The Pacific Islands is the world's most aid-reliant region, with geopolitical competition for influence between donor nations fuelling record levels of development assistance, a survey released on ...

So far, the Pacific Islands have refused to be drawn into a geopolitical game but might seek to reduce ties with former colonial powers by engaging with more countries, including China, regional ...

The geopolitical competition for influence among China and other powers appears to be heating up in the Pacific Island region. However, recent data from the Lowy Institute’s Pacific Aid Map ...

Competition returns to the Pacific. When the Cold War ended, Pacific island countries “fell off the map” of global geopolitics. Concerns the Soviet Union might establish a naval base in the ...

Biden cannot let Pacific island nations fall into China’s hands. ... One look at the map and a dose of history tell you all you need to know about the cards these relatively poor islands can play.

There are plenty of heated arguments and unanswered questions about aid in the Pacific, especially when it comes to China's role. Now the Lowy Institute has crunched the numbers.

This year’s Lowy Institute Pacific Aid Map changes that, for the first time mapping intra-regional development financing. From 2008 to 2022, Pacific Island countries have spent an average of $14 ...

In the next 30 years, Pacific Island nations such as Tuvalu, Kiribati, and Fiji will experience at least 8 inches (15 centimeters) of sea level rise, according to an analysis by NASA's sea level ...

Britain began building its Pacific empire out into the islands from 1788 when settlers first began colonizing what became known as Australia, and then New Zealand 50 years later in 1840.

News; Family; Water Cooler: Learn about Asian and Pacific Island nations on YouTube May 25, 2021 Updated Tue., May 25, 2021 at 8:45 p.m. A large section of land between the trees washed away in ...

What low-lying island nations need to do, Kench says, is to take stock of their assets: the islands themselves. "Yet these countries know so little about their islands," he says.