South Pacific
Australia Launches South Pacific Islands Training Initiative to Counter China
Australia plans to establish an international defense school for the purpose of training the militaries of small Pacific island nations, according to Minister for International Development and the Pacific Pat...
China Is Bloodlessly Dominating the South Pacific
The next great military threat to the United States could be brewing on a chain of islands that’s so small it doesn’t appear on most world maps. Most people have...
China Is Expanding Its Island-Building Strategy into the Pacific
The world knows the Republic of Kiribati as a very low-lying nation in the mid-Pacific that is in danger of inundation as the climate changes and sea levels rise. Much...
Will China Use Its South China Sea Tactics To Threaten Australia?
ASPI’s three recent reports on the Pacific—by Richard Herr; Graeme Dobell; and John Lee—reflect the widening discussion in Australia of the region’s shifting dynamics. As Dobell put it, Canberra’s deep strategic denial instinct...
This Country Sits on Top of a Giant Ancient Volcanic Plume
Back in the 1970s, scientists came up with a revolutionary idea about how Earth’s deep interior works. They proposed it is slowly churning like a lava lamp, with buoyant blobs...
Is China Getting Ready to Build a Military Base in the South Pacific?
A Sydney Morning Herald report alleging that Beijing is eyeing a military base in the South Pacific provoked swift denials from both China and the island nation of Vanuatu on...