Tag: Geopolitics

RNZ Pacific Samoan Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mataafa has urged her fellow Pacific leaders to stop paying lip service to regionalism and walk the talk...

The National, Port Moresby Papua New Guinea yesterday intialled a defence cooperation agreement with the United States amid day-long protests against the signing by university...

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist, and Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent, in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape says the...

By Sanjeshni Kumar in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape told Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the Pacific Islands nations consider the...

ANALYSIS: By Barbara Dreaver in Port Moresby When I was growing up in Kiribati, then known as the Gilbert Islands, New Zealand divers came to...

By Giff Johnson, Editor, Marshall Islands Journal and RNZ Pacific correspondent Two Pacific nations considered by Washington as crucial in its competition with China for...

By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor The United States is poised to sign a security pact with Papua New Guinea which would give US armed...

Café Pacific An author and human rights advocate for West Papuan self-determination today sent an open letter to Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and the...

By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor; Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific lead digital journalist; and Rachael Nath, RNZ Pacific journalist A group of former leaders of...

COMMENTARY: By John Minto The last fortnight has seen a series of brutal, deliberately provocative Israeli attacks on Palestinian worshippers at Al Aqsa Mosque in...

RNZ Pacific The Pacific Islands Forum chairman has been assured by the United States that the AUKUS agreement will honour the Treaty of Rarotonga after...

RNZ News Jacinda Ardern will largely be remembered in Aotearoa New Zealand as the prime minister whose pandemic-era policies saved thousands of Kiwi lives, according...

RNZ Pacific Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown has joined a growing list of Pacific leaders to object to the US$250 billion nuclear submarine deal...

By Repeka Nasiko in Suva Nuclear-armed submarines are not welcome in Fiji waters. Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka said this as he stressed he did not support...

ANALYSIS: By Nicholas Khoo, University of Otago Former Australian prime minister Paul Keating’s recent strident criticism of the A$368 billion nuclear-powered submarine deal announced under...

ANALYSIS: By Greg Fry and Terence Wesley-Smith In his recently published article “Sea of many flags”, the head of the ANU National Security College Rory...

RNZ Pacific Washington has announced plans to reopen the United States Embassy in Solomon Islands. Inside the Games reports that the move is a bid to...

By Mar-Vic Cagurangan, editor-in-chief of the Pacific Island Times The Federated States of Micronesia will receive more US economic assistance under the Compact of...

ANALYSIS: By Yamin Kogoya "We are part of them and they are part of us," declared politician Augustine Rapa, founder and president of the PNG...

By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama says Bougainville’s future as an independent sovereign nation is inevitable and nothing can change the...

RNZ Pacific Solomon Islands Foreign Minister Jeremiah Manele says the country joined an agreement with the United States only after changes to wording relating to...

SPECIAL REPORT: By Laurens Ikinia Governor Lukas Enembe of Indonesia's Melanesian province of Papua has been banned from travelling abroad by the state Directorate General...