A rare dispute between New Zealand and Kiribati has renewed focus on the Pacific island nation, highlighting the existential ...

Taneti Maamau denied he had planned to meet with Peters personally. Kiribati has drawn increasingly close to China since severing diplomatic ties to Taiwan in favor of Beijing in 2019.

The incumbent, Taneti Maamau, who has been in office since 2016 ... The question of how much influence Beijing has is not a simple one. Dismay from Australia, New Zealand and the United States ...

President Joe Biden talks with Kiribati's President Taneti Maamau as they stand for a family photo with Pacific Islands Forum leaders at the White House in Washington, in 2023 (AP) Winston Peters ...

However, Ruth Cross Kwansing, a first-time MP who joined President Taneti Maamau's government after ... that could push the island further towards Beijing. However, Kwansing said China had nothing ...

SYDNEY, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) -- Kiribati President Taneti Maamau recently extended warmest holiday greetings and best wishes to the Chinese people ahead of the Spring Festival. In a pre-recorded video ...

New Zealand is reevaluating its development funding to Kiribati following a diplomatic incident where Kiribati President Taneti Maamau canceled a meeting with New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston ...

President Taneti Maamau says news of a strategic deal between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States came as an unwelcome surprise, and he feels island nations in the region should be ...