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Subject
Strategic competition in the Pacific Islands.
Significance
The United States has extended its concept of an ‘Indo-Pacific region’ to include the Pacific Islands, while Beijing includes them in the Belt and Road Initiative. Strategic competition has arrived in a region long overlooked.
Impacts
Regional states will use China-Taiwan and China-US competition to their own advantage.
New Zealand and Australia are trying to reinvent their role through assistance to combat natural disasters related to climate change.
Japan will play a role in disaster relief too, and is the most likely alternative to China on infrastructure projects.
India has less presence in the region but may have influence with some Pacific Islands with ethnic South Asian populations.
Keywords:
China,
AP,
Pacific,
Vanuatu,
Australia,
Taiwan,
United States,
international relations,
foreign investment,
foreign policy,
military,
security
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2019
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