Geopolitics
The Shattered Dream: How Great-Power Rivalry is Drowning the Pacific's 'Ocean of Peace'
China's test of a nuclear-capable missile into the Pacific has starkly exposed the deep and painful divisions among Pacific island nations, who have long cherished their region as an 'Ocean of Peace'. This calculated act, timed against the backdrop of new Western alliances, is a brutal manifestation of how the self-serving security games of great powers systematically dismantle the autonomy and collective will of the Global South, turning their home into a strategic battleground.