Micronesia

Across Asia and the Pacific, a new generation is attending the U.N. climate change conference to make their voices heard. These are some of their stories.

Despite domestic political headwinds, Biden’s engagement at the second U.S.-Pacific Islands summit was welcomed, as were newly announced funds, initiatives and an expanding diplomatic footprint.

Micronesia has logged over 1,000 cases just a week since becoming the final nation in the world with a population of more than 100,000 to experience a COVID outbreak.

The Compacts of Free Association (COFA) between the U.S. and the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, and Palau touch on nearly every U.S. national priority. So why are renegotiations stuck in limbo?

The decision by Micronesian countries to leave the PIF will have major strategic implications.

Within the PIF, leadership has typically rotated between Polynesian, Melanesian, and Micronesian states. Until now, it seems.

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

Amid shifting geopolitical tides, the race is on to choose a new secretary general for the PIF.

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

Chuuk’s decision to delay a secession vote is a significant victory for America’s diplomatic, economic, and security competition with China in the Pacific Islands.

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

Previously Micronesia led successful efforts to accelerate the phase out of hydrochlorofluorocarbons.