For Pacific Islands, climate change trumps all other threats to their security. While they welcome Australia’s new emission targets, this is an issue of survival that demands greater ambition.

The Pacific Islands region has traditionally been peripheral to alliance deterrence discussions. That’s beginning to change. The US-Australia Alliance and Deterrence in the Pacific Islands ...

Amid the escalating US-led confrontation with China, the Pacific Islands Forum approved a far-reaching policing initiative that will strengthen Canberra’s strategic position in the region.

Jonathan Pryke, director of the Pacific Islands Program at the Lowy Institute, an independent Australia-based think tank, said climate change is “more than just a thought exercise for a country ...

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s trip to what has been seen as a diplomatic backwater put the resources-rich and strategically significant Pacific Islands squarely on the geopolitical map.

Pacific Islands the world’s most aid-reliant region, report finds. Australia is the largest donor to the islands, providing about 40 percent of total development finance from 2008-2021.

Australia is moving to boost ties with small island nations off its eastern coastline, pushing back against China’s growing influence in the Pacific Ocean as the virus outbreak hinders travel.

The Pacific island nations are spread across a broad area, between Hawaii, Asia and Australia. They prize their sovereignty and want to be seen as autonomous actors.