A climate for change in the Pacific
Tuesday
10th November
2020
Pacific island states hope to work with a new administration in the White House to galvanise global action on climate…
Category Archive: Topic-Politics
Weekly Pacific Bulletin | 4 November
Wednesday
4th November
2020
Controversial funding of biomedical start-up in Papua New Guinea Government funding of a biomedical start-up in PNG has caused…
Weekly Pacific Bulletin | 28 October
Wednesday
28th October
2020
Candidate registrations conclude in Samoa The period for registration of candidates in Samoa has concluded. This is part of…
From the Forum Foreign Ministers…
Thursday
22nd October
2020
Last week, the Foreign Ministers of the Pacific Islands Forum met as one of the standing committees of the inter-governmental…
Southeast Asia Snapshot #5
Thursday
22nd October
2020
South East Asia Snapshot with Dr Lucy West - Indonesia and Japan to strengthen security ties. Vietnam and Japan confirm…
Trump took a sledgehammer to US-China relations. This won’t be an easy fix, even if Biden wins
Tuesday
20th October
2020
Dr Hui Feng, shares his insights on US-China relations and why a new president won't fix the problem.
Social media and democracy in the Philippines
Monday
19th October
2020
The digitalisation of almost every aspect of civic life has brought forth a new constitutional moment. The hyper-connectivity of…
China’s image problem is worsening globally. It’s time for Beijing to consider a diplomatic reset
Thursday
15th October
2020
As the increasingly virulent anti-China rhetoric has made clear in recent months, China has not been very popular in…
COVID-19 rhetoric and governance in the Philippines
Wednesday
14th October
2020
COVID-19 cases in Philippines continue to rise daily by the thousands. The continued high number of COVID-19 cases in the…
Thought Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis was a pre-election shocker? Wait until he plays the Taiwan card
Friday
9th October
2020
The world was shocked, if not entirely surprised, by US President Donald Trump’s Covid-19 diagnosis earlier this month. But…