SEOUL (Korea Herald) — Starting next month, South Korea and Japan will resume flight services between Seoul’s Gimpo and Tokyo’s Haneda airports. Korea Airports Corp. said during its regular briefing Tuesday that it is currently discussing the exact date and immigration procedures with the Japanese…
Clarifying the statement made by United States President Biden regarding the defense of Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin III reiterated the country’s commitment to the “One-China Policy.” At a press briefing on May 23, Secretary Austin told…
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese and U.S. forces have conducted a joint fighter jet flight over the Sea of Japan, Japan’s military said Thursday, in an apparent response to a Russia-China joint bomber flight while U.S. President Joe Biden was in Tokyo. The Japan-U.S. joint flight…
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (Associated Press) — Seven people on two small boats that drifted for days in the Pacific have been rescued after a New Zealand Air Force Orion plane spotted them near the remote island nation of Kiribati. New Zealand’s military said Tuesday that the…
PALIKIR, Pohnpei (PRESS RELEASE) — From May 18th to May 30th , 2022, the Honorable Marcus Samo, Secretary of the Department of Health & Social Affairs, is in Geneva, Switzerland, representing the HealthMinisters from Pacific Island Countries at the 75th World Health Assembly. On May…
Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin could not be any more unequivocal with regards to China’s stand on the Taiwan issue: a big and unemphatic “NO” to independence. In yesterday’s press conference, Wang reiterated China’s intent to stymie a Taiwanese separation and intervention by a third…
China Foreign Ministry has confirmed that the second China-Pacific Island Countries Foreign Ministers’ will be held in Fiji. Spokesperson Wang Wenbin confirmed at a media conference May 24th, “State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi will host the second China-Pacific Island Countries Foreign Ministers’ Meeting…
The launch of a new economic framework involving countries in the Indo-Pacific region on Monday touts an intertwining domestic and foreign policies, strengthening of ties between participating countries, and recalibrating American domestic policy to put the American families front and center of a major economic…
TOKYO (Yomiuri Shimbun) — The U.S.-led Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) was launched Monday, with the pact positioned as an alternative to the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement as part of Washington’s efforts to counter China. Out of consideration for U.S. public opinion, IPEF stops short…
