Tag: US-China rivalry
‘Two-way highway’ – PNG-US defence pact signed in spite of protests
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...
US envoy gets two of three north Pacific nations to sign...
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...
Honiara doesn’t want to be forced to choose sides, says Foreign...
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...
‘Stay vigilant’, Guam governor warns over China’s Pacific intrusion
By Mar-Vic Cagurangan in Tumon, Guam
Guam Governor Lou Leon Guerrero has expressed support for the Federated States of Micronesia’s move to oppose China’s proposed...
Climate rivalry between secretive autocracy and corrupted democracy
COMMENTARY: By Megan Darby, editor of Climate Home News
When it comes to the world’s two biggest emitters, we are caught between a secretive autocracy...
Bastille Day message: Paris must ‘re-arm in Pacific’, says commander
RNZ Pacific
A senior French military commander says France should re-arm in the Pacific and consider restoring its forces to a level of 30 years...
China’s whirlwind Pacific tour a slight success with several signed deals
ANALYSIS: By the RNZ Pacific editorial team
China has been successful in signing multiple bilateral agreements with almost a dozen Pacific Island nations during its...
RSF condemns Chinese curb on reporters during Pacific island tour
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned a media blackout imposed on events during Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s 10-day tour of...
O’Neill warns Marape over ‘improper’ eleventh hour China meeting
PNG Post-Courier
Opposition People’s National Congress leader Peter O’Neill is urging Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape and the government to refrain from signing...
The Taiwan ‘prize’ and the US-China rivalry in the Pacific
ANALYSIS: By Sheldon Chanel in Suva
The uproar over the recent fisticuffs between Chinese and Taiwanese diplomats in Fiji may have subsided, with the Fijian...
John Pilger: Another Hiroshima is coming — unless we stop it...
ANALYSIS: By John Pilger
When I first went to Hiroshima in 1967, the shadow on the steps was still there. It was an almost perfect...