On his first tour of Asia last week, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told service members on the Pacific territory of ...

Some countries are promising swift countermeasures; others are asking for an opportunity to negotiate with the U.S. to avoid ...

In the South Pacific, New Caledonia sits at the entry of the Coral Sea towards Australia, which made it a key support base for the Allies in the Pacific during World War II. Wallis and Futuna ... The ...

Trump says that during his first term, he had been making plans to institute reciprocal tariffs. But he notes that after a ...

“China serves as the instrumental element in Asia-Pacific defence market growth, and with the world’s second ... Last month, China sent war ships to circle the Australian coastline and conduct ...

Experts have told Newsweek that the island chain strategy, which was formulated by the United States during the Cold War ... in the Indo-Pacific. We're not going to live in a world in which ...

SYDNEY, March 11 (Reuters) - Australian consumer sentiment hit a three ... shellshock as global trade war looms April 4, 2025 European Marketscategory Stocks slump again after China fires back ...

“The ultimate aim is to bring defence budgetary levels up to 2 per ... Pacific and the world.” The arms race comes as both sides of Australian politics warn the country is facing a deteriorating ...

Both Australia, a young federation deeply tied to the British Empire, and the United States, a rising but not yet super power, saw value in signalling US Pacific ... before World War II, but ...