Tag: Pacific geopolitics
Indonesia joins BRICS: What now for West Papuan goal of independence?
ANALYSIS: By Ali Mirin
Indonesia officially joined the BRICS -- Brazil, Russia, China and South Africa -- consortium last week marking a significant milestone in...
Pacific 2025: Vanuatu quake, Tongan and Kanaky shakeups, Trump questions set...
Navigating the shared challenges of climate change, geostrategic tensions, political upheaval, disaster recovery and decolonisation plus a 50th birthday party, reports a BenarNews contributor's...
Superpower rivalry makes Pacific aid a bargaining chip – vulnerable nations...
ANALYSIS: By Sione Tekiteki, Auckland University of Technology
The A$140 million aid agreement between Australia and Nauru signed last week is a prime example of...
Northern Marianas leaders meet Taiwan President Lai Ching-te in Guam
By Mark Rabago, RNZ Pacific Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas correspondent
Northern Marianas Governor Arnold Palacios and Senator Celina Babauta have travelled to Guam to...
How the US election may affect Pacific Island nations
By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific senior journalist
As the US election unfolds, American territories such as the Northern Marianas, American Samoa, and Guam, along with...
Greenlight given to Guam, American Samoa for PIF associate membership
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist
Pacific foreign ministers have given their nod of approval for United States territories Guam and American Samoa to be...
Caitlin Johnstone: US presidential races hide the criminality of the Empire
COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone
The thing I hate about Western electoral politics in general and US presidential races in particular is that they take the...
Eugene Doyle: It’s bigger than NATO and it’s heading our way
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
Australia and New Zealand’s populations must now wake up to the fact that our countries have been drawn into what ForeignPolicy.com...
A role for Pacific media in charting a pragmatic global outlook
By Shailendra Bahadur Singh and Amit Sarwal in Suva
Given the intensifying situation, journalists, academics and experts joined to state the need for the Pacific,...
PNG Communications Minister calls for media to ‘protect, preserve Pacific identity’
Wansolwara News
Here is the speech by Papua New Guinea's Minister for Communication and Information Technology, Timothy Masiu, at the 2024 Pacific International Media Conference...
New Zealand framing China as ‘the devil’ insincere, says Pacific lecturer
RNZ Pacific
An international relations lecturer says New Zealand's framing of China in the perceived Pacific geopolitical struggle is "disingenuous".
Victoria University of Wellington's Nanai Anae...