China, 5 Pacific Island nations ink deal to deepen partnership; 'move boosts cooperation in marine economy and green development'

Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao meets with senior officials from five Pacific Island countries on November 4, 2025. Photo: screenshot from the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM)'s website China and five Pacific Island countries on Tuesday signed...

Respect for Pacific Island sovereignty matters more than hollow 'democracy' rhetoric

Illustration: Liu Rui/GT For years, Western media has sought to "weaponize" China-Pacific Islands cooperation, smearing mutually beneficial projects as tools of "influence expansion." An article published in Foreign Affairs on Monday once again...

A country that said no: Palauans nix US proposal to send deportees to Palau

While ramping up its crackdown on undocumented aliens, unwanted foreigners and asylum seekers, Washington has lined up countries it hopes will accept the deportees. Palau is on the U.S. list of potential takers. The Trump administration proposes...

China, Pacific Island nations sign economic partnership

China and five Pacific Island nations sign economic partnership, November 4, 2025. /CGTN China and five Pacific Island nations sign economic partnership, November 4, 2025. /CGTN China has signed a landmark Framework Agreement on Enhanced Economic...

China, 5 Pacific Island countries sign framework agreement to upgrade economic partnership: MOFCOM

Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao on Tuesday met with senior officials from five Pacific Island countries — the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of Kiribati, the Republic of Nauru, the Republic of Vanuatu and the Republic of Fiji....

List of Island Countries in the World

Island Countries: Our planet is home to many unique and fascinating countries, and among them, island nations hold a special place. An island country is a nation that is surrounded by water and does not share land borders with any other country....

Japan Can Keep the Indo-Pacific Open and Free

As the United States rethinks its role in the international order it has championed since the end of World War II, Japan is on the frontlines of the challenge to rules-based commerce and diplomacy. For the past decade, Tokyo has promoted the idea...

Solomon Islands to build humanitarian warehouse in Malaita

The Solomon Islands will soon establish a provincial humanitarian warehouse in Auki, Malaita Province, as part of a regional effort to boost disaster preparedness across the Pacific. The project is part of the Pacific Humanitarian Warehousing...

Sovereignty for Some: Racism, Immigration and the Global Tax Order

President Donald Trump has reimagined refugee admissions in the United States. His plan to slash the program by nearly 95% would gut what was once the world’s most generous resettlement program. Even more chilling than the scale of the reduction...

The Pacific Islands Challenge

As the strategic rivalry between China and the United States intensifies across the Indo-Pacific, the Taiwan Strait is often seen as the key flash point. Yet whether the regional balance holds or tips into conflict will also be shaped by choices...

Albanese government deports two more men to Nauru in secret, infuriating human rights advocates

Another two men from the NZYQ-affected cohort have been deported to Nauru in a process human rights advocates say is shrouded in secrecy. Sources told Guardian Australia a Sudanese national, who was detained in the Yongah Hill centre just outside...

Nauru and Guam: A tale of two islands

From the Publisher's Desk By Mar-Vic Cagurangan Nauru, the world’s smallest island republic, is emerging as a model of fiscal prudence in the Pacific region. Determined to take charge of its future, Nauru established the Intergenerational Trust...

Palau takes first step to building Humanitarian Warehouse

Palau has taken the first step to the construction of a warehouse, that will keep emergency supplies for disasters. Ministers attending the 2nd Pacific Disaster Risk Management Ministers Meeting in Koror, Palau officiated at the groundbreaking...

How to watch Club Brugge vs FC Barcelona: free streams, TV details for Champions League 2025/26 game as Marcus Rashford looks to extend his impressive form

Club Brugge welcome Barcelona to the Jan Breydel Stadium, hoping to pull off an upset in the 2025/26 Champions League. The Belgian side have endured a difficult run in Europe, suffering back-to-back defeats against Atalanta and Bayern Munich in...

Rare earths, rough seas: FSM at the crossroads of US-China resource rivalry

China’s new restrictions on the export of rare earth minerals are reverberating across the Pacific, raising concerns that the Federated States of Micronesia could become a new arena for resource competition between Beijing and Washington. The...

Pacts epitome of South-South cooperation

In a move to enhance economic ties, China's Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao met with economic and trade officials of Micronesia, Vanuatu, Nauru, Kiribati and Fiji, to sign economic partnership upgrading framework agreements between China and each...

Pacific Islands News Roundup – October 24 – 30, 2025

Political Leadership and Regionalism, Peace and Security ‘Real Action’: Pacific voices growing louder over West Papua’s escalating crisis (PMN) China backs Fiji’s Ocean of Peace vision (Fiji Sun) Cook Islanders confront US-funded vessel over...

Pacific Defence Ministers escalate militarisation across the region

The 10th annual South Pacific Defence Ministers’ Meeting (SPDMM) convened in Viña del Mar, Chile from October 22-24, amid the escalating imperialist war drive across the region, led by the United States, aimed against China. Delegates to the South...

Australia deports foreign criminals to remote Pacific island

Australia has started deporting foreign-born criminals to a barren Pacific island under a controversial new deal. A cohort of 350 migrants, including murderers, paedophiles and drug smugglers, are being sent to the tiny atoll of Nauru after...

Inside the country with visa-free entry for almost everyone - and the most beautiful beaches in the world

Tucked in the western Pacific Ocean is a country made up of more than 600 islands scattered across an expanse of ocean - five times the size of France. The Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) is an archipelago composed of both high volcanic...