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Not usually at the forefront of geopolitical argy-bargy, the Pacific has recently emerged as a strategic element of securing democracy. A rift threatened to tear apart normally unshakeable regional unity in 2021, with five Micronesian countries threatening to leave the most powerful transnational group, the Pacific Islands Forum. Ahead of…

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Keeping everyone in the tent: the Pacific Islands Forum remains whole

A last-minute agreement has avoided rupture in the Pacific Islands Forum. As the agreement was negotiated, regional strengths and vulnerabilities were revealed.

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The Pacific faces a radioactive future

Japan plans to dump radioactive water from Fukushima into the Pacific Ocean, but its effects on Pacific nations are not clear.

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Expanded, empowered PIF could lock in Pacific security

Amid global political turbulence, the Pacific is a region whose influence is sought by the world’s powers. Regional coordination is as important as ever.

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New Zealand PM says Pacific security issues should be solved locally

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Thursday regional architecture such as the Pacific Islands Forum was critical in resolving regional problems and local security issues should be resolved locally.

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Australia commits to Pacific islands defence training as China seeks rival meeting

Australia will establish a defence school to train Pacific island militaries, Canberra's new Pacific minister said, amid intensifying competition for security ties and as Beijing seeks to host a rival meeting to the main regional group, the Pacific Islands Forum, next month.

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China pushes for Pacific foreign ministers meeting at same time Pacific Islands Forum meets

Beijing is attempting to muscle in on the Pacific's most important high-level gathering, pushing for a meeting with the region's foreign ministers on the same day as another key event.

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NZ involved in new US-led 'Pacific partners' initiative

Joe Biden's top Indo-Pacific official promises more diplomatic posts and teases a new Pacific framework.

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United States and China set to be excluded from Pacific Islands Forum meeting to avoid 'distraction'

The decision by the Pacific's peak diplomatic body to exclude major international powers from a crucial meeting next month will give leaders the opportunity to discuss regional issues without outside pressure.

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Gender Equality in the Pacific: Less Talk and More Action

Pacific women leaders are driving for change, and economic empowerment is key.

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Vanuatu calls on Australia to back its UN bid to recognise climate change harm

Pacific islands urge new Labor government to support push for international court of justice to issue climate advisory opinion

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In the Solomon Islands, Wong takes first tentative steps in repairing a strained relationship

Foreign Minister Penny Wong was no doubt expecting a cooler reception than her three previous visits to the Pacific when she touched down in Honiara last Friday. The Solomon Islands government website had not even listed the Australian minister’s visit – but it did note the first visit of a…

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Pacific Islands Forum should consider China security ties - Samoa PM

China's bid to set up a security pact with Pacific island countries should be considered by a regional forum, the leaders of Samoa and New Zealand said on Tuesday, weeks after the Solomon Islands sparked uproar by signing a deal with China.

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Pacific leaders reach crucial deal to restore political unity, as China’s interest in region accelerates

The agreement, which stops the region’s key diplomatic body, PIF, from splitting, lifts a ‘big dark, dark cloud that has been hanging over the Pacific’

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Pacific leaders strike a deal to keep Micronesian nations from splitting with Pacific Islands Forum

Micronesian leaders abandon demands for the current secretary-general of the Pacific Islands Forum to step down immediately, allowing him to serve out his term until 2024.

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Pacific Islands Forum mend rift as super powers focus on region

Several leaders of Pacific Islands Forum nations met on Tuesday to resolve a dispute over leadership selection that had threatened to split the region's major diplomatic group.

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Pacific Island Forum's leadership crisis comes into focus as leaders arrive in Fiji to resolve tensions

The ABC understands Pacific Island leaders hope to strike an agreement to resolve leadership questions, reform the organisation and allow the forum to stay whole, after last year's threat by Micronesian nations to withdraw.

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Samoa’s PM says China’s expectation of Pacific-wide deal ‘something we could not agree to’

Regional matters must be taken to Pacific Islands Forum, says Fiame Naomi Mata’afa after countries declined deal with Beijing

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Pacific 'front and centre' of priorities

China's position paper on areas of co-operation with Pacific island nations has raised concerns for Australia and its allies, as well as regional leaders.

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Outcry as China stops Pacific journalists questioning Wang Yi

Beijing’s foreign minister signing bilateral deals with leaders but reporters are blocked, sometimes physically, from asking questions

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China to continue pushing for Pacific Island nations to sign regional trade and security agreement

China's government says it remains confident it can strike a sweeping trade and security agreement with 10 Pacific Island states despite being forced to shelve its proposed agreement, but a new position paper walks back previous references on joint policing, free trade and cybersecurity.

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China eyes security pact in talks with Pacific islands in Fiji

China’s top diplomat holds talks with 10 Pacific nations in Fiji to discuss increasing security and economic ties.

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China’s foreign minister tells Pacific leaders ‘don’t be too anxious’ after they reject regional security pact

Several Pacific nations reportedly want to defer action on the draft agreement or have it amended

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Penny Wong tells Pacific nations ‘we have heard you’ as Australia and China battle for influence

Foreign minister uses speech in Fiji to declare ‘this is a different Australian government’ that will act responsibly on climate change

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What deals is China pursuing in the Pacific and why is everyone so worried?

China’s foreign minister is embarking on a grand tour of Pacific nations amid western concerns about Beijing’s ambitions for the region

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