July 2024
Australia doubles down on its subsea cable diplomacy in South Pacific
The rollout of undersea cables has become a major focus of the strategic competition between Western nations and China to gain influence in the Pacific.
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- Staff
March 2024
US passes long-delayed deal to fund crucial Pacific Island agreements
Although the three island nations involved are tiny, they span 4000 km across the Pacific, providing critical access for the US to operate in the Indo-Pacific region.
- Demetri Sevastopulo and Kathrin Hille
November 2023
- Exclusive
- Australia's China challenge
Warning to developing countries over Chinese hacking
As Pacific leaders gather against the backdrop of China-US competition, a new report highlights how Chinese hackers managed to burrow into Cambodian networks.
- Andrew Tillett
October 2022
China retreats from Pacific aid as debt fears rise
The Pacific received record foreign aid and loans in 2020 as it grappled with COVID - but Beijing has scaled back its dollars, new report shows.
- Andrew Tillett
May 2022
Quad plans system to track illegal fishing by China
The system will allow the US and its partners to monitor illegal fishing even when fishing boats have turned off the transponders that are typically used to track maritime vessels.
- Demetri Sevastopulo
April 2022
‘Remarkable similarity’: Solomons scripted by China, says PM
Relations between Australia and Solomon Islands have nosedived after Scott Morrison dismissed an attack on his government by Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare as being scripted by Beijing.
- Phillip Coorey and Michael Smith
Solomons PM slams AUKUS as China calls military base ‘fake news’
Chinese officials have told other Pacific island nations that Australia is interfering in their affairs.
- Michael Smith
- Opinion
- Pacific diplomacy
Opening labour market to the Pacific would transform relations
Australian jobs for Pacific Islanders would do more to match China’s economic appeal in the region than almost any amount of aid.
- Stephen Howes
December 2021
Japan and Australia agree to strengthen security ties
Japan and Australia have agreed to strengthen security ties and collaborate on infrastructure projects in the Indo-Pacific.
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- Michael Smith
September 2020
Nigel Ray nominated for World Bank
The Morrison government has nominated former deputy Treasury secretary Nigel Ray for the post of World Bank executive director.
- Matthew Cranston
January 2020
World needs to prepare for 'millions' of climate displaced: UN
The world needs to prepare for millions of people being driven from their homes by the impact of climate change, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said.
- Luke Baker
August 2019
- Opinion
- Pacific diplomacy
Diabetes devastating the Pacific, not sea level scares
Australia should focus on the real threats to Pacific islanders, rather than exaggerated ones.
- Fiona Kotvojs