








![Israeli claims about an Iran ‘threat’ were always a lie. Now we have proof "That anyone in the White House took this plan seriously, let alone acted on it, is a genuinely staggering notion. But the proposition that [former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad] could retake the reins of power in Iran is possibly the least preposterous part of the scheme](https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Mahmoud-Ahmadinejad-WikiP-680wide-100x70.png)







