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Australia and Nauru strike landmark deal
2 weeks, 1 day ago

Australia and Nauru strike landmark deal

ABC  

Samantha Donovan: Australia and Nauru have struck a landmark deal, which will see Canberra funnel about $140 million in budget and security support to the Pacific Island nation. So, that's money for things like assistance in policing, helping Nauru to set up a new national security advisor position and to bolster its security more broadly. Both Australia and Nauru have …

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Nauru gives Australia a veto right over a range of pacts with other nations including China
2 weeks, 1 day ago

Nauru gives Australia a veto right over a range of pacts with other nations including China

Associated Press  

MELBOURNE, Australia — Australia announced a multimillion-dollar agreement with Nauru on Monday that gives Australia a veto right over a range of pacts the tiny Pacific atoll might want to enter with third countries including China. Australia offered 140 million Australian dollars over five years to the remote nation’s population of 12,000 under the treaty to be implemented next year, …

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Tuvalu’s new government commits to continued diplomatic ties with Taiwan instead of Beijing
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Tuvalu’s new government commits to continued diplomatic ties with Taiwan instead of Beijing

Associated Press  

MELBOURNE, Australia — Tuvalu’s new government on Wednesday committed the tiny South Pacific island nation to continued diplomatic ties with Taiwan instead of switching to Beijing, but said it plans to renegotiate a security pact recently struck with Australia in response to China’s growing regional influence. Some candidates proposed scrapping a treaty, yet to be ratified, that would give Australia …

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Nauru’s Geopolitical Clout
10 months ago

Nauru’s Geopolitical Clout

The Diplomat  

The tiny Pacific island nation of Nauru is wielding some serious geopolitical clout at the moment. With a population of just 13,000, a land area comprising of a single 21 square kilometer island, and an oceanic territory of 200 nautical miles, Nauru is currently positioned on several fronts to play a pivotal role in Pacific geopolitical tensions, the hot and …

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Watch | Will rising seas wipe away tiny island countries?
2 years, 2 months ago

Watch | Will rising seas wipe away tiny island countries?

The Hindu  

If rising seas engulf the Maldives and Tuvalu, will those countries be wiped off the map? If warming trends continue, the oceans could rise by nearly one additional meter around the Pacific and the Indian Ocean islands by the end of the century. According to a study cited by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, five nations may become …

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Explained: How the Maldives and other nations might vanish as oceans rise
2 years, 2 months ago

Explained: How the Maldives and other nations might vanish as oceans rise

Firstpost  

If warming trends continue, the oceans could rise by nearly one additional metre around the Pacific and the Indian Ocean islands by the end of the century. “You could have land somewhere, people somewhere else, and government in the third place,” Kamal Amakrane, managing director of the Global Centre for Climate Mobility at Columbia University, told AFP. Amakrane, a former …

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