Commentary The recent election results in the Solomon Islands carry mixed messages for Australia, the United States, and other nations in the Indo-Pacific region. The most obvious positive is that pro-Beijing Prime Minister Manesseh Sogavare is no leader of theRead more https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/meet-the-new-boss-same-as-the-old-boss-5644317
The United States, Australia, and Japan have pledged to promote stability in the Indo-Pacific amid Beijing’s ongoing belligerence in the South and East China Seas. In a May 2 meeting in Hawaii, Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles met with Japanese 
China has achieved a strategic breakout in space, now deploying a vast network of satellites capable of targeting U.S. forces, should a conflict break out between the two nations in the western Pacific, according to the U.S. Space Force’s intelligence chief. 
As May 3 marked World Press Freedom Day, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) released its 2024 World Press Freedom Index. China ranked near the bottom—172nd among 180 countries and regions—while maintaining its title from the previous year as the world’s