South Pacific

What’s geopolitically important today.

What's geopolitically important today.

In recent weeks, the Solomon Islands' allegiance to Taiwan appeared shaky as mainland China sought to coax the island nation into its camp. The strategically located Pacific Islands are a soft-power battleground between the U.S. and China; here, we take a closer look at the evolution of aid - a key tool for maintaining allegiances - to these islands between 2011 and 2017.

All the news worth knowing today.

The trade war roller coaster, the economy's other shoe, the offensive against Iran.

All the news worth knowing today.

Australia, normally a net exporter of wheat, has had to import wheat for the first time since 2007.

All the news worth knowing today.

In the past two fragments in this series, I began to lay out the interaction between geography and the development of the United States....