Prior to his visit to Guam, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told an audience in Hawaii that the United States will defend its interests and allies in the Indo-Pacific region with the “most lethal ...

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FILE - U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Commander, Admiral Samuel Paparo, gestures during a press conference at the Philippine Military Academy in Baguio, northern Philippines, Aug. 29, 2024.

Examine the strategic orientation of Australia, India, Japan, South Korea, and Vietnam toward fostering order in the Indo-Pacific. These five powers are all deeply invested in fostering order in ...

As the world cruises through spring, meteorologists and climatologists are closely watching ever-changing water temperatures in the Eastern and Central Pacific Ocean to determine the status of the El ...

The last time the U.K. deployed a carrier strike group to the Indo-Pacific was in 2021, which was led by aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth (R08). Upon departing Portsmouth, the carrier will ...

Myanmar's catastrophic earthquake last month came amid a flurry of smaller earthquakes across the Asia Pacific. The magnitude-7.7 quake near Mandalay on March 28 left more than 3,600 people dead ...

Ding Haitao/Xinhua via Getty Images China’s involvement across the Indo-Pacific in March 2025 ranged from warming ties with India and deepening cooperation with Bangladesh and Pakistan to ...

MOST Pacific island countries got off relatively lightly with last week’s Trump “reciprocal” tariff announcement. Ten were given tariffs of 10%, the minimum handed out. (Timor-Leste also got a 10% ...

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The Pacific presents several strategic opportunities for China, from access to much-needed resources such as fish stocks, timber, and critical minerals to geostrategic objectives such as displacing ...

DENVER — The chief executive of Union Pacific says his company will work through tariff shocks gripping the economy the same way it worked through the pandemic. “I can’t control what ...