U.S. President Joe Biden (left) hosts French President Emmanuel Macron for a state visit to Washington, D.C., Dec. 3, 2022. Credit: Official White House photo The December 1 meeting and joint ...

A few weeks ago, commercial flights over the Tasman Sea — located between Australia and New Zealand — were forced to divert after they were warned by the Chinese navy that its warships were about to ...

TO STRATEGIC PLANNERS in Beijing and Washington, the newest locus of an intense great-power contest between China and the United States and its allies is self-evident: the vast southern sweep of the ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Kyler Schardein is the Intern for Global Governance at the Council on Foreign ...

The election of Joe Biden as the next president of the United States is providing some much needed relief for the rest of the world. For Pacific Island states, Biden’s commitment to have the United ...

Today’s geopolitical circumstance, defined by the rivalry between the United States and China, has redefined the dynamics of regional and global orders. This reality is palpable in the Pacific region, ...

The last time most Americans paid attention to the Solomon Islands was in the middle of World War II, when the United States and Japan waged a prolonged naval battle in the waters and skies ...

As a Pacific state with Pacific borders and an escalating rivalry with China, the U.S. must continue to partner with the Pacific Islands in new, innovative ways. The U.S. must adopt a clear-eyed ...

The COVID-19 pandemic in the Pacific has several frontlines. In addition to health security, a geopolitical front has opened up: China and the contest for influence in the Pacific region. The Pacific ...

China’s Belt and Road Initiative is expanding into the Pacific through infrastructure projects and concessional loans, continuing a long history of flexible sovereignty influenced by external powers.

IT is well for the science of history that it ceased to be the mere picturing of fragments of yesterday, and rose to contemplate the phenomena and laws of all human progress, while primitive man still ...