China recently announced a mission to send its military hospital ship, Peace Ark, to the Pacific Islands. This is not surprising, given regional head-to-head competition ..
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USS Benfold (DDG-65) is at anchor off Koror, Republic of Palau in 2012. US Navy Photo
This post has been updated to correct that Yun was speaking at the Hudson Institute on Friday.
The Freely Associated States lying between Hawaii and the Philippines are crucial to the United States remaining a Pacific power, the special envoy to these three island nations said Friday.
To China, the Republics of the Marshall Islands and Palau and the Federated States of Micronesia “are the Second Island chain”...
https://news.usni.org/2023/04/28/island-nations-key-to-u-s-maintaining-position-as-pacific-power
Authorities in the Marshall Islands have reported the successful rescue of all 23 occupants of a foreign-flagged fishing vessel that capsized and sank near the capital Ma ..
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Queensland, Australia-based marine projects company Hall Contracting has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Solomon Islands-based civil construction co ..
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Sentinel-class fast response cutter USCGC Oliver Henry (WPC-1140) crew arrives in Port Moresby for a port visit on Aug. 23, 2022. US Coast Guard Photo
Solomon Islands Prime Minister Sogavare has announced a temporary moratorium on visits by foreign naval vessels after turning away a U.S Coast Guard Cutter last week.
Speaking at a ceremony welcoming hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH-19) to Honiara, Sogavare said that bureaucratic issues were behind the denial of diplomatic clearance to USCGC Oliver...
In January, the UK’s defence chief, Tony Radakin, warned that Russian submarine and underwater activities were directly threatening subsea cable systems. There’s spe ..
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The crew of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) Armidale-class patrol boat HMAS Ararat rescued a Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) boat crew last Saturday, May 21, a ..
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Newly delivered maritime security vessels include a naval patrol vessel for South Africa, a fisheries protection vessel for one of China’s well-known nature preserv ..
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The United States rightly considers itself a “Pacific nation.” It has been engaged there almost since its founding—and the US west coast stretches to Guam. ..
The Australian Department of Defence (DOD) has taken delivery of a new Guardian-class patrol boat from Austal Australia. The steel-hulled vessel was then handed over to t ..