The U.S. has struck a deal with the Cook Islands to help capitalize on the island nation's critical mineral potential.

The end of the liberal world order is a phrase that gets thrown around a lot in conference rooms and university lecture halls ...

The US has entered talks with the Cook Islands to develop seabed mineral resources, just months after the South Pacific nation formalized cooperation pacts with China that included exploration for ...

The behavior of developing countries suggests that they do not see a US-China bipolar world order on the horizon.

A 2016 arbitration ruling on the South China Sea, initiated solely by the Philippines, has failed to resolve regional disputes and instead fueled distrust and conflict over the past nine years, ...

Satellite images reveal alarming scale of China’s military build-up in disputed South China Sea - Latest satellite images of ...

For the first time, a Chinese submarine deployed to the waters off Russia for a five-day joint exercise between the two ...

"It doesn’t shine like gold nor smell like oil, but it’s worth more than both. And the countries that don’t control it will ...

As the global economy continues to rely on oil, gas, and critical minerals, states have increasingly turned to military instruments to secure energy access, protect transit routes, and assert ...

These bombers can launch missiles within range of Australia.""Three of the bases in the Spratly island chain are now capable of landing those bombers, too," he told the ABC.China also controls ...

Compared with China’s more export-oriented eastern and southern coastal regions, the western region has long been regarded as ...

Marine protected areas cover more than 8% of the world's oceans today, but they can get a bad rap as being protected on paper ...