Chinese policing deals in the Solomon Islands
JON FRAENKEL | Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has used Chinese money to shore up his government. Whether alignment with Chinese interests… Read More
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Pacific Outlook Bulletin | 2 August
TESS NEWTON CAIN | Marshall Islands accepts Compact funding offer In something of an about turn, the government of Marshall Islands has agreed to… Read More
Pacific Outlook Bulletin | 19 July
TESS NEWTON CAIN | Prime Minister Sogavare returns from China The Prime Minister of Solomon Islands, Manasseh Sogavare, has returned from a trip… Read More
Soft balancing and the slow demise of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
IAN HALL | On July 4, 2023, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosted a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation virtual leaders’ summit. Much of the … Read More
What’s behind Australia’s $1 billion defence deal with Germany?
PETER LAYTON | Early last year, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz declared Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a major historical turning point—a zeitenwende. That turning point… Read More
Southeast Asia snapshot #54
SOVINDA PO | Indonesia moves site of ASEAN military drills away from the South China Sea In less than a month after… Read More
Pacific Outlook Bulletin | 5 July
TESS NEWTON CAIN | Shipping and climate change in focus for Pacific countries Negotiations ahead of this week’s meeting of the International Maritime Organization… Read More
Pacific Perspectives on the World three years on: progress, problems, and gaps
JAMES COX | In 2019 I convened a team of local and Australian researchers (led by Griffith’s Tess Newton Cain) who brought together the… Read More
Chinese spy bases on Myanmar’s Great Coco Island? Here we go again
ANDREW SELTH | A little history should help dampen some wild speculation about eavesdropping facilities in the Indian Ocean. On 31 March, Chatham House… Read More
Not the Indo-Pacific: A Melanesian view on strategic competition
PATRICK KAIKU | Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare recently affirmed his country’s adherence to the “friend to all, enemy to none” foreign policy ideal. He,… Read More
