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Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown speaks at a Pacific Islands Forum meeting in 2024. Photo: AP
Pacific nations

Cook Islands PM re-elected despite row with New Zealand over China ties

The result shows that local voters are not as concerned about geopolitical issues as claimed in earlier reports, analysts say.

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Pacific nations

China’s missile test exposes lack of unity among Pacific island nations

Australia

Australia refuses release of climate fund reports for Pacific nation Tuvalu

China-Japan relations

Rising seas: Japan makes pitch to Pacific nations caught in US-China rivalry

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi tells summit that Tokyo is committed to helping regional partners strengthen ‘autonomy and resilience’.

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Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (centre) poses with representatives from the region during the opening of the Island States Ocean Summit in Tokyo on Wednesday. Photo: AFP
Pacific nations

Pacific Islanders skip food, medicine amid global fuel shortage from Iran war

Pacific nations are the most reliant on diesel for power generation worldwide. They imported about 2.2 million tonnes of fuel in 2025.

United Nations

Plastic pollution talks in disarray as nations reject draft treaty

Some countries blasted the lack of legally binding action, while oil-producing states say the text goes too far.

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Israel-Gaza war

My Take | Taiwan donation vow to Israeli settlement is cynical and foolish

Fulfilling the pledge would be a violation of international law, as Israel’s military occupation of the West Bank is universally recognised as illegal.

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Taiwan’s representative in Israel Abby Ya-Ping Lee visits the Binyamin regional council in Samaria on July 6, 2025. Photo: Handout
Pacific nations

Tiny Pacific nations fear US travel bans. Why?

Tuvalu, Tonga and Vanuatu all appeared on a list of nations facing new visa curbs. A US official says Washington has ‘valid concerns’.

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Pacific nations

The future of climate migration? Tuvalu’s people seek a new home in Australia

About 3,125 Tuvaluans have entered the ballot for a climate visa to live in Australia, but analysts warn of brain drain.

Diplomacy

Opinion | New Zealand need not fear China’s growing ties with Pacific nations

Rather than falling victim to zero-sum illusions, the West must embrace the multiplex nature of Pacific diplomacy.

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Cook Islands’ Prime Minister Mark Brown visits the National Deep Sea Centre in Qingdao, China in this picture released on February 12, 2025. Photo: Mark Brown, Prime Minister of the Cook Islands / Facebook via Reuters
Taiwan

Why the ‘Out of Taiwan’ language theory is a cross-strait battleground

Mainland Chinese academics are countering the hypothesis that the island was the ancestral homeland of the Austronesian peoples.

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The Austronesians are a group of ethnic communities spread across a vast region of the world – including Taiwan. Photo: Shutterstock
Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Tuvalu, where athletes train on airport runway, send one-man team to Paris Games

Karalo Maibuca will jet across the world to race for Tuvalu in the men’s 100 metres at next month’s Games, having been his country’s flag-bearer in Tokyo three years ago.

Australia

Australia boosts aid to Taiwan-ally Tuvalu to counter mainland China’s influence

China’s ambitions for a greater security presence in the Pacific became an election issue in Tuvalu in January.

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Taiwan

Taiwan thanks Tuvalu’s new government for retaining diplomatic ties

The small South Pacific state says it will uphold its relationship with Taipei and look at options to make it more durable.

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Tuvalu’s new government, led by Prime Minister Feleti Teo (front centre) has reaffirmed its diplomatic ties with Taipei. Photo: AFP
Pacific nations

Tuvalu’s Taiwan ties in the balance as Pacific nation gets new PM

The issue of diplomatic recognition is up for debate in the island nation, one of only three remaining Pacific allies of Taiwan. The new prime minister’s position on the subject has not been made public.

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Funafuti, capital island of Tuvalu, is seen from a plane. The Pacific nation is one of just 12 states that still formally recognise Taiwan. Photo: AP
Pacific nations

Tuvalu’s pro-Taiwan PM loses seat in poll keenly watched by Beijing, US

Prime minister Natano’s electoral loss came amid reports his country may switch diplomatic recognition to China.

Australia

Australia says it won’t interfere if Taiwan ally Tuvalu shifts ties to Beijing

Foreign Minister Penny Wong said it’s ‘a sovereign decision’ for Tuvalu amid reports the Pacific island nation could follow Nauru’s lead in shifting its alliance to China.

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Australia-Tuvalu treaty sparks fears of population drain, threat to sovereignty

Australia’s agreement with Tuvalu may provide younger locals with a migration pathway but is seen by older islanders as an encroachment of sovereignty.

High tide floods a “borrow pit” dug by US forces during World War II in order to build the airstrip in Funafuti Atoll. File photo: AFP
Australia

Tuvalu gets climate win in new Australia pact, but it comes with a ‘trade-off’

Security and defence conditions in the two countries’ upgraded partnership mean Tuvalu may have to ‘surrender some sovereignty’ as Australia keeps an eye on China’s activities in the region.

Australia

Landmark climate refuge deal allows Tuvaluans to live and work in Australia

The treaty would also commit Australia to defend the Pacific island in the case of foreign invasion or natural disaster.

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Tuvalu minister exits UN conference after China blocks Taiwanese delegates

Foreign Minister Simon Kofe reportedly withdrew from the event after China objected to the presence of Taiwanese delegates.

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Tuvalu is one of the nations most at risk from global warming. Photo: Getty Images
Profile

Profile | Ship captain who rescued a crashed Boeing 747 from Hong Kong’s harbour

Master mariner and salvage expert Alan Loynd recalls recovering the China Airlines plane in 1993, towing a container ship backwards in the Taiwan Strait and greeting Queen Elizabeth in Tuvalu.

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Alan Loynd,, surveying the wreck of ‘Sunrise Orient’ off Cheung Chau in May 2014. CREDIT: Alan Loynd
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