China sent a team of four technical specialists to Vanuatu to help with earthquake recovery efforts this week, in a Pacific islands first for Beijing as it steps up engagement with nations in the ...

While changes to China’s foreign aid patterns in the Pacific are likely ... As Beijing has increased support to Kiribati, the Solomon Islands and Micronesia, China has pared down investments ...

The U.S. and Australia have been racing to limit China's security ambitions in the Pacific Islands ever ... "Prime Minister Manele has agreed to extra law and order support from Australia, but ...

It is the first time Beijing has sent a technical team to a country in the Pacific islands ... are among the tools that China uses to build ties. [The recovery support from Beijing is] consistent ...

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — Navies across the Asia-Pacific region are boosting amphibious capabilities in an effort to ...

The deals, which support ... the two island nations from signing security-related deals with China. Beijing has been aggressively expanding its cooperation with islands in the Pacific in recent ...

Nearly 1pm on December 17, 2024, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake that struck off the South Pacific island nation ... from the mutual support of the two peoples. Once again, China has offered its ...

The deal provides Nauru with direct budgetary support, stable banking ... But former Pacific Islands Forum secretary-general Meg Taylor has warned: Pacific leaders were being sidelined in major ...

Labor came to office in the wake of a major strategic shock, with the Solomon Islands ... keep China at bay. With the Pacific Policing Initiative and the Pacific Support Group, it has capitalised ...

"The Philippine side, with U.S. support and solicitation ... by a series of international treaties and has never included China's" Spratly Islands and Scarborough Shoal, he added.