Marshall Islands

Author Jon Mitchell discusses the environmental contamination that has accompanied the U.S. military presence in Japan, Guam, the Marshall Islands, and elsewhere.

A looming north-south split in the Pacific Islands Forum poses both challenges and opportunities to the rival superpowers.

With its eyes on China, the United States seeks to reaffirm its presence in the western Pacific.

Over the next few years, the United States is expected to start renegotiating the terms of its Compacts of Free Association.

In focusing efforts to promote its indigenous peoples and culture, Taiwan is making a political gambit in the Pacific as well.

The U.S. is finally taking a more overt interest in the strategic importance of the Freely Associated States.

Can the world come to its senses on nuclear weapons?

Long motivated by a recognition war with Taiwan, China's latest diplomacy in the region takes on a strategic tone.

A tiny Pacific Island nation takes on the world’s nuclear powers.

The tiny Pacific island state is trying to hold nuclear weapons states accountable to their disarmament commitments.

The Pacific Island nation has declared a state of national emergency.