Pacific Ocean

China is building military bases all over the Pacific. U.S. access is hung up over decades-old nuclear tests.

Each has bipartisan support and could be taken in short order.

Tanzania, Cambodia, and the UAE are on China’s wish list—and now Kiribati, within striking distance of Hawaii.

Drinking more shiraz isn’t enough to counter Beijing.

Here’s why and what their story means for other seafarers.

It’s a smart step to counter China, but the next ones won’t be as easy.

They have created a strikingly successful scheme that prevents overfishing and raises local incomes at once.

How the prime minister of a tiny group of Pacific islands has become an international power player.

The damage done to U.S. standing in Asia will take decades to repair.

From Pacific bases to the Himalayas, Washington and Beijing are facing off.

Racism in international relations, the state of the German armed forces, and Hindu nationalism is creeping into Nepal.

The strategic significance of the vote could not have been higher.

The United States and Australia must work together to support Pacific states.

There are plenty of reasons Asia has been multipolar for almost all of recorded history, and Beijing understands them all.

The West needs a strong, committed, engaged White House to hedge against China’s inexorable rise.

Officers throughout the Chinese navy believe that China will soon end the United States’ decades-long naval hegemony in the Western Pacific.

The secretary of defense's trip to Singapore presents an opportunity to address the region as a whole.

China has begun increasingly relying on economic coercion to pressure its neighbors and threaten U.S. interests in the Pacific.

And it was right under our noses.