Sep. 28, 2024 00:16 AM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — When veteran U.S. diplomat Kurt Campbell traveled to the Solomon Islands to counter Beijing's influence in the South Pacific country, he quickly saw just how far China would go to spread its message.
The Biden administration’s Asia czar woke up one morning in...
Sep. 02, 2024 05:12 AM EDT
NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga (AP) — Turmoil over China’s push for influence in the South Pacific has overshadowed the region’s most important diplomatic summit after a Pacific island leader apparently pledged to erase an affirmation of Taiwan’s involvement in the meeting from its closing statement, at...
Aug. 27, 2024 03:17 AM EDT
NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga (AP) — As leaders of Pacific nations were welcomed to their annual meeting in Nuku’alofa, Tonga, on Monday, they were greeted first by torrential rain and then by an earthquake.
The magnitude 6.9 quake was deep enough not to cause damage, but the long shudder...