"China provides weapons, military vehicles and vessels, uniforms, training, and military buildings” to the armed forces of Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Vanuatu, and now the Solomon Islands," Brady wrote on Twitter.

Morrison however said he was one of the few Australian leaders to visit Fiji, Vanuatu, and the Solomon Islands in recent times, while also noting the opening of six diplomatic missions in the South Pacific.

In reality, the BRI initiatives have turned six Pacific governments—Cook Islands, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Tonga, and Vanuatu—into Beijing's debtors.

"On Jan. 8, 2019, my family, our crew member, and I were on a 10-day transit from the country of Vanuatu to the Marshall Islands," Niki, now 19, shared via email.

Nauru, Tuvalu and Vanuatu are signatories to the agreement and will become parties to it 60 days after ratifying it. Gus McCubbing in Melbourne  

Apart from the Solomon Islands, where he was received with a red carpet welcome, Wang will also visit Kiribati, Samoa, Fiji, Tonga, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, and Timor-Leste, the CCP’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs revealed late on May 24.

In late May, top Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials held a virtual summit called the Pacific Island Countries—China Political Leadership Dialogue attended by the leaders of Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Niuē, Tonga, Vanuatu, Kiribati,

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center cautioned the quake could cause tsunami waves of up to 10 feet in Vanuatu and up to 3 feet in Tonga, other South Pacific islands, and Latin America's Pacific coast.

In the past seven months, the Australian government led by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has increased Australia's security agreements with Pacific island nations, including new security pacts with Vanuatu and Fiji and security aid to Samoa, in the

"That doesn't mean it is ignoring the other doors though—while we are now focused on Solomons, there are major moves being made in a range of other countries, including Vanuatu, Palau, and [the] Marshall Islands.

Vanuatu or Papua New Guinea or the Solomon Islands, there's going to be a significant danger to the ability of the United States to operate freely and independently in the Indo-Pacific. And that's a military threat, …economic threat,” Gray noted. 

Pacific, while the Australian government has tried to fend off the CCP’s advances, notably by backing a US$1.6 billion takeover of dominant telecom company Digicel Pacific, which provides mobile and network services across Papua New Guinea, Nauru, Samoa, Vanuatu

Australia has already started helping with the cleanup in Solomon Islands, promised relief supplies like tents and water containers to Vanuatu and would also offer support in Fiji, Payne added.

Beijing has presented the allegedly corruption-induced agreement with the Solomon Islands as a model for other Asia-Pacific islands, including Kiribati and possibly Tonga and Vanuatu.

Vanuatu Prime Minister Bob Loughman speaks at a panel discussion during the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) in Suva, Fiji, on July 12, 2022.

Over the coming months, PacificAus TV will roll out to other Pacific nations including Vanuatu, Kiribati, Tuvalu, and Nauru.

During the summit, Beijing proposed that the Federated States of Micronesia, the Solomon Islands, Kiribati, Samoa, Fiji, Tonga, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, Niue, and Timor-Leste join it in a new “China-Pacific Island Countries Common Development Vision

Joyce noted that the company expected that a travel bubble to the Pacific Islands, such as Fiji and Vanuatu, would soon open and that it expected the outlook of those flights to positive given the high demand experienced by Qantas for flights to New Zealand

Tsunami Warning System said a tsunami watch was in effect for American Samoa and cited a potential for tsunamis in other regions including Vanuatu, Fiji and New Zealand.

Corruption has plagued the national government, with Erin McKee, the U.S. ambassador to Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu, warning in December against the misuse of aid funding following violent protests that saw the Chinatown precinct in

It will instead transition to a "low-risk" quarantine hotel for a flight-load of seasonal workers expected to arrive from Tonga and Vanuatu next month.

(Courtesy of Massimo Bietti) Bietti’s breathtaking images include children from different corners of the world such as Ethiopia, India, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Russia, South Sudan, Vanuatu, and more.

Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Vanuatu, and Tonga also are under Chinese pressure as Beijing labors to create a sphere of influence in Melanesia and Polynesia.

communique of China's five-year action plan in the Pacific that Beijing is calling its "China-Pacific Island Countries Common Development Vision," was circulated to the leaders of 10 Pacific nations—the Solomon Islands, Kiribati, Samoa, Fiji, Tonga, Vanuatu

"China provides weapons, military vehicles and vessels, uniforms, training, and military buildings" to the armed forces of Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Vanuatu, and now the Solomon Islands, the academic wrote on Twitter.

Countries with less than a million people that have reported no cases include Vanuatu, Tonga, Tuvalu, the Solomon Islands, Samoa, Palau, Kiribati, and Comoros.

Beijing's Foreign Minister Wang Yi has embarked on an eight-nation tour of the South Pacific aimed at shoring up alliances with key leaders that have close ties with Beijing, including the Solomon Islands, Kiribati, Samoa, Fiji, Tonga, Vanuatu, Papua

Meanwhile, the Chinese foreign minister will visit the Solomon Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Samoa, Tonga, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, and Timor Leste from May 26 to June 4.

Fiji, the Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu will also begin to receive doses in the coming weeks.

Fiji, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu will also begin to receive doses in the coming weeks.