National security strategies will make the Pacific safer, provided they are realistic, the product of widespread consultation, embedded in the local culture, and effectively implemented, Tim George writes.

India’s progress in Maldives may be good for both countries, but it would do well to recognise that China’s influence in the island republic is going nowhere fast, Balachander Palanisamy writes.

The Pacific COVID-19 response map collects information and sheds light on the Pacific’s response to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, try it out below.

While COVID-19’s economic impact is more dramatic than any other shock in recent history, its consequences for the world order could be far more significant, Deepanshu Mohan writes.

From everyone here at Policy Forum, we would like to take the opportunity to wish you all the very best for the holiday season and a prosperous and safe New Year.

On the regular Policy File we round-up some essential weekend policy reading from around the web. This time around we look at US funding cuts to the UNFPA, Trump's meeting with Xi Jinping, and a deadly chemical attack in Syria.